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Daily construction report · DCL-2026-4K7Q2

Maple Street Retail Buildout

Friday, 9 May 2026 · 07:00 to 16:30

SubmittedSubmitted 9 May 2026, 16:42
Client
Oakfield Development Group
Site
1204 Maple St, Unit A, Chicago IL
Contract
OD-2026-114
Recorded by
J. Hartley, site supervisor
Crew on site
20 workers · 142 labour hours
Photos
6 · all verified in app
Partly cloudy, 72°F, wind 9 mph, humidity 54%, no rain 1 delay · rebar delivery 2 h late

1 Work performed

Completed slab prep and rebar placement at grid B4. Electrical conduit rough-in on level one: south corridor complete, north corridor 60%. Interior wall framing in the south wing, 14 of 22 bays. Staged framing lumber at the south entrance for tomorrow. East perimeter grading finished, drainage flow confirmed.

Areas
Grid B4, level 1, south wing, east perimeter
Subcontractors
Volt Electric
Planned tomorrow
Pour B4 slab, finish north wing framing

2 Labour

20 workers · 142 hours
TradeCompanyWorkersHoursNotes
Concrete formingOwn crew87.5Slab prep at grid B4
Electrical rough-inVolt Electric46Level 1 conduit run
Site gradingOwn crew25East perimeter
FramingOwn crew68Interior walls, south wing

3 Equipment

EquipmentQtyHoursStatusNotes
Mini excavator15ActiveEast grading
Scissor lift26ActiveElectrical rough-in
Concrete mixer10IdleAwaiting rebar

4 Materials and deliveries

ItemSupplierQuantityTimeStatus
Framing lumber 2×6×16BuildRight Supply120 pcs08:10Received
Rebar #4, 20 ftMetro Steel60 sticks10:052 h late

5 Delays and issues

Material delivery08:00 to 10:05 · Responsible: Metro Steel · Resolved

Rebar arrived 2 hours late. Placement at B4 moved to the afternoon. No effect on tomorrow.

Equipment idle07:00 to 09:30 · Responsible: Metro Steel · Resolved

Concrete mixer idle until rebar placement was confirmed.

6 Safety

Incidents
None
Toolbox talk
Done, 07:05
PPE checked
Yes
Housekeeping
Walk at 14:30

All workers in hard hat, hi-vis and steel toes at start of shift. South entrance staging area cleared. First aid kit location confirmed with crew leads.

7 Photos

6 · time, GPS and hash on each
Rebar placement, slab B4, before pour2026-05-09 09:12 · 41.878114, -87.629798 (±6 m)
Rebar placement, slab B4, before pour Verified: taken in app · SHA-256
Pour under way, B4 west half2026-05-09 10:41 · 41.878102, -87.629811 (±5 m)
Pour under way, B4 west half Verified: taken in app · SHA-256
Column cages C2–C5 tied and plumb2026-05-09 12:03 · 41.878131, -87.629760 (±8 m)
Column cages C2–C5 tied and plumb Verified: taken in app · SHA-256
South wing interior framing2026-05-09 13:27 · 41.878090, -87.629845 (±7 m)
South wing interior framing Verified: taken in app · SHA-256
Toolbox talk, 07:05, full crew2026-05-09 07:05 · 41.878120, -87.629790 (±9 m)
Toolbox talk, 07:05, full crew Verified: taken in app · SHA-256
Metro Steel rebar delivery arriving 10:05 (2 h late)2026-05-09 10:05 · 41.878160, -87.629700 (±11 m)
Metro Steel rebar delivery arriving 10:05 (2 h late) Verified: taken in app · SHA-256

8 Final notes

GC reviewed progress at 13:00 and approved B4 slab for pour. Framing crew back at 07:00 to finish the north wing. Forecast clear, no delays expected.

Supervisor signatureJ. Hartley · signed 16:42
Client / PM review 
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What a construction daily report should include

Every template you can download asks for roughly the same ten things. The difference is whether they get filled in every day. This is the checklist the sample above follows.

  1. 1

    Date, project, location and who filed it

    The three things a dispute turns on first. If any is missing the report is hearsay.

  2. 2

    Weather for the day

    Temperature, conditions, rain and wind. Weather delays are the most common claim and the easiest to disprove without a record.

  3. 3

    Work performed and where

    What was done, in which area or grid line, and what is planned next. Enough that someone who wasn't there can follow progress.

  4. 4

    Labour by trade and company

    Head count and hours per trade, own crew and subcontractors separately. This is what a labour-inefficiency claim is built from.

  5. 5

    Equipment on site and its status

    Working, idle or broken, with hours. Idle equipment is money; broken equipment is a delay in waiting.

  6. 6

    Deliveries and materials

    What arrived, from whom, at what time, received by whom. A late delivery noted the same day is evidence; remembered a month later it is an opinion.

  7. 7

    Delays, with cause and responsible party

    Type, start and end, impact and who owns it. Keep it factual; the delay register is what the extension-of-time claim quotes.

  8. 8

    Safety: toolbox talk, PPE, incidents

    Even 'no incidents' is worth recording daily. A gap in the safety log reads as a day nobody checked.

  9. 9

    Photos with time and location

    Photos prove nothing without a captured time and place. Stamped, hashed photos do.

  10. 10

    Sign-off and a tamper-evident seal

    Who submitted it and proof that it has not been edited since.

Daily report template or an app?

A Word or Excel daily report template is free and fine for a crew that will actually type it up every evening. In practice the template is filled on Friday for the whole week, photos live in someone’s phone gallery, and the weather column says “fine”.

  • The app fills the same ten sections from two minutes of talking.
  • Photos are taken in the app, so the time and GPS are captured and stamped, not typed.
  • Weather is looked up for the date and address; nobody argues about it later.
  • Submitting seals the record. A template PDF can be edited by anyone with Word.
  • The Free plan covers one project, which is what most people are downloading a template for.
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How this sample was made

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