Category: Project Management

Preparing Daily Construction Reports

Preparing Daily Construction Reports

Why do we need Daily Construction Reports?

It is part of the business and daily routine.

  • To review important notations in weekly meetings to set up action lists/agendas and improve performance through discussion.
  • To compliment good reports that briefly convey important items.
  • Daily Reports are working documents of the business.

It is needed for legal aspects and purposes.

  • Daily Reports are documents that can testify the activities that did happen, or did not happen but should have happened on site.
  • It can be introduced in court as evidence of the activities on site.

Things/Factors that a Daily Report Supports:

  • Time and Material Costs under the “Change” clause
  • Constructive Changes
  • Acceleration of Work
  • Suspension of Work
  • Impacts and Delays
  • Changes in the Sequence of Activities
  • Disruptions
  • Force Stoppage of Work
  • Termination of Work

Things to Avoid in Daily Reports:

  • Inaccuracies
  • Self-serving Statements
  • Inconsistencies
  • Loss of Records

What do you need:

  • A hard-backed pad or clipboard and a pen
  • A small durable tape or digital voice recorder
  • A digital camera with date and time stamp
  • A flashlight and tape measure

Be sure to have an answer to the following:

  • Actual start of an activity. If it’s delayed, why?
  • Were all items needed to start on hand/ready?
  • Were any activities stopped /postponed for any reason?
  • When is the completion of an activity?

Important Aspects on a Daily Report:

  • Get and list names.
  • Note time of day.
  • Be specific about location.
  • Separate fact from opinion.
  • Think cause-and-effect.
  • Include lots of photos.
  • Think safety!

Other noteworthy items:

  • Tests and their results
  • Inspections with pass/fail information
  • Major material deliveries (complete, damage, correct, etc.)
  • Job site visitations and reasons (arrive/leave info)
  • Shared crane usage
  • People issues

 

BIM – Building Information Modeling

BIM – Building Information Modeling

Contents

  • What is BIM?
  • What is 3D, 4D, 5D, 6D and 7D in BIM?
  • Software used in BIM
  • Benefits of BIM
  • Industry Foundation Class
  • BIM cloud
  • BIM maturity wedge diagram
  • BIM in India and abroad
  • Drawbacks of BIM

What is BIM?

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BIM is an intelligent model-based process that provides insight to help you plan, design, construct, and manage buildings and infrastructure. – Autodesk

The word intelligent in the above definition means that BIM can store each and every information of the building, whether it may be structural information or it may be architectural information, mechanical information, electrical information, HVAC information, plumbing information and each and every information regarding the building.

 

Who can take advantage of BIM?

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What is 3D, 4D, 5D, 6D and 7D in BIM?

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Problems faced when BIM is not used

  • Flow of data
  • Improper schedule of work
  • Cost estimate is tedious and not accurate
  • Digitalization of data is less
  • Clash detection becomes very difficult to notice
  • Reinforcement details in junctions
  • Energy analysis

 

3D Software used in BIM

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Design analysis software used in BIM

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Scheduling software used in BIM

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Estimation software used in BIM

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Non – BIM software

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Interaction among the AEC professionals due to BIM without any conflict

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Industry Foundation Classes (IFC)

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BIM Cloud

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Drawing based process vs. BIM process

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CAD vs. BIM

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Countries making BIM compulsory for big projects/government projects

  • United Kingdom
  • Norway
  • Denmark
  • Finland
  • Hong Kong
  • South Korea
  • Netherlands

 

BIM maturity wedge diagram

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BIM in India

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Reasons for not using BIM in India

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Drawbacks of BIM

  • Complexity of software used for BIM
  • Cost of software
  • Lack of BIM knowledge in India
  • BIM course is only available abroad
  • The computer system running these software needs high end specifications

 

Conclusion

  • BIM is promising and more advantageous compared to the traditional process, but still it has several setbacks as the technology is still in primitive stage.
  • A significant amount of development is to be done in information flow and interoperability of the software.
  • Additional training material is to be provided with software to learn the complicated features.
  • In India, universities should start teaching BIM as an academic course to make the people perfect in this field.