Daily Field Guide - A Logbook for Home Builders
Handy Manual Helps Manage the Details to Keep Each Job Running Smoothly and on Schedule

Organization is the key to success. With this handy manual you can manage the details to keep each job running smoothly and on schedule. Use it to keep accurate records of jobsite activities, document events during the course of construction, and to schedule trade contractors and suppliers. Includes a computer disk to help you modify and personalize each form, chart, and checklist. 

Introduction

The construction superintendent's job is one of the most dynamic in the building industry. Superintendents must coordinate jobsite activities while dealing with architects, engineers, trade contractors, state and local governing officials, building departments, and sales representatives, as well as the builders who sign their paychecks and the homebuyers who indirectly pay their salary.

It happens to superintendents all the time. For one reason or another, a superintendent may get sidetracked and remember on the way home that he or she forgot to call in an inspection. But inspectors' phone numbers and permit numbers for houses are not always at the super's fingertips.

This Daily Field Guide is designed to help you, as the superintendent, not only keep the job on schedule, but also document what happens during the course of construction. If you take a few minutes at the start of each house to fill in the appropriate charts in this book, everything you need to make the job run more smoothly will be with you at all times-provided you don't lose this book.

The Daily Field Guide includes:

• A Phone List with spaces for subcontractors' office numbers, cellular phone numbers, fax machine numbers, pagers, and emergency phone numbers.
• A Projection Chart you can use to put together a preliminary schedule of how long you feel it will take to build a particular house in perfect conditions. This will help you project to customers and sales representatives about when a house might be ready for a walk-through.
• An Inspection Chart that lists the most common inspections you will need to call in to building departments.
• Basic Conversion and Formula data, should you need to figure and order certain materials.
• Weekly Cleanup Schedules so the job site stays safe and presentable.
• A Weather Log for tracking morning and afternoon temperatures, wind, and other elements that may affect the construction of a house and help explain why there were delays.
• Extra Work Performed sheets, Backcharges sheets, Equipment Rented sheets, Portable Latrines sheets, and a Vehicle Maintenance Log to help keep track of details.
• A Warranty Literature Package checklist that lists items that should be presented to the homeowners on the day of the walk-through.

The six-page Project Log and Checklists, the most important part and majority of this book, includes a list of what to order, check, and schedule when a house is released to build. It also contains daily and weekly reminders, an options and extras sheet, a material category, and more. The book is designed to track 15 houses simultaneously.

Organization is the key to any superintendent's success. Scheduling materials, trade contractors, and keeping an accurate record of jobsite activities is essential to organization. The Daily Field Guide is written so that whether you build three custom homes a year or a few hundred production homes, you will be able to keep track of them at a glance.

Contents:

About the Author, 4
Acknowledgments, 4
Diskette Instructions, 4
Introduction, 5
Phone List, 6
Projection Chart, 10
Inspection Chart, 12
Conversions and Formulas, 14
Weekly Cleanup Schedule, 116
Weather Log, 22
Extra Work Performed, 27
Backcharges, 29
Equipment Rented, 31
Portable Latrines, 33
Vehicle Maintenance Log, 34
Warranty Literature Package, 38
Project Log and Checklists, 39

A note about page numbers

Every building company develops its own preferred way of organizing and recording information. Accordingly, we have designed the Daily Field Guide to be flexible. You can arrange and number the pages to suit your needs and preferences. Forms that consist of more than one page are marked accordingly. If you prefer to keep the pages in the original order, use the small page numbers printed in the bottom corner of each page.

We have provided 15 sets of Project Log and Checklist pages so that you can track 15 projects at once with the Daily Filed Guide. New Project Log and Checklists sets begin on pages 39, 45, 51, 57, 63, 69, 75, 81, 87, 93, 99, 105, 111, 117 and 123.

Paperback, 128 pages

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