Project WBS

Turn an estimate into a plan that runs itself.

Project WBS turns an awarded estimate into a structured, schedulable plan — a phased work-breakdown tree with cost-loaded lines, real dates and a live Gantt. It's the backbone every control in BuildOrch is built on.

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linked views — Schedule, Cost & Gantt

100%

cost-loaded straight from the awarded estimate

EVM

feeds Earned Value & Portfolio Planning

What it gives you

One plan, every lens your team needs.

One work-breakdown structure — read as a tree, a schedule, a cost sheet or a Gantt, baselined and feeding every control downstream.

🗂️Phased WBS treeBreak the job into phases and work packages, nested to any depth — the structure your schedule and cost both hang from.

📅Schedule viewStart and finish dates, durations and dependencies on every line, with progress to the project data date.

💰Cost viewEach line carries its cost from the estimate, rolled up cleanly by phase and work package.

📊Live GanttA visual timeline with the critical path highlighted — always current, never a separate file.

🎯Baseline & trackFreeze a baseline and watch actual progress drift against the plan over time.

🔗One spine for controlsThe validated WBS feeds Earned Value, Schedule Comparison, Risk and Portfolio Planning.

BuildOrch AI · WBS Composer

What if the plan built itself?

Building a work-breakdown structure by hand — every phase, every task, then hunting down the cost for each line — burns hours before the job even starts. The AI WBS Composer reads your awarded estimate and drafts the whole structure in one click: phases, work packages, and every cost element already mapped in. Hours of structuring, done in seconds.

Drafts the full WBS straight from the awarded estimate
Maps every cost line to its cost type — automatically
Adds Initiation & Handover phases and chains the sequence
4 phases · 10 tasks · AED 423,400 rolled in — from one click

Review, then commit

You stay in the driver's seat.

The Composer drafts; you decide. Inspect the full schedule and cost it generated — durations, predecessors, start and finish dates — flip between Summary and Detailed views, then Confirm & Add to WBS. Nothing touches your plan until you say so.

Summary and Detailed schedule & cost previews
First-pass durations, predecessors and dates
Refine anything later in the Schedule and Cost views
One click to confirm — or cancel, with no trace left

Schedule

A breakdown structure that holds the whole job.

Organise the project into phases and work packages, set durations and dependencies, and track percent-complete to the data date — all in one structured tree, not a sprawl of spreadsheets.

Phased, nestable WBS tree
Dates, durations & dependencies on every line
Percent-complete tracked to the project data date
Tasks, phases, duration & finish summarised up top

Cost

Every line carries its cost.

Project WBS inherits the cost of the awarded estimate line-for-line, then rolls it up by phase and work package — so the plan you schedule and the budget you defend are the same numbers.

Cost-loaded directly from the awarded estimate
Rolled up by phase and work package
The single budget baseline (BAC) for Earned Value
No re-keying between estimate and plan

Gantt

The whole timeline, at a glance.

A live Gantt renders straight from the WBS — phases, work packages, milestones and the critical path — so anyone can read the shape of the project in seconds.

Critical path highlighted automatically
Milestones & baselines shown inline
Always current — generated from the live plan
Read-only clarity for reviewers and clients

Build your first WBS.

We'll show you how an awarded estimate becomes a scheduled, cost-loaded plan — and the backbone for every control that follows.

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