Structured deliverable planning
- Organize construction work by area, zone, system, package, contractor, or measurable quantity.
Turn Site Progress into Measurable Project Control
Plan, measure, and control construction deliverables using verified physical progress—not assumptions or subjective percentage updates. Gain reliable visibility into delays, productivity, costs, resources, payments, and handover readiness—so teams can take corrective action before slippages affect project milestones.
What Does It Do
Earned Value for Construction: The Core Principle
Enables Earned Value–based monitoring and control of construction deliverables, ensuring that reported progress reflects actual, verified work completed on site, not assumptions.
In Wrench-SmartProject, construction progress is governed by one rule:
Progress is earned only when measurable physical work is completed and verified.
Every construction deliverable—whether a foundation, structure, piping system, road stretch, or building zone—is planned, measured, and controlled using:
- Budgeted quantities or manhours
- Defined construction milestones
- Rules of credit linked to physical completion
- Planned milestone dates and sequences
Key Capabilities
Key Capabilities
Construction progress is planned, earned and reported from verified physical work.
Milestone-based progress
- Award progress only after defined physical milestones are completed and verified.
Quantity-based measurement
- Calculate earned value automatically from executed quantities against budgeted quantities.
Rules of credit
- Assign predefined progress weightages to installation, completion, testing, and handover milestones.
Planned and actual S-curves
- Compare cumulative construction performance across areas, packages, and contractors.
Progress histograms
- Identify weekly or monthly shortfalls in quantities, man-hours, and productivity.
Weighted project progress
- Generate accurate overall progress based on quantities or man-hours—not flat averages.
Cost and payment integration
- Link verified progress with costs, variations, claims, and interim payment certificates.
Real-time dashboards
- Give site teams and management immediate visibility into progress, delays, and required corrective actions.
Benefits
Key Benefits for Construction Teams
What planners, site managers and commercial teams gain when progress is earned, not estimated.
Objective, measurable construction progress
This ensures that only verified work contributes to project progress.
Early warning of delays and productivity loss
Such deviations are visible immediately—allowing corrective action before delays escalate.
Strong linkage between progress, cost, and payments
This ensures alignment between work done, progress earned, cost incurred, and payment due.
Reduced disputes with contractors and clients
This significantly reduces disputes and improves payment certainty.
Improved work-front and resource planning
Planners and managers focus on removing constraints and expediting work, not chasing site reports.
Reliable reporting for management and stakeholders
The result is a true, defensible construction progress figure.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions.
Quick answers on earned progress, rules of credit and payment linkage.
When does a construction deliverable earn progress?
Only when measurable physical work is completed and verified. Wrench SmartProject plans each deliverable with budgeted quantities or manhours, defined milestones and rules of credit, so reported progress reflects actual work on site rather than assumptions or subjective percentage updates.
Can progress be measured by quantities as well as milestones?
Yes. Progress can be awarded when defined physical milestones are completed and verified, and earned value can also be calculated automatically from executed quantities against budgeted quantities. Work can be organized by area, zone, system, package, contractor or measurable quantity.
How are rules of credit set up for each milestone?
Each milestone carries a predefined progress weightage. Rules of credit assign weightages to milestones such as installation, completion, testing and handover, and tie that credit to physical completion, so a deliverable earns its share only when the milestone is completed and verified.
How is overall project progress weighted?
By quantities or man-hours, not flat averages. Wrench SmartProject rolls up progress using each deliverable's budgeted quantities or manhours, giving an accurate overall figure and a true, defensible construction progress number for management and stakeholders.
Does verified progress feed interim payment certificates?
Yes. Verified progress is linked with costs, variations, claims and interim payment certificates, keeping work done, progress earned, cost incurred and payment due in line. This reduces disputes with contractors and clients and improves payment certainty.
What do the planned and actual S-curves and histograms show?
Planned and actual S-curves compare cumulative construction performance across areas, packages and contractors. Progress histograms identify weekly or monthly shortfalls in quantities, man-hours and productivity, so deviations are visible immediately and corrective action can be taken before delays escalate.
From Site Reporting to Construction Control.
Earned Value-based construction deliverable monitoring in Wrench-SmartProject transforms site data into actionable intelligence. By linking physical work, milestones, quantities, and earned value, construction progress becomes transparent, reliable, and controllable—exactly where EPC projects need it most.