Files
Project record
DocumentStatus
Contract, JCT SBC 2016, signedCurrent
Drawing A-102 rev C, gable elevationCurrent
Drawing A-102 rev BSuperseded
Site photographs, week 1418 files
Correspondence, delay notice 4 AugFiled
Project record
A superseded drawing is the most expensive piece of paper on a site. Photographs taken on a phone and never filed are worth nothing when a defect is disputed two years later.
30 days free, no card.
Filing against the project as you work costs seconds. Reconstructing it afterwards costs days, and the parts you cannot find are the parts that mattered.
Nobody sets out to reconstruct a project file the week before an adjudication.
It happens because the record was never kept in one place while the job was running. Filing against the project as you work costs seconds. Reconstructing it afterwards costs days, and the parts you cannot find are the parts that mattered.
Files and plans
A superseded drawing is the most expensive piece of paper on a site.
QScope keeps plans, site photographs, contracts and correspondence against the project they belong to, so the file is assembled as you go rather than the week before an adjudication.
Audit trail
A drawing is only evidence if you can show which version was current on the day the work was done.
Every upload, supersession and deletion is recorded automatically against the surveyor or guest who made it, and nothing in the interface can amend the entry.
RFIs
A drawing revision usually starts as a question.
Kept beside the drawings and photographs, the RFI and the revision it produced sit on the same project rather than in two systems that lose sight of each other.
Instructions
A revised drawing that changes the cost of the works needs an instruction behind it.
The instruction register sits with the drawings, so the authority and the document it changed are filed against the same project.
Who it is for
You are applying
The record defends your own figuresYou keep the record that defends your own applications: who changed which figure, and the documents behind every line.
Applying for paymentYou are certifying
The trail holds when yours are challengedYou certify on the strength of the record, and when a figure is challenged the audit trail is what stands between you and an argument.
Certifying paymentYou are doing both
The file protects the one who kept itYou keep the paperwork yourself, and the file that assembles as you go is the one that protects you when memories differ.
Doing both yourselfYou are reporting
The record is all the site you seeYou rely on the record more than anyone: bonds in force, access controlled, every figure traceable, because you were never on site.
Recommending a drawdownThe client, the architect and the tenderer are not on this list. They are the people you let in on a link: they see the one document you sent them, answer it, and that answer is written into the record. No account, no licence, no charge, on every plan.
The questions this page raises most often, answered without a sales pitch at the end.
No, and it does not pretend to be. QScope is built for the commercial side of the job. The programme, drawings, photographs, tasks and RFIs are here so the record sits with the money, not so you stop using a dedicated site tool if you have one.
Yes, if you give them comment level access. Their uploads are recorded against them in the audit trail.
You can export everything at any time, including after a trial ends, and your data stays available for export for 60 days after cancellation.
Not automatically. The Gantt is a commercial view of whether the job runs past the contract date. Percentages certified are your professional assessment of the work done, and QScope does not guess them from a bar chart.
From the blog
Three pieces from the same corner of a contract as this page, answered at length and without a sales pitch at the end.
An advance payment bond is a guarantee that if you take the money and fail, the client gets it back from a bank or surety instead of chasing you. What it costs, how it reduces as the advance is recovered, and the wording that quietly makes it dangerous.
Read nowInstead of the client holding 5% of every payment for two years, a surety guarantees the same protection and you keep the cash. When the swap genuinely pays, what the premium and the counter-indemnity really cost, and the client objections worth taking seriously.
Read nowTitle to site materials passes to the employer once their value is certified and paid. But a contractor can pass only the title it holds, and a supplier's retention of title clause can defeat the employer even after payment.
Read nowKeep reading
A superseded drawing is the most expensive piece of paper on a site. Photographs taken on a phone and never filed are worth nothing when a defect is disputed two years later.
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