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Concrete pour card
A concrete pour card, filled in on a phone. Before a pour, each trade with work in it signs off that its work is complete and checked: formwork and shoring, reinforcement, embeds and anchor bolts, mechanical and plumbing sleeves, electrical conduit and boxes, post-tensioning, survey and layout, the testing agency and the engineer or special inspector. Each sign-off records the company, who checked, the date and time, accepted or not, comments, photos and a signature. The card also holds the pour details (element, location, volume ordered, mix reference, placing method and forecast) and the last checks on the day, and shows the pour as ready to release only when every required sign-off is accepted. Record the pour itself on the concrete pour checklist.
For concrete contractors, superintendents, site managers and field engineers running pours, and for the trade foremen, inspectors and engineers who sign them off.
Written for any country. The notes quote US OSHA rules and a US federal guide specification where they help, and the UK CDM 2015 rule on temporary supports; your contract and specification decide the rest.
- One sign-off per trade: company, who checked, date and time, accepted or not, comments, photos and signature
- Formwork, reinforcement, embeds, sleeves, conduit, post-tensioning, layout, testing and engineer in the trade list
- Pour details: element, location, drawings, volume ordered, mix reference, placing method and forecast
- Last checks on the day, with a Walk Cam of the deck and the shores below
- Release status calculated from the required sign-offs, with the release time and signatures
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What is a concrete pour card?
A pour card works when every trade with work in the pour is on it, each one checks its own work against the current drawings, and nobody releases the pour while a required sign-off is still open. Recording what each trade checked, with photos, shows later what was in the slab before it was covered.
Last updated . Facts checked by the SiteSurvey team on 27 October 2026 against OSHA 29 CFR 1926.703, Requirements for cast-in-place concrete (eCFR), OSHA 29 CFR 1926.701, Concrete and masonry construction, general requirements (eCFR), Unified Facilities Guide Specifications, UFGS 03 30 00 Cast-in-Place Concrete (USACE, NAVFAC, AFCEC) and The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015, regulation 19, stability of structures.
How to run a pour card
Start the card a day or two before the pour so each trade has time to finish and sign.
Raise the card
Give it a number and enter the element, location, drawings, planned date and time, volume ordered, mix reference, supplier and placing method.
List the trades
Add one sign-off for each trade with work in the pour, and mark which are required before the pour. Confirm that nothing is missing.
Get each trade to sign
Each foreman or inspector checks their work, records what they checked, takes photos and signs. If something is missing, they mark it not accepted and say what must be done.
Do the last checks
On the day, check the shores and forms again, the deck is clean, access and edge protection, the pump position, testing and curing. Film the deck with Walk Cam.
Release the pour
When the card shows every required sign-off accepted, record the release, the time and sign. Then record the pour on the concrete pour checklist.
What makes a pour card work
Trade sign-offs, one entry each with accepted or not and comments
PC-L3-02, Level 3 deck, grids A to F, 1 to 6, 412 yd³ by boom pump. Formwork 09:10, rebar 10:00, PT 10:40, electrical 11:30 accepted. Plumbing not accepted at 11:15: 4-inch floor drain sleeve missing at D/4. Sleeve set 14:30, accepted 15:20. Special inspector 15:45. Shores walked again 05:30, released 05:45.
Fictional example. Record the actual evidence and approved arrangements for your job.
A common recording mistake
Leaving a trade off the card because it only has a few sleeves or boxes in the pour, so a missing penetration is found after the concrete is placed and has to be cored.
What happens next
Once released, record the pour on the concrete pour checklist and keep the card with the special inspection and test reports for that pour.
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Every question in the concrete pour card template
A concrete pour card (pre-pour sign-off): the element, location, volume ordered, mix reference, placing method and forecast, then one sign-off per trade (formwork and shoring, reinforcement, embeds, sleeves, conduit, post-tensioning, layout, testing, engineer) with who checked, when, accepted or not, comments, photos and signature, the last checks on the day, and a release to pour calculated from the required sign-offs. 4 sections and 76 questions. Follow-up questions and guidance appear only when an answer calls for them, so the person on site never sees the ones that do not apply.
Make it your own: every question is editable
This is a starting point, not a fixed form. Once it is in your SiteSurvey account you can reword any question, add or remove questions, sections and answer options, and add your own logo, so it fits the way your team works and the jobs you do.
Details you only enter once
Add this form to a project in SiteSurvey and it fills in what the project already knows, so nobody on site retypes it and every form on the job uses the same names. Anything filled in can still be changed.
- Project: the project name
- Site address: the site address, from the space or the project
- Owner or client: the project's customer
Pour details
- ProjectShort answer
Filled in from the project in SiteSurvey.
Fills in from the project name - Site addressShort answerFills in from the site address, from the space or the project
- Owner or clientShort answerFills in from the project's customer
- Location (GPS)Short answer
- Card date*Date
- Card raised by*Short answer
- Pour card number*Short answer
For example PC-L2-03.
