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On the sample projects you can now upload files, give Ask new data and change the master plan while signed in — every figure follows, and it is all cleared when your company signs out.
- NewSite records on a tablet or phone now carry what they are against and what they used: the project’s own activities, zones, crews and plant — from its program, BOQ and roster, with the general list still there — the BOQ item, the hours worked, the crew, each machine’s working and idle hours, and the weather, picked on site or read from the weather feed at the site.
- NewExecuted quantities are measured against the BOQ: each item shows its quantity to date, what remains and the value of work done, and recording beyond the BOQ quantity asks for the variation reference. A project you add uses its own BOQ; the sample projects carry a BOQ derived from their program, marked as such.
- NewSite records can need approval, project by project: switched on, a record shows on the dashboards as provisional until the site engineer or project manager approves it — then it counts — or returns it with a reason. Every step is kept with who and when. The sample projects start with it off, so a record moves the figures at once.
- NewProductivity, plant use and the activity completion rate are now measured from the site records — output per labor-hour against Egyptian trade norms, the activities furthest behind, each crew, plant utilization and idle cost, and the share of the day’s, week’s and month’s activities completed — on the Site dashboard, Workforce, Equipment, the Command Center and the reports. Figures still modelled are labelled so.
- NewField staff mark a program milestone achieved from site, with the day and a photo or site record as evidence; the master plan, Planning, Project 360 and the reports show it with its baseline, and it is locked unless the project manager corrects it with a reason.
- NewReports can be scheduled: daily, weekly or monthly at a Cairo time, to people in your own company — or, for the owner’s team, its members. Each issue is built on time, kept with its version, announced in the platform and e-mailed with its Excel copy when mail is set up; next and last run, Run now, Pause and Delete are on the list. A schedule on the sample projects stays in your company’s copy and is delivered in the platform only.
- NewLive status by location: a map of Egypt and Saudi Arabia drawn by the platform itself — no outside map service, so it works on your own servers and offline — with every project at its city, coloured by its status, and each site’s zones today; the executive pack lists the status by location.
- NewSite entries made with no signal wait on the device, marked “waiting to send”, and go in order when the signal returns — each one once, on the day it was made. An entry the server refuses, such as a record someone else changed meanwhile, is kept and shown with the reason to retry or discard, never dropped.
- FixedThe Command Center’s Project Health Matrix now follows the site records like every other screen: progress, schedule, cost, health and the forecast are the project’s live figures.
- FixedSmaller site fixes: the screens say site tablet, the crew buttons are a full finger’s size, the plant list uses English commas in English, zone names follow the screen’s language, and a sample blocker note reads in Arabic on the Arabic screen.
- FixedThe site record form starts each activity afresh: choosing another activity clears the planned and executed quantities and the variation reference typed for the last one — crew, hours, plant and weather stay — and a variation reference is kept only on a record that goes beyond its BOQ quantity.
- FixedA blocked activity’s decision now says what to do about that blocker — a written manning notice to the subcontractor, the RFI to the consultant with a 48-hour reply, the permit file to the authority, a fitter for a machine that broke down, the NCR closed with the consultant — read from its note in English or Egyptian Arabic, instead of always chasing the supplier.
- FixedOn a project whose site records need approval, a site update told to Ask says before you record it that it goes for approval, and afterwards “Sent for approval — counts once the site engineer or project manager approves it”, with the forecast shown only as what it would be if approved.
- FixedA milestone is never forecast before the work towards it is done: where today’s live lookahead runs a milestone’s own work past the program’s date, the milestone shows that date, marked as from the live lookahead, on the Milestones tab, the master plan, Planning, Project 360 and in Ask — and the lookahead is called the fortnight’s running work when it holds more than that milestone’s work.
- FixedThe daily site diary says which labor-hours the records state and which are the 8-hour day assumed, the same in its site and workforce chapters, and lists every activity blocked now; a blocker cleared by finishing the work shows as cleared on its card, never as current.
- FixedSmaller site fixes: hours lost to the weather are asked only for heat, wind, a khamaseen, rain or fog; approval stamps read their month in Arabic on the Arabic screens; hour counts agree with their number in Arabic; and the sample New Cairo roster carries the steel-fixing gang its rebar record names, so one fixer missing reads as nine of ten on site.
