Apartment & Villa Renovation Dubai — Fixed BOQ, Milestone Payments

A full villa runs as a sequence of rooms rather than one long build. Each room or wing carries its own milestone, its own protection and its own snag list, so payment follows the rooms that are genuinely finished and you keep a working kitchen and bathroom throughout.

Every master developer runs its own approval process, with its own pack, contractor registration and refundable deposit, and none of them accept another’s paperwork. We prepare and submit whichever applies to your community, and the fees sit on the BOQ at cost.

Landscaping, pergolas, external lighting and terrace waterproofing sit in their own BOQ section, because they run on a different sequence to the interior and are the part most often deferred to a later phase. The landscaping page sets out what that section covers and the order the work goes in.

A villa extension in Dubai is quoted separately after a site visit. It needs engineer drawings and authority approval on a timeline the interior work does not share, so folding it into the same lump sum would make both prices unreliable.

Where you are living in the property, each room or wing becomes its own milestone with its own protection and access route. It is a longer programme than emptying the house, and the BOQ prices both routes so the trade-off is yours.

Almost every Dubai tower requires an NOC before work starts, plus the contractor’s trade licence and third-party liability cover naming the building. Management offices stop work on site if any of it is missing. We prepare and submit the pack, and the fees appear at cost.

Material in and debris out both go through a booked service lift, and in most towers the slots are limited and shared with every other unit doing work. Deliveries are sequenced against those bookings, which is a real constraint on the programme.

Many buildings restrict noisy work to Sunday through Thursday, roughly nine to five, with nothing at weekends. Breaking, chasing and core drilling are scheduled inside those windows, and the programme is built on them rather than on an eight-hour day that does not exist here.

A chiller-served apartment has an FCU and a chilled-water loop that belongs partly to the building, so anything touching it needs their sign-off. A split system is entirely yours. Which one you have decides what can be moved, and we establish it on the site visit.