Construction material quantity certification system with life cycle chain of custody capability

A construction material quantity certification 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 engaged for ones of the projects;
• a second electronic database configured to store data about a plurality of deliveries of construction materials to respective construction sites of respective projects, wherein, for each delivery of a delivered construction material, the second database is configured to store:
• an identification of the delivered construction material;
• a source record that identifies a source of the delivered construction material;
• and
• chain of custody data about the delivered construction material and extending from the source of the delivered construction material;
• a first electronic interface configured to couple to a project owner electronic database and automatically fetch project specification data and contractor data from the project owner database, automatically reformat the fetched project specification data and the fetched contractor data from a closed data format into an open data format, and store reformatted project specification data and reformatted contractor data in the first database;
• a second electronic interface to a plurality of devices, each device configured to automatically provide data about respective quantities of construction materials loaded onto, or unloaded from, respective vehicles;
• an inference engine configured to use the data about respective quantities of construction materials loaded onto or unloaded from, respective vehicles to automatically infer associations between deliveries of the construction materials and contractors identified in the first electronic database;
• a data reconciliation module configured to use information in the first and second databases to automatically infer associations between the deliveries of the construction materials and projects identified in the project specification data of the first electronic database;
• and
• a server coupled to the second electronic interface and configured to automatically:
• obtain the data about the respective quantities of construction materials from the plurality of devices;
• store the data about the respective quantities of construction materials in the second database, in association with respective contractors identified by the inference engine and in association with respective projects identified by the data reconciliation module, as the respective quantities of construction materials are obtained from respective suppliers and/or delivered to respective construction sites;
• update the chain of custody data about the delivered construction material;
• and
• store a construction material quantity certification that is traceable to a plurality of the source records of delivered construction materials, using data in the second database about a subset of the delivered construction materials, and data in the first database about the contractor and the project associated with the subset of the delivered construction materials.