Site instruction log

Job register

Instructions given in the field — who gave them, to whom, when, and what happened about them.

The Tuesday morning conversation

A great deal of what gets built is decided by somebody saying something on site, and almost none of it is written down. A row per instruction — number, who gave it, who received it, the date, what was said, what happened — costs a minute and settles a category of argument that otherwise runs to lawyers.

It confers no authority

Nothing here decides whether an instruction was validly given, whether it is binding, or whether it entitles anybody to more money or more time. Those are questions for your contract and for whoever administers it. The log records that it was given and what happened.

Around it

A priced, agreed variation is a change order. A question you need answered in writing is an RFI, a decision somebody made is the project decision log, and time lost is the schedule delay log.

A record of instructions you were given or gave. It confers no authority, creates no obligation, decides nothing about whether an instruction is binding, and determines no entitlement to time or money. Everything runs on your device.

Questions people ask

Is an instruction logged here binding?
This tool does not say, and cannot. Whether the person who gave an instruction had authority to give it, and whether it binds anybody, is a question about your contract and about who signed what. The log records that it was given, by whom, and when — which is the fact nobody can otherwise establish later.
Does it mean I get paid for the extra work?
No. Nothing here decides entitlement to money or time. If you think an instruction changes cost or duration, that is a conversation and a process under your contract — usually a change order, sometimes a claim. Write down that you think so, in the notes; the tool has no opinion.
How is this different from a change order?
A change order is a priced, agreed variation to the contract, and it is a document both sides sign. A site instruction is somebody telling somebody else to do something on a Tuesday morning. Many of them are trivial; a few turn into change orders, and the log is what makes that possible to trace.
Who numbers the instructions?
You do, or whoever handed you the paper did. The tool generates no number, because an instruction numbered by this product is one nobody else on the job can find.