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Here’s something that doesn’t get said enough: most fit-out budgets in Dubai don’t get blown by bad contractors. They get blown by good contractors working off bad information — drawings that weren’t coordinated with site conditions, specs that changed three times before anyone picked up a tool, design decisions made by people who weren’t around when the problems showed up.
I’ve had enough post-project debriefs with developers and corporate real estate teams to know how it usually goes. The original budget looked…