Project record

The paperwork that settles the argument

A superseded drawing is the most expensive piece of paper on a site. Photographs taken on a phone and never filed are worth nothing when a defect is disputed two years later.

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Drawings, photographs and correspondence, with the job

A superseded drawing is the most expensive piece of paper on a site. Photographs taken on a phone and never filed are worth nothing when a defect is disputed.

QScope keeps plans, site photographs, contracts and correspondence against the project they belong to, so the file is assembled as you go rather than the week before an adjudication.

  • Drawings versioned as they are superseded
  • Photographs tied to the project and the date they were taken
  • Contracts and correspondence filed against the job
  • Everything exportable, so leaving QScope never means losing the record
Files and plans
Project record
DocumentStatus
Contract, JCT SBC 2016, signedCurrent
Drawing A-102 rev C, gable elevationCurrent
Drawing A-102 rev BSuperseded
Site photographs, week 1418 files

The file assembles itself as you go

Nobody sets out to reconstruct a project file the week before an adjudication. It happens because the record was never kept in one place while the job was running.

Filing against the project as you work costs seconds. Reconstructing it afterwards costs days, and the parts you cannot find are the parts that mattered.

  • Everything filed against the project it belongs to, not a shared drive
  • Guests can add photographs and files where you allow it, recorded against them
  • The audit trail records who filed what and when
  • Export everything at any time, so leaving QScope never means losing the record
Files
Project record
DocumentStatus
Contract, JCT SBC 2016, signedCurrent
Drawing A-102 rev C, gable elevationCurrent
Drawing A-102 rev BSuperseded
Site photographs, week 1418 files
Correspondence, delay notice 4 AugFiled

Who filed it, and when

A drawing is only evidence if you can show which version was current on the day the work was done. The file answers what. The audit trail answers when, and by whom.

Every upload, supersession and deletion is recorded automatically against the surveyor or guest who made it, and nothing in the interface can amend the entry.

  • Every file added, superseded or removed recorded automatically
  • The surveyor or guest who filed it named on the entry
  • Old and new status held when a drawing is superseded
  • Export the trail to CSV for a bundle or a client file
Audit trail
11 Essex Road
DetailUserType
Drawing A-102 rev C uploaded, rev B supersededAdrianFile
Site photographs week 14 added, 18 filesA. WilsonGuest
Contract JCT SBC 2016 filed, signedAdrianFile
Delay notice 4 Aug filedR. HallFiled

The question that produced the revision

A drawing revision usually starts as a question. The RFI records when it was asked and when it was answered, which is what turns a delay into an entitlement, or fails to.

Kept beside the drawings and photographs, the RFI and the revision it produced sit on the same project rather than in two systems that lose sight of each other.

  • Question, who it was raised with, and the date raised
  • Answer and the date it was given
  • Days outstanding counted from today, not from memory
  • Guests can raise and answer where you allow it
RFIs
Outstanding on this project
QuestionRaisedStatus
Confirm lintel spec over new opening4 AugOpen 16 d
Drainage invert level at MH311 AugOpen 9 d
Finish to exposed soffit2 AugAnswered
Open on this project2

The instruction behind the revised drawing

A revised drawing that changes the cost of the works needs an instruction behind it. Without one the change was done, and it will not reach the final account because nothing connects it to a valuation.

The instruction register sits with the drawings, so the authority and the document it changed are filed against the same project.

  • Every instruction in the order it was given
  • Instructions with a cost effect and no variation flagged in red
  • Verbal instructions awaiting written confirmation flagged in amber
  • Linked to the variation the instruction authorised, both ways
Instructions
Register
Instructions
24
Unconfirmed
2
No variation
3
AI-018 · Revised door scheduleVariation VO-11
AI-019 · Additional drainageNo variation raised
CVI-004 · Verbal, 12 MayAwaiting confirmation
With a cost effect19 of 24
Questions

What surveyors ask before they start

Is this a replacement for a full site management app?

No, and it does not pretend to be. QScope is built for the commercial side of the job. The programme, drawings, photographs, tasks and RFIs are here so the record sits with the money, not so you stop using a dedicated site tool if you have one.

Can subcontractors upload photographs?

Yes, if you give them comment level access. Their uploads are recorded against them in the audit trail.

What happens to files if I cancel?

You can export everything at any time, including after a trial ends, and your data stays available for export for 60 days after cancellation.

Does the programme link to the valuation?

Not automatically. The Gantt is a commercial view of whether the job runs past the contract date. Percentages certified are your professional assessment of the work done, and QScope does not guess them from a bar chart.

Related

The rest of the commercial picture

Try it on your next valuation

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