Between town planning approval and Foundation Complete, a Nexus project moves through five distinct stages. Each carries its own risks, its own trades, and its own decision points. Here is the operating discipline behind the milestones the marketing feed later celebrates.

Stage 1 — Documentation lock

Approved-drawings become for-construction drawings. Every specification tightens. Every provisional item gets priced. This stage is where most program overruns are prevented — or created.

Stage 2 — Contractor procurement and program

Head contractor engaged, subcontractor packages tendered, program locked with critical-path milestones. Nexus Project Management typically sits over this stage regardless of which vertical the project belongs to.

Stage 3 — Site establishment

Site secure, hoardings up, service disconnections, first excavation. The moment the neighbourhood realises a build is really happening.

Stage 4 — Retention and excavation

For basement projects like Brighton, this is a stage of its own. For slab-on-ground projects like Lune Black Rock, retention is minor and the phase compresses. For land estates, this stage is site earthworks — a different discipline.

Stage 5 — Foundation and slab

Structural foundations poured, slab formed, waterproofing integrated. Foundation Complete is the milestone that turns a design into a physical building. Vertical construction begins next.

The milestone is the visible tip. The five stages are what actually took the time.

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