The tool Costain's QS team refused to give up

13 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief presentation, William Doyle MRICS explains the Gather tool’s core functionalities for construction project cost control. Gather provides real‑time insight into performance against the forecast, highlighting whether spend is on track, overspending, or underspending. It enables teams to log and manage unexpected issues, such as work stoppages, by recording the exact hours a task was halted. Those inputted hours can then be accepted or rejected, with a negotiation process to determine the true cause. The captured data feeds directly into compensation events, supporting accurate claims and corrective actions. The overall message is that Gather offers a transparent, auditable workflow that turns raw project data into actionable cost‑management decisions.

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Gather gives us the information about how we're performing against the forecast, whether we're on track with our spend, or whether there's issues, we're overspending, we're underspending. It gives us the ability to identify that information and be able to act on it. The beauty of Gather is that it actually allows you, whilst you can descript and provide the information of what is required for the, for the shift, with all projects there is something that comes up and you can't manage. So we can manage that within Gather, and what that allows our team to do is to actually sign off a record that is accurate. So if someone comes across a piece of hard dig but we've got to continue, we'll record the hours that it was stopped. Inputted hours will be then accepted, rejected, and we'll negotiate and understand what the real reason was. And when the compensation event is then eventually put forward,