Temporary site services

Built for temporary
site services,
by one.

A UK temporary site services firm needs to price on measured rates, value the work on site, track plant through the store and bill from the signed measure. Unibuild is bespoke construction management software built for that: Advanced Estimating, rate valuations, stores and applications for payment. It was written in 2016 for a provider of temporary power, site electrics, water and welfare, and has run that business every working day since.

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Unibuild software built for UK temporary site services providers

Your week

You tender on rates, so the
margin is decided before
anybody turns up.

Then the work gets measured on paper, or not at all. By the time the application goes in, somebody is rebuilding a month from memory and a diary.

Tender stage

Priced from a workbook nobody has reviewed since 2023, because reviewing it is nobody's job.

Margin set blind

Week three

Work measured on a scrap of paper in a van. The paper does not make it back before Friday.

Never billed

Any Tuesday

A tower is on two jobs at once according to the spreadsheet, and on neither of them in reality.

Bought again

Month end

The valuation is rebuilt from recollection, then disputed, because nothing was signed at the time.

Argued down

Back at the store

Something comes back broken and nobody can say which site it came from.

Absorbed

Friday, 16:10

The principal contractor wants the certificate for the supply you installed last month. Today.

Two hours gone

The pattern Every one of these is a record that was never made Not a person who did not care

Temporary powerSite electricsTemporary distributionSite lightingTemporary waterWelfare unitsHygiene servicesMeasured ratesRate valuationsBin locationsSigned delivery notesCollectionsDamage rechargeApplications for paymentRetention Temporary powerSite electricsTemporary distributionSite lightingTemporary waterWelfare unitsHygiene servicesMeasured ratesRate valuationsBin locationsSigned delivery notesCollectionsDamage rechargeApplications for paymentRetention

What matters most to you

Six parts of the platform, in the order your business would actually feel them.

All six are proven in a temporary site services business, because that is the business the platform grew up inside. This is unusual and it is worth saying plainly: you would not be the first firm of your type on it.

Advanced
Estimating

Sectional build ups priced from your own catalogues and price lists, with kits that price a whole assembly on one line.

Markup snapshotted onto the estimate at creation
A later rate change cannot alter a tender already issued
Per line locking, so a bulk reprice leaves negotiated rates alone
Estimate templates and section autofill

Proven since 2016Live

Rate
valuations

The measure captured on site in the week the work was done, by the person who did it, priced from that contract's own rate card.

Claimable hours capped at the estimated allowance
The cap applies in the app, at the point of entry
Client signs on the screen before anyone leaves site
Photographs attached to the claim

The operational coreLive

Stores, deliveries
and collections

Picking against the actual bin quantities and the actual serial numbers you hold, not against a figure that was right in January.

A pick can split across bins and cannot over allocate
Receiver signs on handover
Confirming the note moves the stock and the asset location
Site to site transfers without a pointless return trip

Signed chain of custodyLive

Applications
for payment

Assembled from work already measured and already approved, rather than rebuilt every month from four sources.

Retention held as a running figure
The previously certified position calculated
Aged debt bucketed and grouped by manager
Approved work never claimed, surfaced as a queue

Measured work to cashLive

Safe isolation
permits

The four part structure your engineers will recognise as the real thing: authorise, accept, sign off, cancel.

Points of isolation and points of earthing identified
Switching schedules for sequenced isolations
Office configurable permit questions
Limitation of access forms

Temporary electricalLive

Chlorination and
water testing

Disinfection certificates with the readings recorded as individual pass or fail results, and the monitoring dates watched.

Free chlorine, total chlorine and turbidity, before and after
Contact time and the standard worked to
Tester and acceptor both sign
Water testing and filter changes on a warned schedule

Temporary waterLive

One job, start to finish

Tendered, installed, measured, collected
and paid for, on one record.

01
Price it
Sectional build upKitsMarkup classes
02
Win it
Estimate to jobRate cardPrice list assigned
03
Deliver it
Picked on serialsSigned noteStock moves
04
Measure it
On site, that weekCapped to allowanceClient signature
05
Collect it
Upcoming collectionsDamage flaggedBack into stock
06
Get paid
ApplicationRetentionAged debt

The join The measure that was signed on site is the measure on the application Nothing is rebuilt

The regimes you live under

Temporary electrical and temporary water
carry their own compliance estate.

Unibuild records, evidences and prompts.
The duty stays with the duty holder.

