Plans nobody commits to
A three-month schedule doesn't tell a foreman what to finish this week — or ask why it wasn't.
Product · Construction PM
Construction project controls, from the P6 schedule to the daily report
Import the schedule from Primavera P6, pull a look-ahead, commit weekly work plans and measure PPC. Record daily progress, clear constraints before they stop a workfront, and watch manpower, productivity and materials against plan.
Why it matters
The schedule says one thing. The site does another.
Most project-controls systems stop at the schedule. The slippage happens in the week between the plan and the work.
Constraints found on the day
Missing drawings, materials and permits are discovered when the crew is already standing there.
Progress reports that don't add up
Daily reports on paper can't be totalled, trended or tied back to the schedule.
Capabilities
What Project Controls does
Schedule and WBS
- A WBS tree with weight validation and Excel import, and work packages beneath it
- Primavera P6 schedules imported and exported as XER files
- A look-ahead window you set (three weeks by default) and the critical path from the P6 schedule
- Activity progress updates, earned value per measurement and a project S-curve
Last Planner
- Look-ahead generation and weekly work plans
- PPC by week, with reasons for non-completion and their trend
- Unfinished work carried forward
- Daily plans generated from the weekly plan, with a daily PPC
Daily progress
- One daily progress report per site per day, with manpower by trade — own staff and subcontractors
- Draft, submitted, approved or rejected — with a PDF
- A late-report check, cumulative manpower, and materials pulled in from goods receipts
- A method statement register with submission and review
Constraints, workfronts and resources
- A constraint register — close, reopen or convert to an issue — with a CSV export
- Workfronts with a readiness checklist and score, released or released with a waiver
- Manpower plans with histogram and S-curve, equipment plan against actual, productivity norms and trend
- Material reservations, shortages and quantity reconciliation from progress
- Issue, interface and re-baseline registers, and a controls dashboard with an eight-week PPC chart
How it works
From the P6 schedule to this week's work
1
Import
Bring the schedule in from Primavera P6 as an XER file.
2
Look ahead
Pull the next weeks' activities into a look-ahead.
3
Commit
Agree the weekly work plan with the people doing it.
4
Record
Daily plans and daily progress reports from site.
5
Close
Tasks closed — or not, with the reason why.
6
Learn
PPC and its reasons trended on the controls dashboard.
Outputs
What comes out of it
- PDF: daily progress report
- XER: schedule export to Primavera P6
- CSV: constraints, weekly plans, look-ahead, issues, interfaces and quantities
Connected
Part of one project record
Questions
Construction PM — common questions
Yes, for scheduling. BuildCore imports the P6 schedule as an XER file, works from its critical path, and exports back to XER; planning stays in P6.
Percent Plan Complete — the share of committed weekly tasks actually finished. BuildCore tracks it by week and by day, with the reasons for anything not completed.
Yes. Each site submits one report per day, with manpower by trade, for approval; approved reports print as PDFs, and late reports are flagged.
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