The Pub Test

Does your advice stand up to Friday arvo beers?

We’ve seen it 67 times (that one’s for my teenage daughter, sorry).

A highly intelligent, technically perfect Claim lands on a Project Manager’s desk. It cites the correct clauses. It adheres to time bars. It’s a Dickens-worthy masterpiece of legal drafting.

And it absolutely destroys your relationship with the client.

Why? Because it doesn’t pass "The Pub Test."

It sounds like a lawyer wrote it. It smells like a lawsuit. And in the construction game, where relationships are the grease keeping the wheels turning, that can be fatal to the project (and your client's long-term commercial interests).

This is where a Bench Warmer adds value to your commercial team.

We take your technically correct advice and we "site-proof" it. We adjust the tone. We check the phrasing. We ensure that when the Superintendent reads it, they don't immediately reach for their own lawyers, they get on the phone to sort it out.

We help you deliver the hard news in a way that keeps the job moving, dumbing down the overly complex and combining the technical with the commercial.

Your commercial strategy remains the same. We just make sure the delivery doesn't get your client a black eye at the next site meeting.

Need a hand with the delivery? Call up a Bench Warmer from The Bench.