A total with no company behind it
The log says forty-two people were on site, but not how many were the concrete crew and how many the electricians, so it cannot explain why one trade is behind.
Daily logs
Construction manpower log: workers and hours by company, every day
Owners and general contractors want to know how many people each trade had on site, and for how many hours. In Fidrel the daily log holds that as manpower rows: a company or trade, the number of workers and the hours, added up for the day, locked when it is submitted and printed as a PDF for the day or the week. This page shows how to keep it, and where it stops.
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Where manpower records fall short
Heads without hours
Ten carpenters who worked a half day look the same on paper as ten who worked a full one. The hours say how much work it was.
A figure that can be rewritten
When a number is changed weeks later and nothing shows it, nobody can rely on it. A log should be closed at the end of the day and amended in the open.
What a manpower row holds
Each row is one company or trade on one day: the Company, the Trade, the number of Workers and the Hours. A day can have as many rows as it has crews, so the general contractor and each subcontractor get their own line. The log keeps numbers, not people: a row cannot carry the names of the workers.
Site & daily log
Totals, hours and the week
Each log shows the day’s Workers and Man-hours, the equipment hours and the lost time, with how much of it was weather. These are the sums of that day’s rows. For a trade over a week, open the Weekly report (PDF): the seven days from Monday, one page each. Fidrel does not add a company’s hours across days for you.
How to keep a manpower log in the daily log
Step 1
Start today’s log
Open Site & daily log, choose the Daily logs tab and select Start today’s log. There is one log for each project and day, counted in the project’s own time.
Step 2
Add manpower, one row for each company or trade
Choose Add manpower and enter the Company or the Trade, the number of Workers and the Hours they worked. A row needs a company or a trade and a number of workers, and the hours cannot exceed what that many workers could put in during a day.
Step 3
Copy from yesterday when the crews repeat
On a day with no manpower or equipment yet, Copy from yesterday brings in the previous log’s rows. Change the numbers that differ and remove the crews that were not there.
Step 4
Read the day’s totals and fill in the rest
The log adds up Workers and Man-hours for the day. Add equipment, deliveries, visitors, weather and any Delays and lost time, with the Hours lost and whether it was a Weather delay.
Step 5
Submit and lock, then countersign
Select Submit and lock when the day is done. A countersigner chosen by the project administrator then selects Countersign, or Sign with objection and says what is not correct. Anything added afterwards goes in as an addendum.
Step 6
Print the day or the week
Select PDF for the day, or Weekly report (PDF) for the week. The week has a page for each day with its totals, rows, signatures and addenda.
Locked, then countersigned
Submit and lock closes the log. The summary and the rows cannot be changed by anyone after that; they can only be supplemented with an addendum that carries its own text, author and time. The project administrator chooses up to ten countersigners under Sign-off, and a reply time if the project wants one. Each countersigner is told in the bell when a log waits. One of them countersigns or signs with an objection, and the person who submitted is told the answer. Nobody countersigns their own log.
What the manpower log is not
The log is a record of the day, not a payroll or a timekeeping system. The hours are the figures you enter for a company or trade, and the workers are numbers, not names. Nothing is filled in from a gate or a badge. The reply time on a countersignature is shown, and nothing happens by itself when it passes.
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A record of how many people each company or trade had on site each day, and for how many hours. In Fidrel it is the Manpower part of the daily log.
Open Site & daily log, choose the Daily logs tab, open the day and select Add manpower. A row takes the Company or Trade, the Workers and the Hours.
Add one manpower row for each subcontractor on the day, with its name as the Company and its trade. The rows of the day are listed together and added up as Workers and Man-hours.
It totals each day. The Weekly report (PDF) has a page for each day with that day’s figures, but Fidrel does not add one company’s hours across the week; you read them from the pages.
No. A manpower row holds a company or a trade, a number of workers and hours. It cannot hold the names of the people on site.
No. After Submit and lock the rows cannot be changed by anyone. A correction is added as an addendum with the author’s name and the time, and the original figures stay as they were submitted.