All seasoned superintendents record a daily diary of events on their projects. The daily report becomes the official daily diary of happenings for the project when an arbitrator wants to see how a project was built. Seasoned superintendents are very diligent in keeping this diary for themselves and for their organization. There are so many sections to a good daily report. The PCM sections are as follows:
Comments
Additional Comments
Equipment
Field Force
Visitors
Material Deliveries
Schedule
Weather
The following screenshot shows the Daily Reports module in PCM:
Each of these sections has many fields where information is stored about that particular day. Much of the information is also retrieved via drop-down lists to make it as easy and quick as possible. PCM also has the capability to lock the report by a manager so it is no longer editable.