WORKSHOPS

REAL PROBLEMS.
REAL SOLUTIONS.
REAL RESULTS.

Practical workshops for builders, contractors and trades who want to run better, more profitable businesses.

RUNNING A CONSTRUCTION RELATED BUSINESS IS HARD.

You're managing jobs, people, subcontractors and clients — often all at once.
The commercial side can feel like it's always catching up with you: prices that don't quite stack up, jobs that don't make the profit they should, changes that go untracked and unpaid.

CBA Workshops are built for exactly this. Not generic business theory, but practical, focused sessions covering the real issues that small and micro construction related businesses face every day.

Every workshop is designed and delivered by active construction professionals with decades of real world experience. You'll leave with tools, templates and the confidence to put them to work immediately.

WHAT WE COVER

Each workshop is a standalone session focused on a specific topic.
Current and forthcoming workshops include:

◆ Pricing Your Jobs Correctly
Understand how to build a price that covers your costs, reflects your risk and still wins work.
Stop guessing — start pricing with confidence.

◆ Job Set-Up & Site Administration
Get your jobs set up right from day one.
Contract basics, programme awareness, documentation and the commercial controls that protect your margin.

◆ Construction Accounting Fundamentals
Understand your numbers.
Know the difference between turnover and profit, how to read a P&L, and what the figures are actually telling you about your business.

◆ How to Make Profit on Your Jobs
Profit doesn't happen by accident.
Learn how to build it in at the start, track it through the job and protect it at the end.

◆ Tracking Changes & Variations
Changes cost you money if you don't capture them.
Learn how to identify, record and value variations — and how to get paid for them.

WHERE WE MEET

CBA Workshops are delivered at Pippingford Park, a professional training facility set in the heart of the Ashdown Forest, East Sussex. This is not a hotel conference room or a converted office space.

Set in the heart of the Ashdown Forest. It is a calm, focused environment specifically suited to professional development, away from the noise and interruptions of the working week.

If you're going to invest a day in your business, it should feel like an investment.

Location: Pippingford Park, East Sussex Sessions run on Friday afternoons and Saturday mornings

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IS THIS FOR YOU?

CBA WORKSHOPS ARE DESIGNED FOR:

✓  Builders and general contractors running their own businesses

✓  Small and micro civil engineering contractors

✓  Trades who are growing and taking on more complex work

✓  SME business owners who want to sharpen their commercial skills

✓  Anyone in the South East construction industry who wants straight answers to real questions

You don't need a commercial background.
You just need to be serious about improving.

WHAT YOU'LL TAKE AWAY

Every CBA Workshop is practical by design.
You will leave with:

◆ A clear understanding of the topic covered — no jargon, no theory for theory's sake

◆ Practical tools and templates you can use straight away in your business

◆ A reference summary of the session's key points

◆ Access to the CBA community for ongoing questions and support

◆ The confidence that comes from learning from people who have genuinely done it

CBA Workshops are designed and delivered by David Clark FCInstCES MCIOB NECReg Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors, Chartered Construction Manager, and active Commercial Director with a proven track record in construction business turnaround. This is not textbook theory. Everything taught at CBA has been applied at the highest level of the industry.

RESERVE YOUR PLACE

Workshop dates are released on a rolling basis.
Register your interest below and you'll be the first to hear about upcoming sessions, topics and availability.

No commitment required. We'll be in touch with upcoming dates as soon as they're confirmed.

Looking for more focused support?
Our 1-to-1 Coaching and Business MOT services offer a deeper level of personalised engagement for business owners who want to go further.