Progress, photos and site logs

Progress in Nuvailo is a quantity against a line, not a percentage someone estimated in a meeting. The project percentage is then derived, weighted by value, so a completed 40 percent of the value counts as 40 percent rather than 40 percent of the line count.

Recording progress

1. 1

   Pick the line

   Search by code or description. Recently used lines appear first, because a crew usually works the same lines for days.

2. 2

   Enter quantity completed today

   Cumulative is calculated for you. Entering today figure is less error-prone than maintaining a running total.

3. 3

   Attach photos

   Taken in the app so they carry the date, project and line automatically.

4. 4

   Add a note if something is unusual

   Weather stoppage, access blocked, an instruction received on site. These notes are what a delay claim is later built from.

Photos that are worth having

• Take them in the app rather than the camera roll, so metadata and the line link are attached automatically.
• One wide shot for context, one close shot for the detail. Two photos per entry beats twenty per week in an album.
• Photograph problems immediately: damage, poor materials delivered, unsafe conditions. The date is the value.
• Photograph delivery dockets at the gate, not at the office three weeks later.

Using progress for valuations

At valuation time the quantities are already recorded per line with their dates, so the claim is a report rather than a reconstruction. When a client queries a line, open it and the evidence for those days is attached.