What slips at month-end
Hundreds of towers. Each at its own stage.
A line runs foundations, erection and stringing at once, across sections miles apart, each reporting in its own group. Nothing is totalled until month-end, so small things slip: diesel nobody totals by machine, foundation changes nobody put on record, loads nobody can trace.
Fuel
Cranes, stringing machines and generators. One diesel total.
Diesel goes to cranes and excavators at the towers, the stringing machines on each pull, the generators at the compound and the vehicles moving gangs and material between them. It's posted as a day's total, if at all.
By month-end nobody can say which machine used what, so the fuel invoice is paid as it comes and one running high stays hidden.
Ground conditions
Pad became piled at one tower. Valued at the old type.
A trial pit at the tower showed running sand and high groundwater, so the designer changed the pad to a piled foundation. The post said so; nothing else did.
If the ground differs from the Site Information, it may be a compensation event for physical conditions. Unrecorded, the tower is valued at the old type and the change is never notified.
Access
Landowner access held a stretch for weeks. The record is a scroll.
Site posted it each time the gang was turned away: access not agreed, crops still standing, a gate locked. Nobody logged when each tower was first held.
When time is argued, the record is photos across groups, and the notice period has long run out.
Material cost
Tower steelwork at the yard. Members short at the tower.
Tower steelwork, concrete and conductor drums arrive from several suppliers, each load with a delivery note, and move from the laydown yard to the towers.
When an erection gang reaches a tower to find members missing, nobody can say which load was short or where it went.
What Velora picks up
What your site groups already carry, in line terms.
Velora reads text, voice notes and photos in the groups your teams use today, and files each update by section and tower.
Foundations
Excavation and concreting by tower and leg, with quantities and photos.
Erection
Towers erected by number and type, counted when complete.
Stringing
Kilometres strung by section, with the towers it runs between.
Access and outages
Landowner access, outages and crossings, with the towers each one holds.
Changes
Foundation or tower type changes, logged with the tower and the trial pit log or instruction.
Deliveries
Tower steelwork, concrete, reinforcement, conductor drums and insulators by supplier, with delivery notes.
Fuel
Diesel issued to cranes, excavators, stringing machines, generators and vehicles.
Quality
Pour records, cube tests and tower checks before stringing, when they are posted.
Site teams change nothing. Velora joins each group as one more member.
What each team gets
Every team gets its part of the line.
Your QS gets the month's quantities in a report, contract triggers reach whoever you choose, project directors see every tower today, and leadership sees every project. Nobody has to ask site for an update.
This month's quantities, ready for the valuation.
Work done is matched to your BoQ or activity schedule and totalled for the month: cubic metres excavated and concreted, towers erected, kilometres strung. Each total opens into the towers, dates, photos and pour records behind it, and missing documents are followed up on WhatsApp once you switch follow-ups on. Velora tracks quantities; your QS applies rates and finalises the application.
See Billing IntelligenceThe contract triggers that are easy to miss.
Not just extensions of time and delay damages. Landowner access not given or an outage cancelled or moved by the system operator, but also ground at a tower that differs from the Site Information, or work ready but waiting on another contractor's: each is logged with its tower and the date it was first posted, matched to the clause it may trigger, such as a compensation event under NEC4, and whoever you choose is alerted the same day, whether that's site, your commercial team or your contracts manager, then reminded before the notice period runs out. Your team decides what to notify.
See Contract IntelligenceEvery tower, every day, without the calls.
Foundations, erection and stringing by section and tower, the access issues holding each one, deliveries by supplier and fuel by machine, from the groups your teams already post in. The daily and weekly reports are drafted from the same record, ready to review.
See Field IntelligenceEvery project in one view.
For the managing director or commercial director running several lines: the blockers that have waited longest for a decision, by section, and, where Billing is on, which quantities are still waiting on proof.
See Portfolio IntelligenceWorked example
The month's valuation, built from the site record.
Foundation quantities, towers erected and kilometres strung are each valued against their item. Velora keeps every total traced to its towers.
Totals per scope line
Excavation and concrete in cubic metres, towers erected and kilometres strung, each matched to its BoQ or activity schedule item.
A tower on every line
Every quantity keeps its tower and section, so your QS can trace it.
Proof that opens up
Every total lists its towers, dates, photos and pour records, before the application goes in.
Changes kept on record
A foundation or tower type changed on site stays on record with its trial pit log or instruction, so it can reach the valuation at the right type.
Illustrative figures
Getting started
What we'd need to start a pilot.
A pilot runs on one project and its live site groups. Your site teams don't change how they post.
A spare WhatsApp number
Linked to Velora and added to your site groups as one more member. No personal chats are connected.
Your site groups
The section, stores, plant and QC groups where updates are posted today.
Your scope
The BoQ or activity schedule, and the tower schedule with its towers and sections. Loaded once.
A sample chat export lets us test on your own messages before going live.
See it on your own project.
Talk to us about your line and we'll set up a pilot against its live WhatsApp groups and your BoQ or activity schedule.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions from overhead line project directors and QSs.
Overhead line work on National Grid ASTI and RIIO-T3 schemes, and DNO 132 kV and 33 kV lines: foundations, tower erection and stringing, filed by section and tower or pole number, wherever site teams report on WhatsApp.
Scope is loaded from your BoQ or activity schedule, with the tower schedule's towers and sections set up once. Work posted at a tower is matched to its item and totalled for the month. Comparing tower steelwork against the schedule's bill of materials needs a short setup at the start. Valuing by stage for each tower is something the team is still working on.
On a target contract you're paid Defined Cost, so Velora's quantities are your progress record against the activity schedule and target, and your compensation event record, not the payment itself.
From the tower number in the post, like "T148", matched against the towers set up for the line. A post with no tower, or one that isn't on the line, is kept for your team to place, not guessed.
Yes. Velora reads text, voice notes and photos in the languages your teams use, including photos of delivery notes, pour records and ground investigation logs, and keeps each original message with the record it created.
Each delivery is recorded by supplier, material and quantity, with its delivery note and the yard or tower it went to, and each tower erected by number and type. A deliveries report by supplier lets your team check each supplier's invoice. Velora doesn't match deliveries to purchase orders or invoices itself.
No. Those are the clauses every team watches. Velora also checks routine updates against the rest of your contract: ground that differs from the Site Information, an outage cancelled, work held up by another contractor, each matched to the clause it may trigger, such as a compensation event under NEC4, with the deadline and the record behind it. Whoever you choose, whether site, your commercial team or your contracts manager, is alerted the same day. Velora doesn't send notices. Contract Intelligence is in early access.
Yes. On water mains and road works, progress posted by chainage is totalled per BoQ item or activity schedule line, with the photos and documents behind each total.
We run a discounted pilot for the first three months on one project: the full product, with no long-term commitment.