v18.6.0 - Eleven areas, one project frame.

Eleven areas of project work now have a place of their own in OpenConstructionERP through the new Owner's Project Control pack, and two demo projects show them working together. Around that, Türkiye gets a pack built for MEP contractors, the menu learns to put a pack's own screens first, and the money paths keep every amount exactly as it was entered.

What is in version 18.6.0

• Owner's Project Control. Governance and stakeholders, design, procurement, quality, safety, site logistics, economics and commitments are each a module of their own, with their own validation rules. The framework areas appear on a project once the pack is activated. The pack (Bauherren-Projektsteuerung in German) brings the catalogues, rule sets and a German project handbook that tie them together.
• Two German demo projects. A residential scheme in Regensburg and a school in Ludwigsburg, each with its own cast, budget, quality concept, logistics plan, permits and decisions, dated from the day you install them. Economics gives each a cost frame by DIN 276 cost group, a business case with net present value and the financing sources, checked against the bill it was cut from.
• A Türkiye pack for MEP contractors. The menu shows what a mechanical, electrical and plumbing contractor uses. A progress claim becomes a hakedis with the works table and the lettered summary, and KDV, KDV tevkifat, stopaj, damga vergisi and retention are computed from dated statutory rates with their legal reference. It prints as PDF and Excel in Turkish or English, and a certified hakedis is frozen.
• e-Fatura output and Turkish checks. An invoice can be checked against the UBL-TR rules and downloaded as an unsigned file for a licensed integrator. A Turkish bill is checked against the installed Ministry unit price book and against the KDV rates now in force.
• A sidebar that follows the pack. With a pack that focuses the menu, the core screens and the pack's own modules come first, and everything else is one click away under Edit menu. What you show again stays shown after you sign in anew.
• Estimates you can rename. Click the title in the BOQ editor or use the row in the list.

Quantities that follow the model

Quantity rules can now compare as well as match, so a rule can take the walls whose width is over 200 mm or whose Phase Demolished is empty. A saved element group or Smart View can be the quantity source of a BOQ position. When a model is uploaded as a new version of one the project already holds, the bill's change review shows old and new quantities side by side, and nothing is written until you accept.

Companies of a group, and payments to the cent

Administrators can manage the companies of a group under Admin, and a project can name the company that owns it, so two companies never issue the same invoice number. Recording a payment and linking an invoice to a purchase order keep every amount exactly as entered, with no rounding through floating point, and splitting a payment into cash and retention no longer adds a cent.

Safer webhooks and other fixes

Webhooks no longer reach the server's own network unless an administrator lists the host in OE_WEBHOOK_INTERNAL_ALLOWLIST. Demo projects priced in forints or rupees no longer schedule absurd durations, the Bangalore demo now plans about three years instead of seventeen, and the Windows app can be installed into a folder whose path has non-ASCII characters. Hungary and Spain get their public holidays, VAT rates and statutory payment terms.

Install or upgrade

pip install --upgrade openconstructionerp

Desktop installers for Windows, macOS and Linux are on openconstructionerp.com/download. The full list of changes for each version is in the release notes on GitHub. The macOS build is for Apple Silicon only. On an Intel Mac, install with pip or Docker. Questions or trouble upgrading, write to info@datadrivenconstruction.io.

Tell us how it went

If you have installed or tested OpenConstructionERP, we would like to hear what happened, including the parts that did not work. Open an issue on GitHub or write to info@datadrivenconstruction.io.