Where the project stands
Structure is topped out across all three blocks and the site has moved into the finishing phase — block work complete, plastering following a block behind, and the first-floor units opened up for electrical and plumbing rough-in. The tower crane comes down next month, which is always the point at which a site starts to look finished to everyone except the people building it.
Fifty units is a different kind of problem
A single villa is a sequencing problem you can hold in your head. Fifty units is a logistics problem. The same trade has to move through the same sequence fifty times without colliding with the trade in front of it, and a two-day slip in one unit compounds quickly if nobody catches it.
What keeps it on track is unglamorous: a weekly look-ahead that names which units each crew is in, a snag list closed out unit by unit rather than at the end, and a materials schedule that has tiles on site before the screed is ready rather than after.
Decisions we are glad we made early
- Standardising on two bathroom layouts across all fifty units, which turned plumbing from fifty problems into two.
- Building a full sample unit before starting the others — every disagreement about finish level got resolved in one room instead of fifty.
- Running the electrical conduit survey before plastering, which caught eleven misplaced boxes while they were still cheap to move.
Next on site
Flooring begins in the first block once plastering is signed off, followed by joinery installation. The landscape and common-area work starts in parallel, which is deliberate: it is the part most often left until the end, and the part residents judge the development by on the day they move in.