Track, review, and approve construction project scope changes. Submit change order requests with attachments, automatically calculate their impact on project cost, and adjust budgets upon approval. Maintain versioned audit trails and status tracking to ensure compliance, transparency, and project continuity.
Bauwise streamlines construction change orders to improve cost control, speed up approvals, and keep projects on budget.
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Define custom change order types to categorize and track project changes based on their origin — client requests, internal adjustments, budget corrections, or estimator-identified scope changes. These types are set and managed by administrators to match organizational workflows, enabling clear categorization, better tracking, and simplified approvals and reporting.
Initiate construction change orders to adjust existing budget lines or introduce entirely new scope. Address both minor and major scope changes quickly and accurately. Handle simple corrections or complex scope additions within a single, streamlined interface.
Link change orders directly to commitments like subcontractor contracts or purchase orders (PO) to keep financials in sync with contractual realities. Ensure all stakeholders—from project managers to financial controllers—work from the same source of truth. Reduce discrepancies between field execution and financial tracking, and eliminate gaps between scope changes and cost tracking.
Track the impact of construction change orders in the project budget view with new or modified budget lines automatically highlighted and linked back to the corresponding change order. Every change includes a complete audit trail showing who made it and when—ensuring clarity for cost control, internal reviews, audits, claims, and client communication.
Track how change orders impact revised project revenue using overall project level or individual budget line. The dual-level tracking enables to manage revenue changes based on your team’s preferred income recognition and client billing approach. Maintain an accurate picture of profit margins and earned value. Bauwise ensures all client-requested changes are captured and billed, so no revenue opportunity is missed.
Access all change orders — regardless of status or type — from a single centralized change order list. Monitor the full lifecycle of every change order and stay on top of scope adjustments across subprojects.
Managing €10B+ in Construction Budgets with Bauwise
Automatically updates transactions from integrated accounting software. Compares actuals to cost forecasts to ensure budget accuracy and spot overruns. Captures actuals for all commitments, including purchase orders (POs) and contracts. Provides drill-down into any level of transaction or cost line for full visibility.
Uses AI-powered invoice reading to extract data directly from invoice files. Automatically detects and applies approval workflows based on the role hierarchy. Enforces approval limits, automatically restricting invoices that exceed the set threshold. Supports invoice splitting across budget lines to ensure the project stays within budget limits.
Allocate budget based on construction stages or buildings. Track Forecast to Complete (FTC) and Estimate at Completion (EAC). Control budgets through versions and approval locks. Forecast profitability, manage accruals, and sync financial data with integrated accounting or ERP software.
Change orders in construction are a formal, signed contract amendment that alters project scope, cost, or schedule. Construction change orders are typically used for unforeseen site conditions, design revisions, client-requested upgrades, or regulatory requirements. A change order specifies the change, price adjustment, schedule impact, and supporting documents — like revised drawings or specs. To maintain control and reduce disputes, change orders require approval from both the owner and the contractor.
Change orders are classified in two ways:
Things like design changes, unforeseen conditions, value engineering, or access constraints are often confused for types, but they are reasons for change orders. They can be additive or deductive and priced using any of the methods above.
Effective construction change order management ensures project integrity, schedule adherence, and budget control. To manage construction change orders:
Construction change orders must be tracked as they alter scope, cost, and schedule. Tracking ensures that all changes and costs are approved in writing by both contracting parties, and accounted for. This prevents unbilled work, keeps budgets and Estimate at Completion (EAC) accurate, ensures schedules reflect reality, and helps avoid disputes. The audit trail also supports accurate reporting and margin control.
You should ask for construction change orders whenever scope, cost, or schedule changes — before doing the work. Typical triggers include owner requests, design revisions, unforeseen conditions, code or regulatory changes, access constraints, or request for information (RFI) clarifications that alter work. Construction change orders must be submitted in writing with a clear description, cost and schedule impacts, and revised drawings/specs attached. For urgent work, use a Construction Change Directive (CCD) or an equivalent instruction under your contract, and follow up with a formal change order.
Standard construction change orders include:
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