Execution

Daily Reports

How daily construction reports capture work performed, conditions, and a chronological field record for the project.

Updated 2026-08-22

Daily Reports are the chronological field record: what was installed, what blocked work, and what the site looked like on a given date.

Reports can move through statuses such as submitted and approved. The overview uses those statuses as a signal that field reporting has started, not as a complete earned-value engine by itself.

What they are for

  • a dated record of work
  • input to production totals
  • context for issues, delays, and weather
  • a trail that closeout and claims teams can read later

Discipline

A daily report that is not submitted cannot help Project Controls. A report that uses different quantity units than the estimate cannot be compared without a mapping step. Prefer the same cost and production categories the commercial team used.