- Concrete contractorShort answer
- Element*Choose one
- Slab on grade
- Elevated slab or deck
- Beam or band
- Wall
- Column
- Footing, pile cap or ground beam
- Stair or ramp
- Topping
- Other
- Pour location*Short answer
Level, gridlines and pour number, for example Level 2, grids C to F, 3 to 7.
- Drawings and revisionsShort answer
Structural, placing and formwork drawings, for example S-202 rev D.
- Planned pour date*Date
- Planned startTime
- Volume ordered*Number
As ordered from the supplier.
- UnitChoose one
- cubic yards (yd³)
- cubic metres (m³)
- Mix reference*Short answer
The approved mix design or supplier mix code from the specification.
- Ready-mix supplierShort answer
- Placing methodChoose one
- Boom pump
- Line pump
- Crane and bucket (skip)
- Direct from the truck chute
- Conveyor or other
- Pump or crane companyShort answer
- Weather forecast for the pourNotes
Rain, heat, cold or wind that changes the plan.
- CheckA pour card records that each trade has checked its work in the pour. It is not the engineer's approval, a building inspection or a test record. Values such as cover, slump and curing come from the drawings and the specification.
- Weather on siteAnswer
Trade sign-offs
- GuidanceAdd one entry for each trade with work in this pour. Mark a trade as required unless it is listed only for information. The pour is released only when every required sign-off is accepted.
- Sign-offsRepeat for each sign-off. Each one asks:
- Trade or discipline*Choose one
- Formwork and shoring
- Reinforcement
- Embeds and anchor bolts
- Mechanical and plumbing sleeves and penetrations
- Electrical conduit and boxes
- Post-tensioning
- Survey and layout
- Testing agency
- Engineer or special inspector
- Fire protection or sprinkler sleeves
- Other
- Which tradeShort answerShown when “Trade or discipline” is “Other”
- Required before this pour?Yes or No
No only for a trade listed for information.
- CompanyShort answer
- Checked by*Short answer
- What was checkedNotes
For example bottom and top mats, chairs, laps at grid 4, bar caps.
- GuidanceUS: OSHA 29 CFR 1926.703 requires the formwork and shoring drawings, with all revisions, to be on the jobsite, and erected shoring to be inspected immediately before, during and immediately after the pour. UK: temporary supports must be designed, installed and maintained for the foreseeable loads (CDM 2015, regulation 19(2)). Record the temporary works or falsework permit reference here.Shown only when the answers above make it relevant
- GuidanceCheck against the placing drawings, not a list on this card. US: OSHA 29 CFR 1926.701(b) requires protruding bars that someone could fall onto to be guarded against impalement.Shown when “Trade or discipline” is “Reinforcement”
- GuidanceBars moved to clear sleeves or conduit may need the engineer to agree: on federal jobs that use UFGS 03 30 00, a bar moved more than one bar diameter or the placing tolerance needs approval first.Shown only when the answers above make it relevant
- GuidanceThis card covers the tendons before the pour. When stressing later, US OSHA 29 CFR 1926.701(c) keeps everyone not needed behind the jack out, with signs and barriers around the area.Shown when “Trade or discipline” is “Post-tensioning”
- Date checkedDate
- Time checkedTime
- Sign-off*Choose one
- Accepted
- Not accepted: work to do
- Not checked yet
- Comments, and what must be done before it can be acceptedNotes
- Photos of the work as checkedPhotos
- SignatureSignatureShown when “Sign-off” is “Accepted”
- Every trade with work in this pour is listed?*Yes or No
- WarningAdd the missing trades before releasing the pour.Shown when “Every trade with work in this pour is listed?” is No
- Required sign-offsWorked out by the form
- AcceptedWorked out by the form
- Not accepted or not checkedWorked out by the form
- Not accepted: work to doWorked out by the form
Last checks on the day
- Shoring and formwork inspected immediately before placingChoose one
The person named on the formwork sign-off, or the temporary works coordinator.
- Acceptable
- Action needed
- Not checked
- Not applicable
- What needs doing, or why not checkedNotesShown only when the answers above make it relevant
- Deck or forms clean, free of debris, standing water and iceChoose one
- Acceptable
- Action needed
- Not checked
- Not applicable
- What needs doing, or why not checkedNotesShown only when the answers above make it relevant
- Bulkheads, construction joints and waterstops in place where shownChoose one
- Acceptable
- Action needed
- Not checked
- Not applicable
- What needs doing, or why not checkedNotesShown only when the answers above make it relevant
- Safe access to the pour, edge protection and bar caps in placeChoose one
- Acceptable
- Action needed
- Not checked
- Not applicable
- What needs doing, or why not checkedNotesShown only when the answers above make it relevant
- Pump or crane position, outriggers and ground checked; exclusion zone setChoose one
- Acceptable
- Action needed
- Not checked
- Not applicable
- What needs doing, or why not checkedNotesShown only when the answers above make it relevant
- Testing technician on site or confirmed, sample location agreedChoose one
- Acceptable
- Action needed
- Not checked
- Not applicable
- What needs doing, or why not checkedNotesShown only when the answers above make it relevant
- Curing materials and weather protection on siteChoose one
- Acceptable
- Action needed
- Not checked
- Not applicable
- What needs doing, or why not checkedNotesShown only when the answers above make it relevant
- Concrete wash-out area set upChoose one
- Acceptable
- Action needed
- Not checked
- Not applicable
- What needs doing, or why not checkedNotesShown only when the answers above make it relevant
- Last checks needing actionWorked out by the form
- Not checkedWorked out by the form
- Walk Cam: deck before the pourWalk Cam video with voice-to-text
Optional. Film a guided walk-round on the SiteSurvey app.
