Construction Β· Daily Reports
Know by 8am if today's plan is at risk. Most daily logs are filing cabinets β a site diary nobody reads until a claim. Here, every DPR line is tagged to a schedule activity, so the Daily Brief can compare the crew you planned with the crew that showed up, and tell you what it means for the finish date.
File the DPR
The site engineer records weather, a summary, labour by gang and trade, plant run and idle hours, and material received and consumed.
Tag to the schedule
Labour lines are tagged to schedule activities, and % complete flows from the DPR to the programme.
Submit and lock
A submitted DPR becomes a locked record β a defensible daily log for the project file.
Read the Daily Brief
Activities meant to be live today, planned crew vs labour actually present, and shortfalls flagged with their impact.
Re-plan in one click
If critical work is starved, reschedule from today to see the revised finish and slip vs baseline β then act.
Daily progress reports aren't free text β labour lines carry an activity tag, so the system knows who worked on what. Progress recorded in the field updates the schedule the planner runs.
Every morning: which activities should be live today per the CPM dates, the planned crew for each, and who is actually present from DPRs and attendance. A shortfall on a critical activity is flagged as project-finish risk; on non-critical work, the brief shows how much float can absorb it.
From the brief, reschedule from today's data date to get the revised completion date and newly-critical activities β or re-sequence: push the starved activity and pull forward one with labour available. Productivity and utilisation build up as a by-product.
Whether you call it a daily log, a site diary or a DPR, it's the input to a control loop β not a filing exercise.
DPRs tagged to the programme, a Daily Brief every morning, and a re-plan one click away.