Al Yasmin Villas, Phase 2

The challenge

The site fell nine metres across its length and the masterplan gave every villa its own finished floor level. Eleven house types across eighty-six plots meant almost no two adjacent villas shared a foundation detail.

Our approach

Rather than treat each villa as a one-off, we grouped the plots into fourteen level bands and standardised the substructure within each band. That turned eighty-six bespoke foundation designs into fourteen, and let one gang work continuously instead of resetting daily.

Every villa was set out from a single site-wide control network rather than from its neighbour, so the nine-metre fall never accumulated into a tolerance problem at the far end of the site.

The outcome

Delivered in twenty-four months against a twenty-seven month programme. Handover defects averaged four items per villa, against a regional norm closer to twenty.