Construction budget control
Compare planned, committed, invoiced and forecast cost by project and DIN 276 cost group to identify overruns before reviewing the underlying records.
Construction budget control: how it works in Home Builder Software
Budget answers the question a site meeting cannot: will this project still land where it was planned. Every figure sits on a DIN 276 cost group, and four columns run beside each other — budget, committed, invoiced and forecast — so a commitment signed three weeks ago already shows up as future cost instead of surfacing at final billing.
The rollup reads commitments from purchase orders that are sent, confirmed, partially or fully delivered, plus the award amount of every let package. Invoiced cost comes from expense and purchase entries once they are booked or paid. Forecast follows the commitment: as soon as something is ordered it becomes the higher of committed and invoiced, otherwise the plan value holds. Cost groups the plan never mentioned appear as their own unbudgeted line rather than staying invisible.
Recalculation runs after every purchase order, receipt or budget line that could move a column, and the as-of timestamp in the heading tells you when that last happened rather than when you opened the page. Variance per cost group drives the bar chart and the largest overrun headline, the header links straight to the award and purchasing records behind the committed column, and a line carrying commitments cannot be deleted.
Construction budget control in the daily routine
Commercial management opens Budget with a project selected, reads the largest overrun straight from the metric band, then walks down the cost group that carries the red variance and compares forecast with plan. The committed column links to the awards and purchase orders behind it, so the next click lands on the document that caused the jump. After a new order or a booked supplier receipt, Recalculate refreshes committed and invoiced, and the corrected figure travels back into the project file.
Read the documentationConstruction budget control: what it covers
See total budget, forecast, variance and largest overrun
Review cost-group values with positive and negative variance
Switch between projects that contain budget data
Construction budget control: questions and answers
What does the budget timestamp mean?
It shows when a budget line was last changed, not when the page was opened.
How is an overrun identified?
Forecast cost is compared with budget by cost group; overruns are highlighted and the largest one is named.
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