Construction Progress Planning

Every day brings new updates, emails, documents, and task lists when you are working in a construction project. Many of our day-to-day tasks are similar and follow up on existing information. Construction Progress Planning and Project status reports are amongst the most important ways of communication between the construction project sponsor or board, various stakeholders and the project manager. Often, the reporting happens on a weekly (detailed), biweekly, monthly (more generic) basis and at set milestones in the project’s path. Whenever it is prepared and shared, the most important thing is that the construction project manager is responsible for making clear and easy to interpret project reports. Therefore, it’s important the delivered reports are written concisely, offer high-level management information about a project, rather than every detail.

The main benefit of delivering effective construction project status reports is that the management keeps oversight and implicit sign-off moment on the project’s progress. An effectively created status report will inform about project health in terms of speed, quality, time, budget, milestones reached, and work completed, while also informs about potential risks and providing transparency about decisions and activity within the project. To ensure that you are getting the most out of the time you spend creating reports and the time others spend reviewing them, here’s a simple Construction Progress Planning report. It includes the following: