Independent oversight that protects quality, programme, and handover.
If you need experienced support on residential delivery, quality assurance, inspections, contract coordination, site setup, programme planning, logistics strategy, or handover readiness, CPSL gives you practical independent input focused on keeping your project clear, controlled, and moving in the right direction.
Base
St Albans, Hertfordshire
Coverage
London, South East and central Midlands belt
Services
Support designed to make delivery clearer, steadier, and easier to manage.
Whether you need independent project oversight, quality assurance, contract coordination, or a specialist inspection, the focus stays on helping you make better decisions and protect outcomes.
Project management, employer's agent and delivery oversight
You get structured client-side support from pre-construction through to handover, with clearer reporting, stronger programme discipline, consultant coordination, site setup advice, sequence planning, logistics strategy, and practical oversight when a project needs calm, experienced leadership.
Construction quality assurance and inspection services
You get an independent view on workmanship, quality systems, site standards, and emerging risks, helping you identify issues earlier, reduce rework, and approach completion with greater confidence.
Contract preparation and project document coordination
You get better organised contract and project information before commitments are made, including support with employer's requirements, appendices, programme data, and missing or inconsistent documentation. This can also extend, in a measured way, to homeowners who want stronger contract support before appointing a contractor for an extension or rebuild project.
New-build home inspections and post-handover review
Delivered through Callaghan New Homes Inspectors, this service gives buyers and owners a detailed, rigorous, complete home inspection, clearer snagging priorities, and practical reporting they can use with builders or developers.
Recent and current examples
Freeholder monitoring survey on a recladding project
Recent work has included a freeholder monitoring survey on a substantial Building Safety Act recladding project, working closely with a national housing developer and their wider team.
Recent and current examples
JCT contract package preparation
A current instruction involving JCT documentation shows how CPSL can help bring structure, clarity, and readiness to key project information before delivery moves ahead.
Recent and current examples
Support for local SME developers and contractors
Current work on smaller development environments demonstrates the practical value of experienced oversight where a local SME contractor or developer needs quality discipline, clearer coordination, and steady support on site.
Specialist buyer support
Callaghan New Homes Inspectors
If you are buying or moving into a newly built home, there is a dedicated page for independent detailed, rigorous, complete home inspection support, snagging clarity, and action-led reporting.
Who we support
Relevant support across private residential, build-to-rent, student accommodation, and quality-sensitive delivery.
CPSL can step in where you need clearer oversight, stronger quality control, more reliable reporting, or a calmer route through handover and post-completion issues.
Homeowners and buyers who want an independent inspection before or after moving into a newly built home.
Self-build, bespoke residential, build-to-rent, and student accommodation clients who need experienced oversight from planning through to completion.
SME developers who need flexible client-side support on programme, quality, commercial clarity, and handover readiness.
National developers and delivery teams looking for independent quality assurance, reporting discipline, and practical project support.
Funders, landlords, freeholders, investors, and property managers seeking dependable monitoring and clearer delivery visibility.
Contractors and project teams who need stronger design coordination, buildability review, or structured performance improvement.
Why trust CPSL
Experienced oversight backed by recognised professional standing.
The value is not simply years in the industry. It is what that experience helps you achieve: clearer decisions, earlier identification of risk, stronger handover discipline, and more dependable client-side judgement when projects need it most.
Led by Michael Callaghan FCIOB, bringing more than three decades of construction and property experience.
Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building (FCIOB) with a BSc in Construction Management, alongside CIOB Hub Committee involvement that reflects active professional engagement.
Member of the Institute of Directors, with experience across luxury homes, mixed-use developments, remediation, quality assurance, and operational change programmes.
Also active in promoting mental health awareness as a personal professional interest alongside core project delivery work.
Award recognition includes both direct personal awards and experience on award-recognised residential businesses, presented clearly so clients can understand the distinction.
Awards and recognition
Recognition presented accurately, with the right distinction.
