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Free Schedule of Values Template for Construction (Excel & CSV)
A free schedule of values template for construction in Excel and CSV, with every column explained, worked example rows and no form to fill in.

Michal Mojzesz is the Founder and CEO of Archdesk, the construction management platform used by contractors to run estimating, scheduling, procurement, document control, field records and cost control as one connected system.
His conviction, and the idea Archdesk is built on, is that construction software fails when every department keeps its own version of the truth. An estimate lives in one tool, the budget in another, purchase orders in a third, and site records in spreadsheets, so nobody can say what a project really costs until the invoices arrive. Archdesk answers that with a unified data model: the estimate becomes the budget, commitments and valuations post against the same cost codes, drawings and documents attach to the same work packages, and site records feed the same ledger. One record travels from tender to final account, so delivery, commercial and finance teams read the same live position instead of reconciling three copies of it.
He writes about how that model applies across the industry, from data structures to delivery practice, on the Archdesk blog.
Foundational essay
The Ontology of the Construction Industry
Why construction needs a shared data model, and what it looks like in practice.
100 articles on the Archdesk blog
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A free schedule of values template for construction in Excel and CSV, with every column explained, worked example rows and no form to fill in.
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