Recoveries backed by contemporaneous records.

Live UK infrastructure project

Increase in the certified amount

£300,000

Contemporaneous records supplied

One week

Evidence issued → certificate revised

~10 min

An interim application of ~£1.5m was initially certified at ~£1.2m. One week of contemporaneous diaries (labour, plant and progress recorded as the work happened) supported the valuation, and the certificate was revised to ~£1.5m. The diaries did not replace the contractual valuation; they gave the commercial team an immediate, structured record to support the amount applied for.

Live UK construction project

Additional instructed work claimed and paid

£350,000

Of additional work recorded contemporaneously

12 weeks

Captured against the instructed activities

Every hour

Additional work was raised on site with no instruction reference. Because Site Chronicle requires instructed work to be linked to an instruction, the site team flagged the gap, and the commercial team secured the instruction before the work accumulated. The next ~12 weeks were recorded against it: activities, labour, plant and every hour, on client-signed daily records. ~£350,000 was claimed and paid in full. The records supported the valuation but did not, by themselves, determine contractual entitlement.