Michael Callaghan's track record includes both direct personal awards for project delivery and experience within an award-recognised residential business. The distinction is made clearly so recognition is presented accurately and credibly.
Awarded directly to Michael Callaghan · 2015
Considerate Constructors Most Considerate Runner-Up
Chelsea Creek, Fulham
Awarded directly to Michael Callaghan · 2014
Considerate Constructors Gold Award
London Dock, Wapping
Awarded directly to Michael Callaghan · 2013
Considerate Constructors Silver Award
New Central, Woking
Awarded directly to Michael Callaghan · 2012
NHBC Pride in the Job Excellence Award
New Central, Woking
Company award context · 2017
Build Magazine Best Luxury Home Developer (Home Counties)
This recognition was awarded to Oakbridge Homes, reflecting experience gained within an award-recognised residential business rather than a direct personal award.
What you gain
Independent input on quality, coordination, documentation, handover, and delivery risk.
The aim is to help you see issues sooner, ask better questions, and move forward with a clearer basis for decisions.
Flexible delivery model
If your brief needs broader input, CPSL can bring in a trusted network of fellow consultants so you gain the right specialist support without losing direct senior oversight.
What working with CPSL helps you do
Stronger project control, clearer reporting, and more confidence in the next decision.
These are the areas clients often need support with when a project becomes more exposed, more complicated, or more demanding than internal resource can comfortably absorb.
Clarity when projects feel exposed
CPSL helps you bring order to projects that need stronger coordination, clearer accountability, or more disciplined reporting. Support can start before construction, during live delivery, at handover, or when problems need resolving after completion.
Earlier identification of quality and compliance risk
You benefit from an experienced eye on workmanship, snagging, practical completion readiness, aftercare, and compliance-sensitive issues, helping you address concerns before they become more disruptive, expensive, or reputationally damaging.
Commercially aware decision support
Advice is shaped around real delivery pressures, including programme, contractor coordination, documentation quality, cost sensitivity, and the practical decisions needed to keep momentum without lowering standards.
Access to wider capability when required
Where your brief calls for broader specialist input, CPSL can coordinate a trusted consultant network so you retain a single, senior point of oversight while still expanding delivery capability in a measured way.
Capability
Practical support that connects strategic oversight with live delivery detail.
The service is not limited to high-level advice. It is grounded in the day-to-day issues that affect build quality, handover readiness, stakeholder confidence, and operational performance.
Project and programme leadership
Contract administration and employer's agent duties
Quality inspections, snagging, and handover readiness
Site setup planning, project sequencing, and practical logistics strategy
Technical coordination, surveying awareness, and design team management
Value engineering, delivery recovery, and practical problem-solving
Client reporting, governance, and high-expectation stakeholder communication
Operational improvement, maintenance planning, and aftercare performance
What clients say
Recent client feedback shown in a straightforward testimonial format.
These quotations reflect recent instructions and are presented as approved examples of what clients have said about working with CPSL and Callaghan New Homes Inspectors.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
“CPSL really helped us understand the project risks from the outset and provided professional and clear guidance on mitigating and controlling these. We will certainly be reaching out to Michael on our next project.”
Kevin Edge
Project risk and delivery guidance
Summer 2025
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
“We have engaged with CPSL to help monitor the quality and overall progress on a significant project in Surrey. Michael has a fantastic skill set reviewing the legal framework and continuing to ensure the contractors deliver a quality project.”
Façade Consultant
Quality and progress monitoring
Jan 2026
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
“Michael communicates well throughout our interactions. He thoroughly reviewed the quality of our new build house and found many issues we had not noticed. He is a very polite and trustworthy guy. We would highly recommend Callaghan New Home Inspections.”
Mr & Mrs G
Independent home inspection
Mar 2026
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Based in St Albans, Hertfordshire, Callaghan Project Services Ltd supports clients across London, the South East, and the central Midlands belt of England. Whether you need a one-off review, a specialist inspection, or broader strategic project oversight, the contact form helps CPSL understand your brief and respond more effectively.
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