Mechanical contractors
CANOPE tracks your mechanical projects from bid to holdback release. It sees the hours your fitters log, the change orders raised along the way and the subcontractor invoices — before an overrun turns into a loss.
A rerouted pipe run, added fire dampers, rework the engineer demanded: the work gets done on the spot, but the T&M is never priced or billed. By project close, no one knows how many extras were absorbed with no paper trail.
Fitter timesheets, subcontractor invoices for balancing and controls, HVAC equipment purchase orders: it all comes in late and out of order. You see the labor overrun once the phase is done, not while it’s growing.
On a lump-sum mechanical contract, you have to declare progress every month for the progress claim. Without reliable field data, you bill by gut feel, under-bill to be safe, and the 10% holdback ties up your cash for months.
CANOPE
CANOPE prepares each fitter’s and apprentice’s timesheet from their actual activity on site, and ties the hours to the right task — piping, ventilation, controls — applying the collective-agreement rates, premiums and journeyman-to-apprentice ratio by status.
CANOPE continuously compares logged hours and committed spend against each phase’s budget, and warns you of a labor overrun while the phase is still moving, not after the fact.
CANOPE tracks every purchase order you issue to subcontractors for balancing, controls or insulation, reconciles their invoices against the amounts allocated per task, and flags what’s left to bill and what’s over.
CANOPE computes the real lump-sum progress of each task for your progress claim, catches forgotten billable hours and extras, and produces the invoice with GST and QST, frozen at production.
CANOPE keeps each project’s statement of account and tracks your contract holdbacks, and flags when the holdback becomes releasable, once the legal-hypothec period has expired and releases are obtained.
A day with CANOPE
On site, a crew reworks the connection of two rooftop units after an engineer-requested change. CANOPE recognizes the out-of-scope work and prepares it as a change order to approve.
At the office, the project manager opens CANOPE: yesterday’s fitter hours are already split by task, and the ventilation phase budget reads 82% spent for 70% complete.
The controls subcontractor’s invoice arrives by email. CANOPE reconciles it against the issued purchase order, confirms the amount per task, and adds it to billed-to-date.
At the month’s progress claim, CANOPE proposes the lump-sum progress per task, adds the approved change order, and generates the invoice with GST and QST, ready to approve.
Once the legal-hypothec period has passed, CANOPE flags that the 10% holdback becomes releasable and prepares the final invoice.
Your fitters build. CANOPE holds every hour, every change order and every dollar.