01Electricity at Work Regulations 1989: Regulations 12 and 13 require suitable means of cutting off the supply and isolating equipment, with adequate precautions against equipment made dead becoming charged. The permit records the declaration that the equipment has been made dead, isolated and earthed, identifying the specific points of isolation, the specific points of earthing and where danger signs are placed.
02BS 7671: Unibuild produces the EIC, the EICR and the Minor Works Certificate, branded to your firm, and holds everything around them: the job, the labour, the client and site record, the isolation permit, the test instrument and its calibration status, the document store and the audit trail.
03ACOP L8 and HSG274: The water hygiene and legionella regime. Unibuild holds the monitoring dates the written scheme produces, per client, per project and per named location, assigned to a person, warned thirty days ahead and turning red once late. The assessment and the written scheme remain the work of your competent person.
04BS 8558 and BS EN 806-4: Disinfection before a system is put into service. The chlorination certificate names the standard worked to, records the contact time, and holds the before and after readings with the bacterial sample taken after flushing.
05PUWER 1998: Work equipment suitable, maintained in efficient working order, and inspected where safety depends on it. Every item in the plant holding is an individual record with its own service history and its own repair history.
06LOLER 1998: Where you hold lifting accessories, the movement record identifies which physical unit was on which site and when. Thorough examination reports are held against the unit as attachments, and for a business holding slings or chain blocks a dedicated examination register is built as part of implementation.
07CDM 2015: You are a contractor on somebody else's site. Project records carry the F10 notification flag, RAMS and construction phase plans are held against the job, and permits, toolbox talks and site records all attach to the same project.
08Calibration traceability: Every test instrument with its make, model, serial number, the engineer holding it and its calibration expiry, warned thirty days out and coloured red once passed. The calibration house's certificate is attached to the record that carries the date.

Questions from your sector

Asked by people who
supply site services.

What software should a UK temporary site services firm use?

Software that carries a job from the measured-rate tender to the application for payment without anybody rebuilding it in between. Unibuild is bespoke construction management software for UK temporary site services firms: Advanced Estimating, rate valuations signed on site, stores with deliveries and collections, and applications for payment. Your supervisors use your own staff app, published on the App Store and Google Play under your company's name and icon.

Our rates differ from job to job. Does that work?

That is the normal case here rather than the exception. Every job carries its own labour rate card across all rate types, its own markup and its own assigned price list. Two jobs running the same week value the same hours differently, correctly, without anybody remembering which is which.

What stops a supervisor claiming more than was priced?

On jobs that came from an estimate, the claimable hours for each section are capped at the estimated allowance less whatever has already been approved. A claim inside the allowance can approve automatically. One that exceeds it is refused in the app at the point of entry, before it becomes an argument with your client's surveyor. Over claiming is prevented rather than corrected.

How do we stop plant being left on finished jobs?

There is a standing view of jobs that are finishing with equipment still allocated to them. It is a working list the store goes through rather than a notification. That is usually enough, because the problem was never that people did not care, it was that nobody could see what was still out.

Our clients will not sign on a phone.

Most site representatives sign readily when they are being shown exactly what is being claimed, for work they have just watched being done. The signature is captured with their typed name, the date and space for a remark, so it reads as a considered acceptance rather than a scrawl on a pad. Where one will not sign, the valuation still goes through.

We already have a stores spreadsheet. What does this add?

A spreadsheet records what somebody remembered to type. This records what physically moved, because the movement and the record are the same action: the picker selects the serial number, the receiver signs, and the ledger posts. It also tells you which bin the stock came out of, which no spreadsheet does.

How much of our price file do we have to load?

Data migration is included, and the price file is where your own review matters most. Your existing file is mapped to categories, units and suppliers, imported, and then reviewed. Unibuild then measures the result for you: a page counts every item still missing a fit time, a price or a rate, so completeness is a number you can chase rather than a feeling.

Is this really built for our sector, or adapted to it?

Built for it. Advanced Estimating, the rate valuations, the bin locations, the signed delivery and collection notes, the damage recharge and the retention engine all exist because a temporary site services business needed them and asked for them, one problem at a time, over a decade. A second business in construction contracting now runs on the same platform using a different half of it, which is the evidence that it adapts as well as fits. When a firm needs something new, Unibuild builds it. Changes asked for after go-live are included in the monthly fee rather than charged at a day rate. That is how bespoke construction software works here: the fit of a bespoke system, built from a working platform rather than an empty screen.

No card, no lock-in

If your next valuation is not signed on site and on the application, do not pay us.

0114-day free trial: Your real rates, your real jobs, your real store.
02Free migration: Price lists, plant register, open jobs, retention balances.
03Demonstrated in your sector: Shown on the system that runs a site services business.
04Cancel by email: One sentence to success@unibuild.co.uk. Done.
05UK data, UK support: UK office, working hours, a real phone number.
06Unlimited users: The store, the site, the office, the directors. Same price.