Helen Muir
Programme reading, walkdowns, and the progress curve. Former contractor planner.
About
A small reporting desk that still walks the job.
System Craftline started because monthly construction meetings were being run from a single progress percentage and a folder of unlabelled photographs. We write construction project progress and budget variance analytics as packs a contract administrator can file.
Origin
Helen Muir spent a decade as a planner on housing and education jobs across the Highlands and Grampian. The accepted programme was often clear; the monthly story told to the client was not. James Calder came from a commercial background, tired of preliminaries lines that could not be explained in a room. They opened the Friar Street desk so contractors could send documents on a Monday and walk into a Thursday meeting with a numbered pack.
How we work
We take the contract documents you already use. We do not replace your planner or your QS. A pack is a reading of progress and cost against those documents, with photographs and sources on the page. If the diary and the programme disagree, both dates stay visible.
United Kingdom setting
Weather, winter working, and long travel to Highland sites shape our calendars. We build walkdown dates around induction slots and ferry or road time, and we use published weather records when a delay chronology needs them. English and Scots contract forms both appear in the jobs we see; we follow the measurement rules in the papers you send.
People
James Calder
Budget variance sheets and cost-code legends. Former commercial manager.
Priya Shah
Delay timelines and source lists from correspondence and diaries.
What we will not do
We will not certify a valuation, rewrite your accepted programme, or appear as an expert witness under these engagements. Those are different appointments with different duties. If a job needs them, we will say so and step back.