Recently, I had a fruitful conversation with one of Cubicost user who works in a state-owned contractor company in Indonesia. The conversation was about his company practice when dealing with submission of progress claim to owner of the project and from his company subcontractors or foreman.

He mentioned to me that his company practice still adopts basic manual ways by utilizing spreadsheet and print-out demarcation drawing for progress claim submission. This is also probably the common practice in Indonesia as well. 

Figure 1: Marked shop drawing and progress claim spreadsheet

With the current practice, they will use the printout Shop Drawing and a pen marker to mark areas that have been constructed, and then they will use spreadsheet to submit quantity of work done whilst comparing to actual BQ.

However, the problem with this kind of submission is no direct link exists between the marked shop drawing and the spreadsheet, thus the construction stakeholders (owner representatives, consultant and contractor) will require to have a clarification meeting for the submission, and they will verify contractor progress claim submission.

Besides, it is difficult to determine if a project progress has achieved a certain percentage number in precise ways. All this-time percentages of progress are determined by actual physical works based on site examination and will be combined with shop drawing and BQs. Sometimes the perception of number of percentages is subjective and different among stakeholders.

How to do Progress Claim with Glodon Cubicost?

With the Building Information Modelling (BIM) based Cubicost TAS C-IV, which helps to model and generate Progress Claim, you could breakdown project quantities from floor quantities to any designated area-based quantities

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Figure 2: Progress claim segmentation on Glodon Cubicost TAS

All you need to do is to mark your designated area horizontally or vertically using progress claim based on work done. Once you mark the area and calculate the quantities, later you can display the corresponding quantity summary in View Quantity by Category section, where you can break down quantity based on marked area precisely.

With the Glodon Cubicost intelligent features, you can track quantity calculated to each individual entity, and check the formula of calculation, the deduction with other elements, or the arrangement between progress claims, so that your submission won’t have any repeated quantity from entities that have already been submitted in earlier progress claims.

Quantity obtained in Cubicost TAS can be linked with BQ imported in Cubicost TBQ, where you can generate BQ submission, save and keep tracking any changes applied to the BQ for bill items, quantities, even the pricing.

Figure 3: Link quantities obtained in Glodon Cubicost TAS to TBQ

With the emerging of IR 4.0 development and the impact of Covid-19 to the industry, the industry players need to adapt its current business to achieve efficient ways in every aspect of their works.

Good to know that Cubicost is able to handle progress claims, achieving higher efficiency by generating intuitive models, along with clearly displayed areas and precisely calculated quantities.

Summary

Progress claim is one of the most important activities in the Construction Project Lifecycle, where the contractor submits the progress of the work that have been completed to get payment from the project owner, by submitting supporting documents and obtaining the owner’s approval.

With Cubicost, you can generate model of your progress claim and track your quantity intelligently for individual entities. Besides, if any drawing changes to the model occurs, with easy model update and quantity calculation, the changed quantities will be auto linked to the original BQ item with just a click.

 Want to find more about Progress Claim workflow and Segmentation on Cubicost? Join our upcoming webinar to further understand how Glodon Cubicost plays an important role in AEC industry.