- FixedAsk answers “what should I act on first this week?” with today’s act-now items from the site records first — each with its EGP, its days and its action, as Live from site shows them on Decisions — then the decision queue in its order, and never counts them among the open decisions or in the cash at stake.
- FixedAsk answers every part of a question: “…and what is delaying it?” is answered from the records — the critical path, the causes on record and today’s site drivers — beside the dates and the slip; a part the records cannot answer is named, or goes to the configured model with the record figures held. Arabic answers write their dates in Arabic.
- NewThe tour after an upload now shows your data arriving: it opens on your files flowing into the screens they fill, their records counting up, and the figures the platform worked out from them; then each screen fills in as the tour reaches it — figures count up, bars and charts draw in, and the decisions light one by one. With reduced motion set, each screen is shown as it is.
- NewThe Upload Center takes files for the sample projects too. Progress against the program, NCRs, safety observations, a cost report, purchase orders or a program uploaded while you are signed in move that sample’s progress, forecast, cost at completion, decisions and Ask’s answers at once — for you and your colleagues only.
- NewAsk’s data input works on the sample projects: tell it what happened — typed, spoken, from a document or a photo — and it shows what it will record and what moves before you confirm. A blocked activity, a delivery running late, an NCR, a near miss, someone off sick or a plan change all move the sample’s figures and decisions.
- NewA change previewed on a sample project’s master plan can now be applied: the activity moves to its new dates, the forecast finish and site overheads follow, and a recommendation to win the days back joins the decisions.
- NewEvery register you upload to a sample project now moves its own screens: payment certificates move what is certified, paid, overdue and held as retention (and raise the collection to chase); variations, claims and extensions of time move the commercial position and the forecast final value; risks join the risk register; incidents, permits and toolbox talks move the safety figures; a roster moves people on site, each person counted once; inspections, tests and snags count in the quality figures; committed and actual cost move cost control; inventory and orders move the materials cover; and contract terms set the payment period, retention and delay-damages rate the figures use.
- ImprovedA plan change and a hold on the same activity are counted once: the larger of the two moves the finish, never both.
- ImprovedA client company’s login that does not upload to its own projects can still try uploads on the sample projects, in its own copy, cleared when it signs out.
- NewA working calendar set on a sample project now moves its figures: the work left is laid out over its working days — rest days, Egypt’s public holidays, Ramadan output and any shutdown — so the forecast finish, the slip, the master plan’s dates, site overheads, delay damages and the decision to win the days back all follow. Preview it with the finish before and after, from the sample’s panel in the Upload center.
- NewOn a sample project you can now set the status date, accept a reassignment or an overlap, add a dependency link or a new owner on the master plan, raise RFQs from the materials it still has to buy, compare the offers and award one, run the job agents on what you uploaded and download its workbook — all in your company’s copy, cleared when it signs out. No supplier is contacted from the platform.
- ImprovedRecords pulled from a connected system and phone-call updates still go only into projects you add — the screen says why where the sample projects are left out.
- ImprovedAll of it is your company’s own copy of the sample, cleared when the last of you signs out and every night at 03:00 Cairo time, so the next people find the samples as they were. The projects you add keep every change, as before.
- ImprovedA project your company adds is yours alone — other companies never see it, in any list, search, answer, report, export or notification, and asking for it by its link is refused; the sample projects stay open to everyone, and the owner’s team sees every project.
- ImprovedLoading the sample project or the large demonstration project gives each company its own copy; loading it again opens the copy you already have.
- ImprovedA client company’s login given a list of projects now also sees the projects its company adds. The public walkthrough shows the sample projects only, never a project someone added.
- ImprovedThe company tender history is read by every company, so only the owner’s team changes it.
- FixedThe Central Bank of Egypt’s rates of 29 October 2026 are in — overnight lending 21%, deposit 20%, main operation 20.5% — and the cost of carrying stock, the financing a decision saves and Ask’s market figures follow them.
- FixedThe power-plant sample is now an illustrative 1,200 MW combined-cycle station in Upper Egypt, sized to its contract — it no longer carries the name of a real plant finished in 2018.
- FixedEach sample project’s materials now fit its own budget: the logistics-hub floor is priced at about EGP 2,300 a m² (it read below the cost of its own concrete), and the distribution centre’s steel frame and cladding, the office park’s curtain wall, the retail park’s frame, the power plant’s cabling and the pharma plant’s PU screed carry their full weight.
