Roads and bridges
Lot-based delivery, claimed by chainage.
Road and bridge work lives or dies on conformance and progress claims. Outpost carries the priced schedule of rates into the field as lots, then turns conformed lots straight into a claim, by chainage, with the test records attached.
Where it leaks
The cost and the compliance leak in the gap.
Outpost claims by chainage from conformed lots, so quantities and rates cannot drift from what you tendered.
Conformance scattered
Test results, hold points and lot records sit across folders, inboxes and a spreadsheet that nobody trusts at claim time.
Claims rebuilt by hand
Each progress claim is reassembled from site diaries and survey, weeks after the work, with quantities that drift from the schedule.
Variations lost
Directed work and standing time get noticed late, if at all, and the time bar passes before anyone raises it.
On roads & bridges
What runs on the record.
Lots against the alignment
Open lots by chainage and layer, with the inspection test plan and hold points built in.
Claims from conformed lots
A progress claim assembles itself from certified quantities at your schedule rates.
Materials and dayworks
Delivered against placed, plus directed dayworks captured the day they happen.
Survey and as-built
Conformance and as-built records carry through to a closeout pack with nothing re-keyed.
Built for Australian road authority specifications and the conformance regime they require.
Sources
Every number here is auditable.
- [1]Infrastructure Australia, 2025 Infrastructure Market Capacity Report (five-year major public pipeline $242 billion; transport $129 billion; utilities and energy doubling to $36 billion; 141,000 worker shortfall). https://www.infrastructureaustralia.gov.au/2025-infrastructure-market-capacity-report
- [2]Australian Government, Infrastructure Investment Program (ten-year pipeline of more than $120 billion; roughly even road and rail split). https://investment.infrastructure.gov.au/
- [3]Grattan Institute, The Rise of Megaprojects: Counting the costs (transport projects ran 21% over promised cost on average; prematurely announced projects averaged 35%). https://grattan.edu.au/report/the-rise-of-megaprojects-counting-the-costs/
