VOLOCO LLP

VOLOCO LLP Contractor and developer support services for the construction industry This approach will add value and support you with your construction project.

VOLOCO LLP provide flexible and responsive commercial consulting, quantity surveying and project management solutions to the constructing industry. We recognise the cyclical nature of the construction industry and the need for those involved to be responsive to the changing demands on its resources. With this in mind, we provide bespoke Quantity Surveying, Commercial Support, Cost Management, Cont

ractual and Project Management Services tailored to meet the needs of our construction industry clients. We provide support throughout all stages of the construction process from pre-development to post-contract, across all sectors including Commercial, Residential, Healthcare, Education, Leisure and Retail to both Main Contractors and Sub-Contractors. Our core values of professionalism and integrity run throughout each personally managed commission. We aim to provide a market leading bespoke service with dedication to detail combined with decisive action.

This month's VOLOCO Construction Consulting photo challenge asked: If you weren't working in construction, what would yo...
27/07/2026

This month's VOLOCO Construction Consulting photo challenge asked: If you weren't working in construction, what would you be doing instead?

The answers were as varied as our projects.

From classic car restoration and becoming a British Mountain Guide to careers in sport, law, policing, design, and marketing, there was no shortage of ambition.

Some choices reflected lifelong hobbies, others childhood ambitions, and a few are careers we'd still happily swap into tomorrow.

Thankfully for our clients, everyone found their way into construction consultancy instead.

What would your alternative career have been?

Retention is your money. So why does so much of it never find its way back to you?Plenty of contractors could not tell y...
24/07/2026

Retention is your money. So why does so much of it never find its way back to you?

Plenty of contractors could not tell you how much retention they are owed, or when it is due for release. Not because they do not care. Because there is no system watching it. The job finishes, everyone moves on to the next one, and that final slice of profit just sits with the client, quietly forgotten.

Retention rarely disappears because someone refuses to pay it. It disappears because nobody chased it. No diary date for the release, no reminder when the defects period ends, no letter when it falls due meaning may projects end up with a loss they should not suffer.

It is money already earned. No contractor should have to fight for it and certainly should not be leaving it unclaimed by accident.

If you are not certain what retention you are owed right now, or when it is due, that on its own is worth a conversation.

Book a free 30 minute discovery call here: https://book.voloco.co.uk/discovery-call

You build. We support.

The BBC highlights the recent upturn in empty housing in the Bristol region.This may be a trend around the UK in other l...
22/07/2026

The BBC highlights the recent upturn in empty housing in the Bristol region.

This may be a trend around the UK in other large cities and it is interesting to understand what the social and economic drivers are that create this upward path currently.

At the same time, there are regular reports of planners considering changing green belt land to grey belt to wave through new house building, which always causes negative feedback from green belt campaigners and locals unhappy with the decision.

Perhaps there should be more tax relief mechanisms to persuade and encourage empty building owners to develop and reintroduce them back into the market. What else could we do?

Here's the part that should worry you. Most of them weren't bad builders.The firms that go down are rarely doing poor wo...
17/07/2026

Here's the part that should worry you. Most of them weren't bad builders.

The firms that go down are rarely doing poor work on site. They're doing good work on bad contracts.

A price that didn't stack up. Terms nobody read properly. A payment schedule that left them funding the job out of their own pocket. Variations carried out and never paid for, because the contract didn't entitle them to a penny.

By the time the cash flow problem shows up, it's already too late. The problem was baked in months earlier, the day they signed.

You can be the best trade firm in your region and still go under if the commercial side is wrong. The site work keeps you busy. The contract keeps you in business.

Read what you sign. Price what it actually costs. Know exactly how and when you get paid. It's not glamorous, but it's the difference between being on that list next year and staying off it.

The most interesting part of Cardiff's latest regeneration plans isn't what's being built. It's what's not being built.T...
15/07/2026

The most interesting part of Cardiff's latest regeneration plans isn't what's being built. It's what's not being built.

The plans for Queen's Arcade are centred on refurbishment rather than replacement. Restoring the frontage, creating new restaurant space and updating an existing shopping destination to give people another reason to spend time in the city centre.

Projects like these often bring a different set of challenges. You're not working on a blank canvas. Existing buildings always have a few surprises hidden behind the walls, neighbouring businesses still need to trade and the programme doesn't become any more forgiving just because the work is more complicated.

It's during those moments that instructions change, additional work appears and contractors can find themselves absorbing costs simply to keep the project moving.