- FixedCertified and received to date are now the sums of the certificate register below them — every certificate from the start; the table shows the latest four and any older one still owed.
- FixedA milestone, its phase and the project now quote one delay: a phase on the critical path is forecast on the project’s slip, and a last pour or raft that runs later is marked off the critical path with its float.
- FixedDays recoverable never exceed the delay: a decision that stops a stoppage before it happens shows the delay it avoids instead.
- FixedCost performance is read from what the cost ledger has booked, so CPI can differ from the budget-to-forecast ratio — the Cost screen shows the cost at completion it implies beside the forecast.
- FixedEvery late project shows its delay damages under its own contract, with the days still pending on extensions of time; a contract with no damages clause says so. An awarded extension moves the contract completion, and lateness is measured from it.
- FixedCrews held by an employer delay read as waiting for access, with the extension-of-time event — never as unproductive; and people on site are sized to the work each project turns over.
- FixedThe large demonstration project tells one story: the podium’s mall finishes follow its roof, the roof steel held at the port is the roof still going up, the final road surfaces follow the towers beside them, the towers are manned for their work, and the district records its medical-treatment injuries.
- FixedAsk names the project a recommendation belongs to, answers a portfolio question with the portfolio’s own figures first, and answers “what are the delay damages?” with the contract’s rate and the days late.
- FixedSmaller fixes: the flooring and coating jobs name their employers, snag counts follow the kind of building, a seasonal work rule shows only in its season, and the monthly cost of work no longer steps up and down between phases.
- FixedAsk answers every part of a question, or says plainly which part the records cannot answer; a question its built-in answers cannot cover in full goes to the configured model with the project’s records. «علينا كام» now reads as what we owe, never as what we are owed.
- FixedEvery model Ask uses — alone, answering together, or on a phone call — gets the same grounded rules and the Egyptian contracting context: FIDIC as used in Egypt, Law 182 of 2018, the HBRC codes, VAT Law 157 of 2025 and the Central Bank’s rates. The key figures — cost at completion, progress, finish, slip, cash at stake, open decisions, overdue and margin — are held to the project card in English and Arabic, and any amount, percentage or day count that is not in the records is taken out and named.
- FixedAsk answers safety, material prices, the people on site, the platform’s value and a project it does not hold from their own records, instead of the nearest decision; Arabic counts agree with their numbers, and a list is no longer cut at its first item.
- FixedA decision is approved by the side that owns it — the developer’s by the developer, the contractor’s by the contractor — and the approver follows the money a decision commits: awarding a package or serving a contractual notice goes to the Project Director, whatever its value of acting.
- FixedThe value of the open decisions is shown by kind — direct savings, losses avoided and cash that only moves earlier — each with its basis, and never as achieved; days count only on the critical path, never more than the slip, and an extension of time reads as damages relieved, not days saved. The sample “realized this year” figure is gone from the public pages and from Ask, and the sample count reads 14 projects.
- FixedA recommendation’s evidence score measures how strong its evidence is, not how complete its paperwork is: a loss counted as certain on an assumption cannot score “Very confident”.
- FixedThe forecast margin on the Cost screen and in Ask is shown before and after the delay damages no pending extension covers — Sheikh Zayed’s included — with the basis; the developer’s side is never shown the contractor’s budget, cost or margin in Ask.
- FixedCustom agents run as the person who made them — their side, screens and access, stopping when that access ends — never show the contractor’s margin to the developer’s side, notify only their own side, and every figure they write is checked against the records.
- FixedPlanning: a fast-track overlap keeps its link type and lag and never finishes a successor before its predecessor; only planning, project-management and leadership roles can change a plan; one absent worker costs today’s share of the gang, not weeks of slip; a day of delay has one price, the site overheads every decision uses; forecasts say they assume the rest goes to plan and show the finish at the rate achieved beside it; and Palm’s L10 pour quantities agree.
- FixedPalm’s Level 14 recovery now addresses its cause: the pick is a second concrete plant for the L10–L14 pours — the only path that speeds the pours — worth about EGP 1.5M once the delay damages it avoids are counted; the re-sequence is shown for what it does, and the Level 14 date is labelled a program forecast.
- ImprovedAsk is checked against golden answers in English and Egyptian Arabic, each held to the figure its screen shows.