Know what every site cost you — while the job is still running

No — it governs the operations side: materials, costs, plant, procurement, and retention. Your estimating software produces the BQ; you bring that budget into AWRA and track actual spend against it line by line as the job runs. The two coexist, and most contractors keep their estimating tool.

Yes — every issue, delivery, and purchase is booked against a site and, where you want the detail, a specific task or BQ line. That is what lets you see cost-to-date against budget while the work is still running, rather than discovering the gap at the final account.

Plant and equipment are assets with a named custodian and a movement history, transferred between sites on recorded transfers that capture condition before and after. At any moment you can see where a machine is, who holds it and when it last moved — across every site at once. You can also see when it is next due for service: a preventive schedule per machine, on a fixed calendar or from the last service, opens its own work order when it falls due. What the schedule does not read is the hour meter, so plant rated in hours needs its interval set as the weeks those hours take on your sites.

Yes — retention held on each certificate and subcontractor claims and payments are tracked as part of the project financials, so the money owed to you and by you stops living in one person's head and becomes a report anyone authorized can pull.