Change Order Template: Better than Word, Excel, download as free PDF

A change order is work that is added to or deleted from the original scope of work to previously unforeseen circumstances including subcontractor delays, latent conditions, weather, environmental incident and supplier delay.

And sometimes change orders are implemented by contractors or clients simply because the 'plan has changed' or an alternate approach is now seen as being more beneficial.

Change orders are highly variable and created and managed on a case by case basis. They are critical commercially because they change the dynamic of a contract and who gets paid for what, so it's worth the time and back and forth on the change order process, but they are still difficult to manage via Word, Excel, PDFs and email exchange and so are a difficult instrument to manage and collaborate on smoothly.

If you do continue to run your change orders via Word, Excel or PDF and simply use this change order example for the structure of your own docs in those formats, for reference, the main fields you will need to properly document a change order include:

• Date of change and change type selector
• Description of change, supporting photos, and supporting sketches where applicable
• Other parties involved table
• Digital engineer signoff
• Project manager checklist section
• Relevant contractors and subcontractor claims
• Digital project manager signoff
• Supporting form attachment upload

Instead, if you want to streamline the end-to-end construction change order process, this smart change order construction template makes managing the completion and approval of the inevitable contract changes and perplexing flow of information on site and on projects easier to manage and mostly automated.