Programme

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The job's key dates in one place: every milestone with its planned, forecast and actual date, the slip against plan, a read-only Gantt of the planner's programme, the labour look-ahead by trade, and the extension-of-time register. The programme itself stays in the planner's tool — you import it here (Primavera P6 XER/XML, MS Project XML, or a CSV) or type the key dates by hand.

You enter

Milestones by hand (name, planned date) when there is no planner's file — or the forecast and actual dates as the job moves.
The planner's programme export, dropped on Import programme. Re-importing updates dates; it never duplicates.
Each EOT claim: the reference, the relevant event, the days claimed and — once decided — the days awarded and the awarded completion date.
Labour bookings on the Look-ahead: operatives per trade per week, typed, pasted from a subcontractor's labour schedule, or booked as the programme requires in one click.

Saral fills in

Slip per milestone: (actual, else forecast, else planned) minus planned.
Planned, forecast and contract completion, and the extended completion once EOT days are awarded — the contract completion date comes from Contract & Budget.
An actual date read from the records (start on site from the site register, practical completion from a signed handover or PC certificate) while nobody has typed one — marked 'from records'.
The timeline drawing, the Gantt over its baseline, the required labour per trade from the imported activities, and the actual labour from the daily labour log on Site & design.
Warnings: milestones slipped past the account's threshold, forecast completion past the contract date even after awarded EOTs, trades short next week.

It produces

Programme milestones register (Excel with live formulas / PDF) and the Extensions of time register.
The Labour look-ahead export by trade and week.
The Programme tile on the project's Overview and the Overview's slip and labour-shortage alerts.
An EOT claim drafted straight from the Gantt when the programme runs past the extended completion.

What this page is for

A programme-lite record of the dates that matter commercially — not a planning tool. The planner keeps the programme in their own software; Saral reads it so the completion position, the slip and the EOT register sit beside the money. Nothing here moves a figure on the CVR; an EOT changes dates, and the loss and expense that follows is recorded on the Valuation.

Milestones

Each row carries three dates. Planned is the baseline. Forecast is your current expectation. Actual is the date it happened. Where a record already proves a date — the site register's start on site, a signed whole-site handover, a practical completion certificate — Saral shows it as the actual marked 'from records' until someone types one. The status pill (done, on track, slipped, late, unscheduled) follows from those dates and today.

Gantt and Look-ahead

The Gantt is read only: every imported phase, activity and milestone drawn over its baseline, with a button to raise an EOT claim pre-filled with the days by which the programme overruns the extended completion. The Look-ahead turns the imported activities into required operatives per trade per week; you book what each trade has confirmed, and the daily labour log on Site & design supplies the actual. The three figures never blur, and a trade short next week is flagged here and on the Overview.

Extensions of time

Record a claim when it is submitted — the relevant event and the days claimed — and complete it when the decision arrives with the days awarded and, where the contract sets one, the awarded completion date. Sectional completion is supported where the contract has sections. The awarded days extend the contract completion shown on the tiles and used by the cash-flow forecast. On an NEC job, time runs through compensation events on the NEC contract screen instead.

Who can do what

Anyone with the cost-report read sees the programme. Milestones and the import are the programme keeper's (PM, Planner). EOT claims are a commercial record. Each tab renders read only without its key.

Where next

Record delays and the claims behind them: NEC compensation events on NEC contract, contract notices and delay notices on Site & design → Contract notices, and loss and expense on the Valuation. Physical progress against the programme is assessed on Progress.

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