Labor counts arrive by text, work completed lives in a superintendent's notebook while weather and site notes land in email, if they get recorded at all. Every crew captures daily activity differently, and project managers spend the next morning chasing down what's missing.
Incomplete field logs weaken job costing and delay intervention when costs drift. They also make cross-project benchmarking harder and leave rework and miscommunication unaccounted for. Construction runs on tight margins of around 5%, as noted in the McKinsey margin analysis, so documentation failures translate directly into margin risk.
