Daily Site Record
Capture what happened on site, the supporting evidence and follow-up required.
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Practical information for stronger project systems.
Start with clear project setup, current information and a regular review routine. Use the guidance below to identify improvements worth discussing with your team.
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Practical records for everyday project control.
Start with clearer site records, accountable actions and a consistent weekly review. Download individual Excel templates or the complete contractor starter pack.
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Actions and Decisions Register
Keep actions, issues and decisions visible with one owner and a target date.
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Track requests for information from the question through to a recorded response and closure.
Download Excel template (.xlsx)Variation Register
Track potential and instructed changes, supporting records and separate submitted and approved values.
Download Excel template (.xlsx)Project Risk and Controls Register
Identify project delivery risks, agree controls and assign responsibility for further action.
Download Excel template (.xlsx)Weekly Progress and Lookahead
Review this week against the plan and agree specific commitments for the next week.
Download Excel template (.xlsx)Each Excel template provides 500 working rows, status lists where relevant and usage instructions. Follow-up flags and quantity variances calculate where applicable; grey cells contain formulas.
Free for use and adaptation within your business and projects. Retain PMC² attribution. Not for resale. Adapt these starting points to your project, contract and responsibilities, and use them alongside required contractual notices and controlled safety records.
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Guides
Three practical checks for your next project.
Before mobilisation
- Confirm the contract handover, key dates, scope boundaries and unresolved assumptions.
- Assign owners for plans, registers, approvals and reporting.
- Set up the document structure and confirm how current information reaches the site.
- Record initial risks, dependencies and decisions requiring follow-up.
Document-control basics
- Use a consistent document identifier, title, revision and status.
- Keep the current approved revision easy to find and superseded copies clearly separated.
- Record who reviews, approves and distributes each document type.
- Check that field personnel can access the information they are authorised to use.
Weekly project-controls review
- Review progress against the agreed programme and explain material differences.
- Update risks, changes, issues and decisions using current project evidence.
- Give each action an owner and target date; follow up overdue items.
- Confirm the decisions and information needed before the next reporting cycle.
Adapt these starting points to your project, contract and responsibilities. They are general project-management guidance, not a certification or compliance assessment.
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Queensland Construction Industry Update.
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When project information becomes a management problem.
A spreadsheet, email thread or folder can be useful on its own. The difficulty comes when nobody can confidently identify the current record, the decision owner or the action still outstanding.
Look for recurring symptoms: reports assembled from several conflicting versions, actions without owners, instructions that cannot be traced, and project setup that changes with each project manager. These are useful prompts to review how information moves through the business.
Start with one process that creates repeated friction. Agree which record is authoritative, who maintains it, how changes are reviewed and when the team checks progress. Test that routine on a real project before extending it across the business.
Software can support the routine, but it still needs clear responsibilities, consistent records and team adoption. A Project Systems Health Check can help identify where to start.
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Office controls and field information in one operating model.
The PMC² EMS and Site App are being developed around structured project records, review workflows and controlled information. Discuss current availability and suitability before deciding whether validation is appropriate for your business.
Take the next step
Turn a recurring problem into a practical improvement.
Discuss the project-system issue affecting your team and the outcome you want to achieve.