A road through hard ground.
Every practice runs its jobs through the same stages, and every practice has had a job go into Stage 4 with something from Stage 2 still unsigned: the client’s sign-off on a decision that was costly to undo, or a consultant’s report that never arrived.
The stages are not paperwork. They are the points where it is still cheap to find out.
Stage after stage, with its gates
Every job has its route, stage after stage, each with its gate checks to clear before it is signed off. Nolliworks shows where each job has got to, what is in the way, and what rests on any one thing if it changes.
The practice overview has every job on one line: its stage, how it stands in a word or two, and the few things that genuinely need somebody. The volume lives on each job’s own pages, never there.
Decisions, kept with their reasons
A decision made at a meeting is recorded there: what was decided, and how easily it could be undone. Decisions that are costly or cannot be undone need the client’s sign-off before the Stage 2 and 3 gates. Each one takes the job’s next number and traces back to where it was made.
What could cost the job time, money or quality is flagged as it is noticed, and kept on the job’s risk register, scored for likelihood and impact, with an owner, a response and a date to look at it again.
Higher-risk buildings
A job can be marked as a higher-risk building under the Building Safety Act 2022, and its stages then carry the gateway work as well: the principal designer and designers’ competence at Stage 2, the Gateway 1 fire statement at Stage 3, the Gateway 2 application at Stage 4, which does not pass until the regulator’s approval is recorded, change control and the golden thread at Stage 5, and Gateway 3 at Stage 6.
In the small print
- Gate checks on every stage before it is signed off
- Decision numbers (D-041) traced back to the meeting they came from
- Risks numbered R-001 and never reused
- Meeting agendas and minutes as PDFs, actions with owners and dates
- Each job beside earlier jobs that came through the same stage
- Your own workflows, drawn with their steps and who takes them
Questions practices ask
- Does Nolliworks follow the RIBA Plan of Work?
Yes. Jobs move through the RIBA stages, each with gate checks to clear before it is signed off. A practice can also draw its own workflows, with their steps, their decisions and who takes them.
- Does it support the Building Safety Act gateways?
A job can be marked as a higher-risk building. Its stages then carry the gateway work, from the principal designer at Stage 2 to the Gateway 3 completion certificate at Stage 6.
- Is there a risk register for each job?
Yes. Each risk has a cause, an effect, likelihood and impact scored from 1 to 5, an owner, a response and its next review. The register can be switched off if a practice prefers simple watchpoints.