One record per pile: what was bored, when, through what, and what went into it.
This is the record the client's engineer signs. It is filed per pile rather than per day, so each one carries its own levels, times, soil profile and concrete.
What goes on it
- Which pile — chosen from the pile register, which brings the design diameter, depth, cut-off and tip levels with it. Choosing the planned pile is what ties the day's work to the programme.
- Levels and depths — existing ground, cut-off, tip, casing. Impossible orders are refused: a tip level above the cut-off is not a typing preference.
- Times — boring start and finish, cage lowering, concreting start and finish. Durations and the total cycle time are worked out.
- Soil profile — the layers met, from the surface down, with the depth each one starts and ends at. Drawn as a column on the printed record.
- Concrete — the delivery tickets, one line each: docket number, volume, slump, time. The theoretical volume comes from the diameter and depth; the difference and the resulting overbreak percentage are calculated.
- Reinforcement — bar sizes, main and spiral bars, cage length. Underneath: CSL test pile (yes/no) and number of CSL tubes, because the tubes go down with the cage.
The checks it makes
Some are refusals, some are warnings:
- concrete poured that cannot be reconciled with the theoretical volume
- a cut-off level below the tip level, or a casing deeper than the bore
- boring that finishes before it starts
- a CSL pile with no tube count, or fewer than three tubes
- a soil profile whose layers leave a gap or overlap
A warning is a question, not a block: the site can file the record and explain it in the remarks.
Printing it
Any record prints as a PDF exactly as filed, with the soil column, the concrete lines and the signature block. That is the copy that goes in the file or to the consultant.
Who built the pile
The project card names the main contractor, and on a job with one crew that is the whole answer. On a highway it is not: different piers are piled by different firms.
So the pile record carries Piled by, chosen from the same company list as the daily production report — the slots you name under Admin → Companies. Leave it blank when your own crew did the work; that is the commonest case and there is nothing to type.
What is stored is the slot, not the name, so renaming a subcontractor later changes every sheet that mentions them without touching a single record. The printed sheet shows the firm's name under the parties at the top.