Construction daily log sheet
Weather days, delay claims and back charges are argued months later, and the side with a log written on the day usually wins. Fill in today's log in five minutes at the gate: every line, with N/A where nothing happened, then print it or copy it into an email.
Your log
To keep the log with photos, names and times on every line, make it a daily checklist in tick-tock-done: it starts fresh each morning and the crew's hours come from the time clock.
How it works
The lines follow what the strictest daily reports ask for, boiled down for a small contractor: the federal quality control spec (UFGS 01 45 00) and state highway manuals that want an entry for every calendar day. A line with nothing in it prints as "Not filled in" until you tick "Nothing today", and then it prints N/A, so a blank can't later be read as "we forgot".
Crew-hours are people times hours for each line. A delay's lost time runs from its start to its end (past midnight too); with the number of people standing it gives the crew-hours lost. Equipment idle and down hours are added together, because idle equipment on a stopped job is a cost you can claim only if it was written down.
The weather flag uses the thresholds one state's weather delay section counts as an adverse day: rain over 0.10 inch, not above 32°F in the morning, wind over 25 mph, or more than 1 inch of snow on the ground. Your contract may use others, and a weather day counts toward a claim only beyond the bad days already expected for the month.
"New day" starts the next log for the same job with the crew and the equipment list carried over and their hours cleared. The last 14 logs stay in this browser; print or copy each one, because clearing the browser clears them.
Why each line is there, the notice clocks it feeds, a worked weather-day claim and the board decisions that turned on a missing log: The construction daily log: what to write down every day.