Construction dashboard: 12 data points that need an owner

The shared dimension for all the other data. Without it, progress, materials, and acceptances cannot be combined. Definition: work front.

The actual quantity, linked to a bill-of-quantities item. Source: as-built measurement, not a percentage estimate. Contract counterpart: „Rejestr obmiarów” (the measurement register). The GDDKiA specification describes it as a document that allows "the actual progress of each element of the works" to be settled, kept continuously, in the units adopted in the bill of quantities — with entries made by the Site Manager and confirmed by the Engineer. If your field lacks that confirmation, you have a number, not a basis for settlement.

When the works were performed — not when someone got around to entering them. Confusing these two dates is the most common source of false progress "jumps" on charts.

The link to the directive schedule. Without it you can compute progress, but not deviation.

An enum, never a free-text field — otherwise after six months you have twenty variants of the word "ok". But note: the values of this enum cannot be hard-coded. The GDDKiA specification lists four acceptance types (works that become hidden or covered up, partial, final, post-warranty). The PKP PLK PFU — six, with its own definitions, including the operational acceptance („odbiór eksploatacyjny”), after which the commission "determines the necessary restrictions for train traffic". The CPK OPW has no acceptance chapter at all. Three contracts, three different status dictionaries.

The date of the acceptance protocol. The starting point of the payment and warranty deadlines.

An unambiguous statement of what the protocol covers: a BoQ item, a structure, or a work front. A verbal description is not enough for settlement. On a GDDKiA contract, partial acceptance has a document of its own — the Świadectwo Przejęcia (Taking-Over Certificate), issued by the Engineer under the sub-clauses on taking over the Works and Sections — while final acceptance is confirmed by a final works acceptance protocol drawn up to the Employer's template. Two different artifacts, and the register must tell them apart.

Compared against the quantity completed. A gap between "completed" and "invoiced" is the earliest signal of trouble in contract settlement.

Ordered / delivered / approved / installed — four separate states, not one "quantity" column. Details: material register.

Which stage of the approval workflow the case is at. Answers the question "who holds the decision right now".

Lets you measure idle time instead of guessing it. One of the cheapest fields with the highest analytical payoff.

An expert judgment — but with a mandatory justification and date. The only field on this list that is an opinion, and precisely for that reason it must be clearly labeled as one.