That's exactly the point where commercial management becomes critical, helping contractors protect their position while the work is happening rather than trying to recover it once the project has finished.

Time will tell how the transformation unfolds, but it's certainly another example of the growing focus on making existing assets work harder.

🔗https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceqdeev0dyyo

We came in with the Bouygues UK team during preconstruction on package pricing, and were brought back post contract to s...
13/07/2026

We came in with the Bouygues UK team during preconstruction on package pricing, and were brought back post contract to support package management once the site was live.

That is the setup we like to see. On plenty of jobs the people who price the packages are not the people who manage them once site starts, and everything built up during preconstruction gets lost in the gap. What was intended, where the risks sat, why a number was what it was.

That gap is where margin erosion can occur, because nobody is joining the dots between what was priced and what gets built.

Carrying the same understanding through from pricing to delivery keeps all of that in the room. It is why continuity is worth protecting on any project.

🔗https://www.voloco.co.uk/case-studies/upp-west-park-exeter/

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Turnover up. Money in the bank flat. Sound familiar?Plenty of contractors are busier than they have ever been and still ...
10/07/2026

Turnover up. Money in the bank flat. Sound familiar?

Plenty of contractors are busier than they have ever been and still feel skint. The work is there, the invoices go out, and somehow the bank balance never reflects how hard you are running. It is one of the most demoralising things in this trade. Working flat out and still chasing your own money.

Here is the thing most people miss. The problem is rarely the amount you are owed. It is the timing. Applications going in late or going in light because nobody had time to value the work properly. Payment terms that nobody up the chain feels any pressure to honour. Retention held months past the date it should have been released. Put it together and you end up funding the entire job, while everyone above you sits comfortably on your cash.

And late payment is not just an inconvenience. It is the single biggest killer of building firms. Profitable companies go under not because the work dried up, but because the money came in too slowly to pay the people and suppliers keeping them going.

Cash flow is not luck and it is not about who shouts loudest. It is process. Applications in on time and in full. The right notices served. Retention diarised and chased the day it falls due. Done properly, the exact same turnover puts a lot more money in your account, a lot sooner.

That is what we do at VOLOCO. Twelve years getting contractors paid faster and getting paid in full.

If your cash flow does not match your workload, it is worth a straight conversation. No hard sell.

Book a free 30 minute discovery call here: https://book.voloco.co.uk/discovery-call

You build. We support.

With the 2026 World Cup in full flow, an interesting read on the Viva Mundo project in Portugal. A €450m football theme ...
08/07/2026

With the 2026 World Cup in full flow, an interesting read on the Viva Mundo project in Portugal. A €450m football theme park due to open when Portugal co-hosts the 2030 World Cup with Spain and Morocco.

The team delivering it are deliberately not treating design, procurement and construction as three separate boxes, but coordinating them during the design stage before construction starts in February 2027.

All too often the opposite happens. A project price gets signed off, a start date gets agreed, and the scope is still half guesswork. Those gaps do not vanish. They turn up later as variations, delays and disputes over who pays.

You do not need a mega project budget to work the sensible way round. The order is the same on a house extension as it is on a theme park. Understand what you are delivering, then commit to the number.

🔗https://www.globalconstructionreview.com/interview-how-will-portugal-deliver-the-worlds-first-football-theme-park/

This month has been about two things we don't take for granted: continuing to support long-standing clients, and having ...
06/07/2026

This month has been about two things we don't take for granted: continuing to support long-standing clients, and having past clients come back to us on new projects.

▪️ VOLOCO continues to provide Quantity Surveying support to our long-term client, Wyatt & Sons Fencing Ltd. A recent highlight has been the delivery of the new animal enclosures at Longleat, including the impressive Painted Dogs enclosure.

▪️ We were glad to welcome Ingenium Civil Engineering back this month, and we've continued supporting Beard Construction at Hertford College, Oxford. The project is moving at pace, with the remaining basement slab, walls and piers now poured, preparations underway for the ground floor slab, and temporary works removal in progress.

▪️ Following the successful Isambard AI project last year, Oakland Construction has once again appointed VOLOCO for Quantity Surveying support, this time on the Aurora Linemere School project in Backwell.

Much of our work comes from repeat business and referrals. When a client comes back to VOLOCO, they're not hiring an individual, they're trusting the standard we deliver as a team. We don't take that trust for granted, and we're grateful to every client who keeps choosing to work with us.

If you're looking for additional commercial, bid or design management support, we'd be happy to discuss how we can help.

Find out more: www.voloco.co.uk

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