Construction project control
Quantities are measured on site, re-typed into a spreadsheet, reconciled against the BOQ by someone else, and reach the director after the month has closed. MBook removes the re-typing: a quantity is recorded once, and progress, cost, procurement and the subcontractor’s bill all read that same figure.
Managing Director
You steer on last month’s numbers. The overrun surfaces at month-end, when it is already spent.
Quantity Surveyor
The measurement book, the BOQ and the subcontractor’s claim are three different documents that have to be made to agree by hand.
Project Manager
Site says 40 percent. The BOQ says 31 percent. Nobody can show which figure came from what.
Project, WBS, BOQ and activity form a single structure. Every transaction hangs off it, which is what allows a figure entered once to be correct everywhere it appears.
Plan
Break the job into a WBS, load the BOQ, set the baseline. Once approved, it is frozen — changes go through a variation.
Track
Site fills the daily report on a phone. Quantities land against the activity and the BOQ line they belong to.
Execute
Material requests, purchase orders and subcontractor measurements all price off the same approved quantities.
Control
Progress, earned value, committed cost and open issues are computed, not typed. The dashboard cannot drift from the site.
Switched on per company. Start with planning, BOQ and the daily report; add procurement and subcontract management when the first loop is reconciling.
Dashboard
Portfolio and project health, computed from what site actually filed.
Projects
Project master, contract terms, retention and advance, site locations.
Planning
WBS, activities, dependencies, milestones and a frozen baseline.
Commercial
BOQ with Excel import, rate analysis, budget and the variation register.
Site
Daily report on a phone — progress, labour, equipment, materials, issues, photos.
Quality & Safety
Procurement
Material request to purchase order to goods receipt, priced with GST.
Inventory
Stock ledger, issues to site, and BOQ versus procured versus consumed.
Subcontract
Packages, subcontract BOQ, work orders, measurement and certification.
Billing
RA bills off cumulative quantity, with retention, recovery and output GST.
Statutory
Reports
Registers and exports the client, the auditor and the bank all ask for.
Settings
Company, GST registrations per State, users, roles and permissions.
Not an overseas product with a rupee symbol added. Works contract sits under SAC 9954 at 18 percent. Place of supply is the site State under section 12(3) of the IGST Act, so a Maharashtra contractor billing a Karnataka site gets IGST, not CGST and SGST — the database refuses to save it the other way round.
Create an account, load one BOQ, and have the site file a daily report. If the numbers do not reconcile against your measurement book, we would rather you found out in week one.