Construction Source Record and Project Reconciliation System with Life Cycle Chain of Custody Capability

Abstract

A database reconciliation system stores construction project data, including project specification data for each of a plurality of projects and contractor data for each of a plurality of contractors. The system enables parties to make changes to the project specification data during the course of a project. The system also stores, and receives new, information about a plurality of deliveries of construction materials to respective construction sites. The system automatically associates each delivery of a delivered construction material to an associated contractor and to an associated project. The system may make inferences, based on past deliveries, to make the associations. If the system successfully verifies delivered construction materials comply with respective material specification requirements in the project specification data of the associated project, the system automatically stores delivery confirmation data for the delivered construction material and the associated contractor, thereby providing backing documentation for payments between project stakeholders.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A database reconciliation system, the system comprising:
 a first electronic database configured to store construction project data, including:
 project specification data for each of a plurality of projects; and 
 contractor data for each of a plurality of contractors; 
   a first interface configured to couple to a project owner electronic database and automatically fetch project specification data and contractor data from the project owner database and store fetched project specification data and fetched contractor data in the first database;   a second electronic database configured to store information about a plurality of deliveries of construction materials to respective construction sites wherein, for each delivery of a delivered construction material, the second database is configured to store:
 an identification of the delivered construction material; 
 an identification of a source of the delivered construction material; and 
 an identification of a delivery location of the delivered construction material; 
   a server configured to automatically:
 store information in the second database as respective construction materials are obtained from respective suppliers and delivered to respective delivery locations; and 
 associate each delivery of a delivered construction material to an associated contractor; 
   a data reconciliation module configured to use the information in the first and second databases to automatically associate each delivery of a delivered construction material to an associated project in the project specification data of the first database;   a comparator configured, for each delivery of a delivered construction material, to use the information in the first and second databases to automatically verify the respective delivered construction material complies with material specification requirements in the project specification data of the associated project; and   a second interface configured, for each delivery of a delivered construction material for which the comparator verification succeeds, to automatically store delivery confirmation data for the delivered construction material and the associated contractor.   
     
     
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