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BOQ automation and site control for a contractor

CLIENT: Construction contracting company, Dubai. Anonymised

A control panel for a contracting business that reads bills of quantities out of documents, tracks site progress and material movement, and chases the follow-ups that fall between them.

Construction operations command centre showing financial and workflow panels across active projects. The contracting company's name and logo are blurred.
// overview

A contractor's real operating system is a bill of quantities in a document, a progress figure in someone's head, and a material shortage that surfaces the morning it stops work. The BOQ gets re-keyed into a spreadsheet, the spreadsheet drifts from the site, and the follow-ups that hold it all together live in email and WhatsApp where nothing can be counted.

This puts the three in one place. A new BOQ is opened under a client or project from whatever the source happens to be, a PDF, an Excel file, or an email carrying drawings, and the line items are extracted from it rather than re-typed. Quantities are then mapped against the vendor master for cost and selling price, the assembled set is validated before anything is committed, and the result is filled into a template to generate the BOQ. Around it, project and site progress and material movement sit in the same view, with slippage, shortages and overdue follow-ups surfaced rather than waited for.

// specs
Covers
BOQ automation, project and site progress, materials and procurement, follow-up tracking
BOQ sources
PDF, Excel, or an email carrying drawings; multiple sources per BOQ
Pricing
Quantities mapped to cost and selling price from the vendor master database
Output
Validated line set filled into a template to generate the BOQ
Exceptions
Slippage, shortages and overdue follow-ups surfaced automatically
// what it does
01

A new BOQ opens under a client or project from a PDF, an Excel file or an email with drawings

02

Line items extracted from the source documents instead of re-typed

03

Quantities mapped to cost and selling price against the vendor master database

04

A validation step before commit: the assembled set is checked, then the template is filled

05

Project and site progress and material movement in one view across active jobs

06

Exception surfacing: slippage, shortages and overdue follow-ups raised rather than hunted for

// how it runs
SOURCE → EXTRACT → PRICE → VALIDATE → GENERATE
  1. PDF / Excel / email
  2. Line extraction
  3. Vendor master pricing
  4. Validation
  5. Template fill
  6. BOQ
// how we worked
01 / Diagnose

Followed one bill of quantities from the document it arrives in to the spreadsheet it ends up in, and counted the places it gets re-typed.

02 / Ship

A command centre bringing the BOQ, site progress, material movement and open follow-ups into a single panel.

03 / Scale

Built so rollout is configuration: a new project or site reuses the same extraction, pricing and validation path rather than a new build.

Re-typing the same BOQ into a third spreadsheet?

Bring the workflow and the number it affects. A reply within one business day.

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// end of case study · BOQ automation and site control for a contractor