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23 free Excel templates covering the site record, the commercial register and the forecast. Built by quantity surveyors, no email wall.

8 templates

Site records and diaries

The daily record layer. These are the documents an adjudicator asks for, and the ones most teams can't produce eight months later.

Site Diary Template

The core daily record, with the NEC4 fields most templates leave out.

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Daily Report Template

Shift-level report covering labour, plant, progress and delays.

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Progress Report Template

Weekly and monthly progress reporting against programme.

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Allocation Sheet Template

Daily labour and plant allocation, the backbone of a disruption claim.

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Allocation Tracker

Rolls allocation sheets up across a period.

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Timesheet and Productivity

Hours against output, so productivity loss is measurable.

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Materials Delivery Log

Delivery records that substantiate late-material claims.

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Weather Delay Log

Weather records aligned to the NEC4 one-in-ten-year test.

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Commercial and NEC4

Where entitlement is tracked, valued and either recovered or lost. These are the registers the commercial team lives in.

Compensation Event Log

Every CE, its status and its clause 61.3 clock in one register.

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Variation Tracker

For JCT and instructed-change contracts rather than NEC.

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Final Account Tracker

Runs the account from first valuation to settlement.

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Payment Application and Valuation

Monthly valuation build-up and application.

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Subcontractor Scorecard

Performance scoring you can point at during a dispute.

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Procurement and Long-Lead Register

Tracks the items most likely to cause a delay claim.

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Project controls and earned value

The forecasting layer. They're only useful when the site records underneath them are honest, which is the whole problem.

Earned Value Management Template

PV, EV and AC with SPI and CPI calculated for you.

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Earned Value Report Template

The monthly EVM report, ready to issue.

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Cost to Complete Forecast

ETC and EAC from your current performance.

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S-Curve Template

Planned against actual, plotted.

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Lookahead Planner

Two, four and six week lookaheads.

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Project Dashboard

One page for cost, programme and risk.

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RFI and TQ Register

Queries logged with response times, so delay is attributable.

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Punch List and Defects Tracker

Snagging through to close-out.

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Meeting Minutes and Actions

Minutes that survive being quoted back at you.

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Templates fix the format

They Don't Fix the Review

Every template here still relies on someone reading it. Gather is the AI site diary and commercial record platform that reads every entry against your NEC4 contract and flags the compensation events a manual review walks past.

Questions

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We know you might have questions about QS Tools — here's what we can tell you about the platform, how it works, and how it can help.

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QS Tools is a free platform built specifically for Quantity Surveyors. It offers ready-to-use templates, calculators, and workflows designed to save time, reduce errors, and simplify everyday tasks like cost planning, resource tracking, and reporting.

  • Quantity Surveyors at all levels, from trainees to experienced professionals.
  • Contractors and consultants looking to streamline their workflows.
  • Freelancers who want access to professional tools without the expense of premium software.

Created by the founders of Gather, QS Tools is a free platform offering templates and calculators to simplify specific QS tasks. Gather is a comprehensive construction record management system designed to improve data capture, reporting, and analysis across entire projects. Think of QS Tools as a stepping stone towards more advanced tools like Gather.

Who can access my data? Only you have access to the data you save on QS Tools. We do not share, sell, or access your data without your explicit permission.

Is my data secure? Yes — it's protected with industry-standard encryption and security protocols.

Can I delete my data? Absolutely, at any time. Once deleted, it's permanently removed from our systems and cannot be recovered.