How to Track Construction Change Orders (Without Losing the Money)
Most change order money is lost at the point it is agreed, not the point it is billed. Here is the process that closes that gap.
Practical write-ups on the process problems that quietly cost builders margin: change orders that never get priced, daily logs nobody fills in, and schedules that fall apart three weeks out. No gated PDFs, no email wall.
Most change order money is lost at the point it is agreed, not the point it is billed. Here is the process that closes that gap.
A daily log is only worth keeping if it is still being filled in six months from now. That is a design problem, not a discipline problem.
The master schedule tells you where the job should be. The lookahead is what stops next Tuesday going wrong.
Change orders with the financial impact calculated, daily logs that take a minute on a phone, and lookaheads that build themselves from the schedule.