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Free construction templates for UK teams

23 Excel and PDF templates covering the site record, the commercial register and the forecast. Built by quantity surveyors, free to download, no email wall.

A construction template is only worth the discipline behind it. The site diary that wins an adjudication isn't a better spreadsheet than the one that loses it. It's the one that was filled in on the day, every day, with the fields that matter.

Site records and diaries

The daily record layer. These are the documents an adjudicator asks for, and the ones most teams can't produce eight months later.

Site recordsSite diary template

The core daily record, with the NEC4 fields most templates leave out.

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Site recordsDaily report template

Shift-level report covering labour, plant, progress and delays.

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Site recordsProgress report template

Weekly and monthly progress reporting against programme.

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Site recordsAllocation sheet template

Daily labour and plant allocation, the backbone of a disruption claim.

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Site recordsAllocation tracker

Rolls allocation sheets up across a period.

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Site recordsTimesheet and productivity

Hours against output, so productivity loss is measurable.

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Site recordsMaterials delivery log

Delivery records that substantiate late-material claims.

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Site recordsWeather delay log

Weather records aligned to the NEC4 one-in-ten-year test.

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Commercial and NEC4

Where entitlement is tracked, valued and either recovered or lost. These are the registers the commercial team lives in.

CommercialCompensation event log

Every CE, its status and its clause 61.3 clock in one register.

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CommercialVariation tracker

For JCT and instructed-change contracts rather than NEC.

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CommercialFinal account tracker

Runs the account from first valuation to settlement.

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CommercialPayment application and valuation

Monthly valuation build-up and application.

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CommercialSubcontractor scorecard

Performance scoring you can point at during a dispute.

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CommercialProcurement and long-lead register

Tracks the items most likely to cause a delay claim.

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Project controls and earned value

The forecasting layer. They're only useful when the site records underneath them are honest, which is the whole problem.

Project controlsEarned value management template

PV, EV and AC with SPI and CPI calculated for you.

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Project controlsEarned value report template

The monthly EVM report, ready to issue.

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Project controlsCost to complete forecast

ETC and EAC from your current performance.

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Project controlsS-curve template

Planned against actual, plotted.

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Project controlsLookahead planner

Two, four and six week lookaheads.

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Project controlsProject dashboard

One page for cost, programme and risk.

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Project controlsRFI and TQ register

Queries logged with response times, so delay is attributable.

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Project controlsPunch list and defects tracker

Snagging through to close-out.

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Project controlsMeeting minutes and actions

Minutes that survive being quoted back at you.

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Templates fix the format. They don't fix the review.

Every template here still relies on someone reading it. Manual site diary review identifies roughly 60% of legitimate compensation events; the other 40% stays in the records, unnoticed, until the eight-week clock under clause 61.3 has run out. That isn't a template problem, and no spreadsheet solves it.

Gather is the AI site diary and commercial record platform that reads every entry against your NEC4 contract and flags the compensation events a manual review walks past. Book a demo if that's the problem you actually have.

Looking for calculators instead?

The eight week time bar, missed CE cost and EV/SPI/CPI calculators now live on QS Tools, a free sister platform built by the founders of Gather. No account needed there either.