Bali Villa Construction Process

Here are 6 Bali villa construction process steps should take to protect your interests if you are planning or starting a building project in Bali:

1. Choose a proper team. Before anything can begin you should most definitely find a good lawyer, a great architect, an Indonesian qualification having structural engineer, a proper project manager and finally good building team. All these people are to be qualified experts whose past work you should look into.
2. Also, note that your legal experts should be local Indonesian who have legal legitimacy that could be required at a later stage in a court of law as foreigners aren’t recognized as qualified there. So just be safe, in case something goes wrong just have a local law expert. We noticed that foreigners who are offering themselves to perform all sorts of jobs have a much higher chance of scamming you than local people. Keep everything professional  throughout the hole Bali villa construction process and all will go well.
3. Make sure that the project’s legal documents are proper before starting to draw plans and prepare bills of quantities. Break the project into timelines with appropriate tasks so that you can keep a track of it all. If your architect prepares the drawings make sure that they are indeed his and what would be the exact cost. Also ask the builder for an exact bill of quantities (a quantity surveyor should overlook it).
4. Always have some extra money in case something comes up or you decide that you wish to make some changes in the plan.
5. Understand that your builder should make a fair profit. If you negotiate to a very small price you and your project will suffer from poor quality. A quantity surveyor should provide you with the proper opinion of your spending.
6. All stages of the construction should be inspected and supervised by independent parties. The correct person to inspect the structure should not be an architect, not a foreman, and not a builder but a structural engineer as only he is qualified to make difficult structural calculations.

All points above are merely general guidelines on how to properly carry out a project in Bali. Only a lawyer and appropriate qualifies Don’t hesitate to reach out to us for guidance.