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Job BookHollins Metalwork & Fabrication LLC

Sample data

AU-2418 · Canopy, Johnstown business park

One job with its commercial figures, the job chain, every booking made on site and the full history.

AU-2418 · Canopy over the entrance

Under way

Johnstown Business Park Partners LLC · site: 12 North Street, Johnstown, PA 15901

Commercial

Job value, net
$26,480.00
Based on
Quotation KV-1162 of 2 June for $24,300.00
Variations approved
$2,180.00 (NT-01, NT-02)
Variation without approval
$1,240.00 (NT-03)
Interim invoice
AR-1 for $12,000.00, paid 18 July

On site

Trades
Metalwork, glazing
Crew
Sedgwick, 3 fitters
Fitting started
28 July
Planned completion
1 August
Time-and-materials hours so far
6.5 h at $65.00/h

Dates and deadlines

Survey
11 June by M. Kirkbride
Handover planned
5 August, 10:00 AM
Warranty
5 years from handover
Client's site manager
Mr. Thistlewood

Job chain

  1. Quotation KV-1162

    2 June · $24,300.00

  2. Order placed

    9 June · in writing

  3. Survey on site

    11 June · M. Kirkbride

  4. Fabrication and stock issue

    13 to 25 July

  5. Fitting

    since 28 July · Sedgwick crew

  6. Handover and final invoice

    planned from 5 August

Stock issues and time-and-materials hours

Booked by the crew through the fitters' app and released by site management.

DateTypeDescriptionQuantityValueBooked by
13 JulTypeStock issueDescriptionAluminum profile 60/40, Altoona storeQuantity48 mValue$1,104.00Booked byWorkshop
18 JulTypeStock issueDescriptionLaminated safety glass 8/8, cut to size by the supplierQuantity14 m²Value$3,276.00Booked byWorkshop
25 JulTypeStock issueDescriptionAnchor plates and resin anchorsQuantity16 pcsValue$412.00Booked byR. Sedgwick
28 JulTypeT&M hoursDescriptionCore drilling in existing concrete (NT-03)Quantity4.5 hValue$292.50Booked byR. Sedgwick
29 JulTypeT&M hoursDescriptionCore drilling in existing concrete (NT-03)Quantity2.0 hValue$130.00Booked byR. Sedgwick
29 JulTypeStock issueDescriptionSealing profile, silicone, small partsQuantity1 setValue$186.40Booked byR. Sedgwick
30 JulTypeStock issueDescriptionAluminum profile 60/40, top-up deliveryQuantity12 mValue$276.00Booked byR. Sedgwick

7 bookings · material $5,254.40 · 6.5 T&M hours at $65.00/h = $422.50

History

  1. Stock issue booked

    Today, 7:04 AM

    12 m of 60/40 aluminum profile from the Altoona store — a top-up after off-cuts at the eaves.

    R. Sedgwick

  2. Variation NT-03 raised

    Yesterday, 5:22 PM

    Core drilling in existing concrete, $1,240.00. The client's approval is outstanding; until then the work runs on time and materials.

    M. Kirkbride

  3. Fitting started

    28 July, 6:30 AM

    Sedgwick crew with 3 fitters. The lift platform is rented until 1 August; an extension has to be booked by Friday.

    Scheduling

  4. Fabrication finished

    25 July, 2:00 PM

    Canopy structure galvanized and coated, collected by our own fitting team.

    Workshop

  5. Order placed

    9 June, 10:15 AM

    Quotation KV-1162 accepted, job value $24,300.00 net before variations.

    A. Hollins

The project frame

How Awelior would approach this project

Hollins Metalwork & Fabrication LLC is invented — the way it is built is not. None of this is work delivered for a client. It is the shape we would give such a project — with the same depth, but without a client who would have to answer for it.

Where it starts

At Hollins Metalwork & Fabrication LLC a job starts with a quotation, moves through survey and installation planning, consumes stock from the store and ends in a final invoice. Along the way it sits in a binder, on the magnet board, in the costing sheet and on timesheets that come out of the vans on Friday. Nobody can say on Monday what a live job has cost so far.

Decisions

  • One job, one number, from quotation to invoice

    The whole route hangs off the same job number. That sounds obvious and is the actual break with the old way: previously every station had its own filing, and pulling it together was manual work at month end.

  • Scheduling as a calendar next to the board

    Two views of the same week: the calendar for “who is where and when”, the board for “what is still unscheduled”. The magnet board in the office could only do the second — so the first was carried in somebody's head.

  • Hours and materials on the job, not in accounts

    Both are captured where they arise and are attached to the job immediately. Only then does the overview show a running cost comparison that is right during the work rather than after it.

Deliberately left outNo drawing management and no CAD integration. Design data has its own tools, its own revision control and its own specialists; pulling it into a job book would be the start of a second project under a false name.

What is in it

Screens
5
Content blocks
18
Languages
4

Five screens, in all four languages, with sidebar, header and stated role. Navigation works; tables, step chains, history, calendar and forms are rendered and inert. All job numbers and amounts are invented.

How it would go on

  • Time recording in the van

    Hours have to be captured where the work happens — offline-capable, because a building site rarely has a signal.

  • Accounting

    Invoices belong in the finance ledger, payments received belong back on the job. Without that return path the payment status becomes a second version of the truth.

  • Survey and handover

    A signature on site, photographs, a snagging list. That is where a job book stops and a site app begins.

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