For far too many homeowners, it is a catastrophic, painful lesson, it is exactly what happens when the wrong people get involved too early. The reality: Building in London has become dramatically more expensive. When real costs skyrocket faster than the public’s understanding of them, a massive gap opens up. And that gap is instantly filled by bad advice, completely unrealistic budgets, terrible tender documents, and cowboy builders. If you are planning an extension, a loft conversion, or a...

It's totally stupid to be stressed about opportunity! Success very often leads to more stress for most people , and pretty soon they're achieving things, and instead of experiencing the joy they wanted, they've got more of a to-do list, more things they got to manage, more things they got to take on. It certainly has been the case for me in my business. I mean, I give you an example. When you have more than one business, more people in teams, more clients, more projects all these different...

Every industry has those moments where the drawings look tidy, but reality gets messy. Somewhere between “by others and this bit by others,” the real work starts to disappear into the gaps between teams. That was the spark for Richard Keys when working in a large architectural company and a whole new way of thinking about architecture that treats risk, scope, and delivery as first-class problems, because the question remained, who's actually going to do this? In this Podcast ( 1:23 min ) I...