Construction Schedule Template for Excel, Gantt With Trades, Hold Points and Permits

Seller's description

A construction schedule in Excel that moves when the job moves.

Everything in our Project Planner + Gantt, plus the columns site work needs: the trade on each task, inspection hold points, and permits with their status. The dashboard lists open hold points and permits not yet approved.

WHAT IT DOES
- Type tasks with a duration in working days; start and end dates are calculated
- Real dependencies: finish-to-start links to the task that must finish first, with lag or overlap
- Working week of your choice (Mon-Fri, Mon-Sat, Sun-Thu, Sat-Wed or 7 days) and your own holiday list, for any country
- Automatic Gantt chart: day or week view, % done shading, milestones, today line, shaded non-working days
- Status updates itself: Done, On track, Behind, Overdue, Not started, compared with the plan on your status date
- Phases roll up dates and % done from their tasks
- RAID log: risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies with probability x impact scoring and overdue flags
- Resource load: work days per person per week and % of their capacity, red when overloaded
- One-page dashboard: actual vs planned progress, overdue tasks, upcoming milestones, phase progress, open risks, charts

CONSTRUCTION EXTRAS
- Trade column with your own trade list
- Hold point? + inspection note on any task or milestone
- Permit / approval + status (To apply, Applied, Approved, Rejected); open items turn amber
- Dashboard: open hold points by date, permits not yet approved

WHAT'S INSIDE
- Filled example: an office fit-out on one floor (4 phases, 22 tasks and milestones, 5 leads, 11 trades, 4 hold points, 3 permits)
- Blank copy for your job
- 4-page PDF quick-start guide

WORKS WITH
A script opened this file in Microsoft Excel for Mac 16.114.3 and ran a full recalculation. Every cell matched the values stored in the file, with no error cells. That test did not type new data. Excel for Windows, older Excel versions and Google Sheets have not been tried. The formula tests ran in LibreOffice.
No macros, no add-ins. Formula cells are protected without a password, so you can't break them by accident, and you can still unlock them. Best edited on a computer; phone apps can view.

GOOD TO KNOW
- Instant digital download: a .zip with the filled example, a blank copy and a PDF guide. Nothing is shipped.
- Licence: for your own use and use inside your own business. Please do not resell or share the files.
- A problem opening the file? Message us and we'll help.
- Planning aid only. Hold points and permit fields are reminders: follow your contract, the authority having jurisdiction and your safety plan. No warranty of fitness for any purpose.

HOW THIS WAS MADE
We designed these workbooks and wrote the formulas, guide text and the scripts that build the files with the help of AI tools. Scripts recalculated each file in LibreOffice and compared it with a separate Python calculation across 7 test cases, including edge cases. The listing photos are real screenshots of the files (no AI-generated images).