What is falsework, and why we are named after it
The frame that holds up an arch while it is built and is removed once it stands on its own. Types, standards and the origin of our name.
Read the guidePaying for construction without having to trust anyone
Guides for whoever pays and whoever gets paid: how work is certified, where the money sits in the meantime and what it takes for every payment to depend on progress, not on trust.
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If you build or develop
Getting paid by progress certificate without waiting on anyone’s cash flow.
Average payment period in Spanish construction: 2025 data
96.5 days at the end of 2025, the longest period of any sector. Five years of data, with their source.
How to get paid for a progress certificate without waiting 90 days
Where the days go, what the law guarantees you and the one lever that shortens the long stretches.
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CostPact7 min
How to verify construction progress before you pay
The four pieces of data that turn a photo into evidence, and why verification needs two independent reviews.
PactStreamCostPact8 min
Milestone payments in construction: how they work and how you get paid
How to structure a project by milestones and get paid within 24 hours of progress being certified.
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FiscalCore4 min
Construction escrow: what an escrow account is
How a regulated escrow account works and how it differs from paying in advance or against an invoice.
PactStream3 min
How to protect the advance payment without delaying the start
The one payment that can’t be certified, and how to back it with a surety bond and an escrow account.
PactStreamCostPact3 min
Project taxes in Spain
What a construction company files every quarter.
If you’re building or renovating your home
Make sure every euro you pay has work behind it.
Self-build: building your home without losing your money
How to protect each payment so it only moves forward when construction does.
PactStreamCostPact3 min
Whole-home renovation without risk: pay for what’s done
The advance payment and the budget that keeps growing, and how to pay against certified progress.
PactStreamCostPact3 min
Construction
Construction concepts, explained without jargon.
If you’re comparing solutions
What each one covers, no fine print.
Construction progress certificate software: how to choose in 2026
Four types of tool, what each one covers according to its website and what to ask before you decide.
Fintiq alternative: a comparison with Cimbrium
Payment governance versus a full cycle with AI verification, a regulated account and taxes.
Procore alternative: project management or the money cycle
Project management in both; in Cimbrium, also escrow, payment against progress, taxes and after-sales.
The guides explain the method. The ecosystem runs it.
Budget, escrow, verification and taxes in a single cycle, so that trust between the parties stops being the condition for every payment.