Groundworks and civils: worked example

A groundworks firm sending out a car park and drainage job

A commercial groundworks job means labour packages, plant, haulage and materials on every quote. This is how a civils firm would run one through SUBR.

The Review section of a quote in SUBR with four steps marked Done: the quote read, the read checked against the document, approved for scope, and two scopes cut.
A quote that has been read, checked with the office's two ticks and approved, with two scopes cut from it. Screen from SUBR's demonstration workspace. All names are invented.

This is a worked example, not a customer story. SUBR is new, so we show how a firm like this would use it. Real case studies from our Founding Firms will replace these examples.

The firm

A groundworks and civils contractor working on commercial and industrial sites, with a small office and its own gangs, subcontracting drainage and surfacing.

Before SUBR

The quote for a distribution centre car park lists excavation, drainage, kerbing and surfacing with the firm's rates. The drainage and surfacing packages have to be retyped for each subcontractor with the rates taken out.

Pipe, aggregates and plant are requested from merchants and hire firms one phone call at a time.

With SUBR

Each step on a real SUBR screen. The screens come from the demonstration workspace and show one example job, a brickwork repair; a groundworks and civils quote goes through exactly the same steps.

Quote read

The office uploads the client quote PDF, AI reads it, and the office ticks the read as checked and approved for scope.

The AI's read of a quote in SUBR: a scope summary, labour breakdown, materials breakdown, quantities, preparation and completion tasks, and the wording for the subcontractor.
What the AI read from the quote PDF: scope, labour, materials, quantities and the wording for the subcontractor. Screen from SUBR's demonstration workspace. All names are invented.

Scopes built

SUBR produces a drainage scope and a surfacing scope with no rates or client price on them, a materials request for the merchants, and a scope of works for the project manager.

The works section of a scope in SUBR with the sub-contractor scope, scaffolding scope, powered access and site materials supplier scope, and no costs, margin or client price.
One scope cut from the quote: the work, the scaffold and the materials wording a subcontractor needs. No job costs, margin or client price. Screen from SUBR's demonstration workspace. All names are invented.

Work offered

Each subcontractor gets their own link and can accept, decline, ask a question or ask for a change from the phone, with no account and no password.

A subcontractor's offer on a phone: price, basis, duration, payment and start date, what the job is, and four buttons to accept, decline, ask a question or propose a price.
The same offer on the subcontractor's phone: accept, decline, ask a question or propose a price. No account. Screen from SUBR, shown with invented example details. All names are invented.
The offers screen in SUBR with offers out to subcontractors listed by crew, and one offer open showing its price, its subcontractor and its status.
Offers out to subcontractors, listed by crew, with the price offered and the answer still awaited. Swipe sideways to see the whole screen. Screen from SUBR's demonstration workspace. All names are invented.

Pre-start

The accepted job cannot be marked mobilised until the 23-item pre-start check is done, so no gang starts before the RAMS are signed.

The pre-start clearance on a job in SUBR, with the 23 items to tick before it can mobilise and none of them ticked yet. The first two groups are shown.
The pre-start check on a job that has just been received: 23 items to tick, none done yet, so it cannot be mobilised. The first two groups are shown. Screen from SUBR's demonstration workspace. All names are invented.

On site

The site manager logs the day on each job, and every job from the car park quote stays on one project to close-out.

The jobs board in SUBR with every job and its stage listed on the left, and a job with crew on site open on the right showing its progress and its to-do list.
The jobs board: every job and its stage, with a job on site open to show its progress and to-do list. Each day is logged on the job as a check-in. Swipe sideways to see the whole screen. Screen from SUBR's demonstration workspace. All names are invented.

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