Guides
Practical project control, one topic at a time.
Short, practical guides for subcontractors and specialist contractors: how progress, hours, and money stay connected on a real job. No fluff, no theory for its own sake.
How subcontractors track progress claims
What progress claims (payment applications) are, why spreadsheet tracking quietly loses money, and the five-step workflow that keeps claimed, certified, and executed values connected.
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Earned vs actual hours: measuring labour efficiency
What earned hours are, how labour efficiency is calculated, and why the weekly earned-versus-actual comparison catches losing jobs months before the accounts do.
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Timesheets are not progress
Hours measure what the work cost; progress measures what got built. Why deriving percent complete from hours burned misleads, and what timesheets are actually for.
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What is a BOQ? The bill of quantities, explained
How a BOQ differs from an estimate and a schedule of values — and how subcontractors use it as the working baseline for progress, planning, and payment.
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Freicore Product / Bearing
The workflow these guides describe, as working software.
BOQ/WBS baseline, weekly progress, exception-based timesheets, labour efficiency, and progress claims with client certification — one linked system.