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Electrical Contractors

Site and material software for electrical contractors

Most of your work ends up inside walls and ceilings. The record of it should not.

Conduit goes into the slab before the pour, wiring goes behind plaster and false ceilings, and cable leaves the store by the drum. By handover almost nothing you installed is visible — so what you can prove depends on what was recorded while it was still open, and on knowing where the material actually went.

Electrical ContractorsHow a day runs on buildcontrol
1
Material is issued to the site
Cable, conduit and fittings are booked against the site they go to.
2
Crews are marked present
Electricians, helpers and subcontract gangs, per person per day.
3
The day’s work is logged
What was done, and where, recorded from site.
4
Concealed work is checked before it closes
Conduit and wiring are inspected and photographed before the pour or plaster.
5
Handover records are ready
Checks, photographs and snags sit on the project for the client.
The problem

What actually goes wrong

These are the four things that come up in almost every conversation with an electrical contractor.

Material disappears between store and siteCable, conduit, switches and fittings go out in bulk. Nobody can say how much went to which site, what came back, or why the job needed another drum.
Progress is reported, not recordedThe supervisor says the second floor is “almost done”. The client sees it differently, and the bill waits while both sides argue from memory.
Crews move between sites every dayElectricians and helpers are split across several jobs. Wages are paid on headcounts nobody wrote down, and gang bills cover days that are hard to check.
The proof is behind the plasterConduit in the slab and wiring above the ceiling cannot be inspected once they are closed. When a fault or a dispute comes up, there is no dated photograph of what was installed.
Modules that matter most

Start with these four

buildcontrol has eleven modules, but you do not need all of them on day one. For an electrical contractor, these carry the weight.

Material Management

Stock, purchase orders and issues to each site, so cable, conduit and fittings are traced from purchase to the site that used them, with returns booked against the same job.

Explore module

Attendance Management

Electricians, helpers and subcontract gangs marked per person per day, so wages and gang bills are checked against a record instead of a headcount.

Explore module

Daily Worksheet

A dated log of what each site did each day — floors, areas and work completed — so the progress you report and bill comes from the site record.

Explore module

Quality Control

Inspection checklists and dated photographs of concealed work before it is closed, and snags raised and cleared before handover.

Explore module
Add later, once the first four are running
  • Payment Management, for supplier dues and subcontractor payments against each project
  • Equipment Management, for testers, cable pullers, scaffolding and generators moving between sites
  • Task Management, where layouts and single-line diagrams sit with the task they belong to
Probably not for you: CRM rarely applies to an electrical contractor, since it is built for developers selling units rather than for winning and running contract work.
How it runs

One day, end to end

1

Material goes out against the site

Cable, conduit and fittings are issued from the store to a named site, so each site’s consumption builds up as it is issued.

2

Crews are marked in the morning

Electricians, helpers and gang members are recorded per person, per site, per day.

3

The day’s work is logged from site

The supervisor records what was completed and where, with photographs, while it is still fresh.

4

Concealed work is checked before it closes

Conduit before the slab is poured and wiring before the ceiling is closed are inspected and photographed against the site.

5

Handover is already documented

Inspections, snags and photographs are on the project when the client or main contractor asks for them.

Who uses it

Every role, one system

Access is controlled by role, so people see what they need and nothing else.

RoleWhat they do in buildcontrol
Proprietor / DirectorEvery site, material consumption and dues in one view
Project ManagerProgress by site, crews deployed, snags outstanding
Site Supervisor / ForemanDaily work log, attendance, inspections with photographs
StorekeeperMaterial received, issued to site and returned
AccountsSupplier and subcontractor dues, payments made
Client / Main ContractorRead-only progress and quality visibility
Questions

Questions we get from electrical contractors

No, and it is not meant to. Design, load calculations and drawings stay in the tools you already use. buildcontrol records what happens on site — material issued, work done, crews present and checks carried out — so the job is documented as it is built.
Yes. Material is issued against the site it goes to, and returns are recorded against the same site, so consumption per site comes from the issue record rather than a stock count at the end of the job.
Yes. Access is by role, and a client or main contractor can be given read-only visibility of progress and quality on their project without seeing anything else.
Yes. Inspections in Quality Control carry checklists and dated photographs, so work inside slabs, walls and ceilings is on record before it is closed.
Yes. Each site is its own project with its own material, crews and records, and reports run across all of them, so you can see every site without opening each one.
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