Margin is not cash. Revenue is not value. A project can show accounting profit and still destroy the company — if its return on capital falls below what that capital costs to carry.
The problem we solve
Contractors chase turnover and headline margin, then wonder why growth doesn’t turn into cash. The reason is usually cost and capital discipline — overheads that creep, project costs not tracked against budget in real time, and capital tied up so long that a 12% margin job earns less than it costs to finance.
What’s included
- Budget vs actual tracking — live, project-by-project cost control.
- Overhead & project cost reduction — cutting what erodes margin without starving the work.
- Margin protection — stopping the priced margin leaking through scope creep.
- Return on capital employed — measuring each project against your cost of capital.
Margin is not cash. Revenue is not value. A profitable project is not automatically a good project.
One AED 28M job at 12% margin tied up AED 11M of working capital for 19 months — carrying it cost about AED 1.9M, below the cost of capital. We declined Phase 2 and redeployed to jobs with a third of the capital and double the return.
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