Construction Project Controls Excel Template
One structured Excel workbook covering schedule, cost, payments, claims and variations, procurement, guarantees, risk, quality and workforce — with a computed executive dashboard on top of the registers your team already keeps.
More than a template. Less than another software platform.
€99 one-time payment. Instant download. Runs in Excel 365 / 2021 / 2019 — no macros, no add-ins.
One system instead of multiple construction spreadsheets
On most projects, the commercial picture is spread across separate files: a cost sheet from the quantity surveyor, a payment application log kept by the commercial manager, a procurement list held by the buyer, a variations tracker maintained in someone's inbox, and a programme that only the planner opens. Each one is defensible in isolation. Together, they rarely agree.
The practical consequence is time. Before a monthly report or a client meeting, someone reconciles the files by hand — and the numbers presented are already a week old. When a question is asked that nobody prepared for, the answer takes days.
CommandSites replaces that arrangement with one workbook. The registers stay recognisable to the people who keep them, but they feed a single computed layer, so the reported position is the position the team entered.
What can you control with CommandSites?
The workbook covers the project-control functions used on live construction projects:
- Executive Dashboard — Every project's status, on one page, without asking anyone to build a report
- AI Morning Briefing — Start the day with what needs a decision — not with reconstructing what happened yesterday
- Execution Schedule — See a delay before it becomes unavoidable
- KPI Center — One number, built transparently from the metrics that actually matter
- Milestones — Contractual dates, in the same workbook as the risk that threatens them
- Cost Breakdown — See a cost overrun accumulating, one cost code at a time
- Claims & Variations — Protect entitlement from the day an event occurs, not the day it is priced
- Guarantees — Never discover an expired bond by accident
- Procurement — A late award is a schedule risk before it's a procurement problem
- Payments — Know the gap between certified value and cash in hand — before it becomes a cash flow problem
- HR & Project Readiness — Know your single points of failure before the schedule finds them for you
Built for construction project teams
The structure follows how commercial and delivery responsibilities are actually split on site:
- Project Managers — one page showing schedule, cost and commercial status together
- Project Controls Managers — a consistent register structure across every project
- Commercial Managers — claims, variations, payments and exposure in one place
- Contract Managers — contract dates, obligations and guarantee expiry tracked, not remembered
- Quantity Surveyors — measured cost against budget, committed and forecast
- Construction Managers and contractors — procurement and readiness before it becomes delay
Excel flexibility without starting from scratch
Excel is not the product — it is the delivery method. It matters because it removes the two things that usually stop project controls from improving: procurement of new software, and the training period that follows. Your team opens a file it already knows how to use.
What Excel does not give you by default is structure. Column definitions, register relationships, weighted KPI logic and protected computed sheets are exactly what a blank workbook lacks — and exactly what CommandSites supplies.
What you get with CommandSites
- Twelve linked sheets covering the full project-control set
- 928 live formulas — computed sheets, not manual summaries
- Executive Dashboard with category scorecards and readiness tiles
- KPI Center with a weighted Executive Index
- AI Morning Briefing sheet for the daily management routine
- Readme-UserMap guide explaining every sheet and column
- Protected computed sheets to prevent accidental overwrite
- No macros or add-ins — runs in Excel 365 / 2021 / 2019
Delivery is immediate: pay once, download the current release, and keep a permanent personal access link for future versions.
Why CommandSites instead of another construction software platform?
More than a template. Less than another software platform. A free template gives you a blank register with no relationship to anything else. A platform gives you structure, but asks for licence approval, an implementation project, data migration and a training programme before it reports anything.
CommandSites sits deliberately between the two: the structure and computed reporting of a controls system, deployed in a file your team can open this afternoon. Read more about how the system is put together or the weekly update routine.
Explore more construction project controls
Each function below is part of the same workbook — not a separate purchase. See how the rest of the system fits together.
Budget, committed, actual and forecast in one cost breakdown.
Order status against the dates the work actually needs materials.
Every variation from submission to approval, with value and status.
Submitted, certified, paid and outstanding — visible at a glance.
Probability, impact, owner and mitigation next to project performance.
Contract register, obligations, deadlines and guarantee expiry.
Put the whole project into one controls system.
One workbook, all eleven modules, immediate download. €99 one-time — no subscription, no renewal.
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