The unit rate, while you can still fix it.
Installed quantities read off the day's capture, divided by the hours the geofence recorded, set against the unit rate the estimator bid. Production posts by crew every day at 18:00 — formwork on this job is running 1.04× bid rate, and you knew it in week 5, not at closeout.
What it does
Quantities come from the capture, not from a form somebody fills in at the end of the shift: linear metres of wall framed, square metres of deck poured, fixtures set, metres of pipe hung — read off the morning flight and the 360 walk by the same head of the Brain that reports progress by trade. Hours come from the geofenced timesheet. Divide one by the other and you have a unit rate in the terms your estimator priced the work in.
Because the comparison runs daily and by crew, a rate that is drifting shows up in week 4 while there is still a head to add, a sequence to change, or a method to fix — instead of at closeout, when it is a lesson. The Brain cites its working: the frames the quantity was read from, the timesheets the hours came from, and the estimate line it was measured against. Rates you accept feed the cost history your next bid is priced from.
How it works
- 01
Count what got installed
The Brain reads installed quantities off the day's capture — the ortho for earthworks and slabs, the 360 walk for interiors, the robot round for plant rooms — in the units the estimate was written in. No crew stops to count, and nothing is sampled.
- 02
Divide by the hours
Hours come from the geofenced timesheet, already coded to the activity the crew was dispatched to. The quotient is a unit rate per crew per day, posted at 18:00 while the crew that produced it is still on the job and still reachable.
- 03
Compare against the estimate
Each rate is set against the line it was bid at, with its frames and timesheets attached. Drift past 10% for three consecutive days is flagged to the superintendent and the project manager, and accepted rates go back into the cost history the next estimate reads.
Spec
- QUANTITIES
- FROM CAPTURE · DAILY
- HOURS
- GEOFENCED · BY ACTIVITY
- POSTED
- 18:00 · BY CREW
- DRIFT FLAG
- > 10% · 3 DAYS
1.04×
Current formwork rate against bid