- Photos on the dayPhotos
Release to pour
- Sign-offs and checks outstandingWorked out by the form
- Release statusWorked out by the form
- ActionsRepeat for each action. Each one asks:
- Action*Notes
- PriorityChoose one
- Before release
- Before the next pour
- For information
- Who will do it*Short answer
- Due byDate
- Status*Choose one
- Open
- In progress
- Done, checked
- Photo when donePhotosShown when “Status” is “Done, checked”
- Actions still openWorked out by the form
- Release decision*Choose one
- Released to pour
- Hold: release once the outstanding sign-offs are accepted
- Pour postponed
- WarningThe card still shows sign-offs or checks outstanding. Do not release the pour until they are accepted.Shown only when the answers above make it relevant
- Released onDateShown when “Release decision” is “Released to pour”
- Released atTimeShown when “Release decision” is “Released to pour”
- New pour dateDateShown when “Release decision” is “Pour postponed”
- Summary for the clientNotes
- Superintendent or site manager nameShort answer
- Superintendent or site manager signature*Signature
- Engineer or inspector (if attending) nameShort answer
- Engineer or inspector (if attending) signatureSignature
- GuidanceRecord the pour itself (delivery tickets, slump, samples, placing and curing) on the Concrete Pour Inspection form.
- CheckSignatures record that each trade checked its work on the date shown. They do not certify the structure or replace the engineer's or building inspector's approval.
See it filled in
A completed concrete pour card report, made by SiteSurvey from a fictional site visit: every answer, the photos, the guidance that applied and the sign-off, ready to send as a PDF.
Concrete pour card FAQs
Is a pour card the same as a concrete pour checklist?
No. The pour card is the sign-off before the pour: each trade confirms its work is complete and the pour is released. A concrete pour checklist records the pour itself: delivery tickets, slump, samples, placing and curing. Use this card first, then the concrete pour checklist on the day. For the excavation and footings before a foundation pour, use the foundation inspection checklist.
Who signs a pour card?
Each trade with work in the pour, usually the foreman or the person who checked it: formwork and shoring, reinforcement, embeds and anchor bolts, mechanical and plumbing sleeves, electrical, post-tensioning and survey. The testing agency confirms it is booked, and the engineer or special inspector signs where the job needs them. The superintendent or site manager releases the pour. Your contract or quality plan may name others.
Do the forms and shores need checking before the pour?
Yes. In the US, OSHA 29 CFR 1926.703 requires the formwork and shoring drawings, with all revisions, to be on the jobsite, and erected shoring to be inspected immediately before, during and immediately after concrete placement. In the UK, CDM 2015 regulation 19(2) requires temporary supports and structures to be designed, installed and maintained to withstand the foreseeable loads, and used only for what they were designed for. The card has a formwork sign-off and a last check of the shores on the day.
Sources: OSHA 29 CFR 1926.703, Requirements for cast-in-place concrete (eCFR) and The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015, regulation 19, stability of structures.
What if a sleeve or box is missing when the trade checks?
The trade marks its sign-off not accepted and says what must be done, and the card shows the pour as not released. Once the sleeve is set, the trade checks again and accepts. If bars must move to make room, ask the engineer: on federal jobs that use UFGS 03 30 00, a bar moved more than one bar diameter or the placing tolerance needs approval first. The same guide specification says not to deliver concrete until forms, reinforcement and embedded items are in place and ready.
Source: Unified Facilities Guide Specifications, UFGS 03 30 00 Cast-in-Place Concrete (USACE, NAVFAC, AFCEC).
Does the card cover post-tensioning?
It covers the post-tensioning sign-off before the pour: tendon profiles, chairs, anchors and pocket formers, checked against the shop drawings. Stressing comes later. When it does, US OSHA 29 CFR 1926.701(c) keeps everyone not needed for the stressing out from behind the jack, with signs and barriers around the area. The card also reminds you that protruding bars that someone could fall onto must be guarded (1926.701(b)).
Source: OSHA 29 CFR 1926.701, Concrete and masonry construction, general requirements (eCFR).
Does a signed pour card mean the work complies?
No. It records that each trade checked its own work and signed on the date shown. It does not replace the engineer's or building inspector's approval, special inspection reports or test results, and it states no values for cover, slump or curing: those come from your drawings and specification.
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A concrete pour record covering pre-pour evidence, reinforcement and formwork checks, delivery references, placement observations, curing and hold points.
A pre-pour foundation inspection: set-out, excavation safety and bearing ground, then each footing measured against its design with reinforcement, cover, formwork and penetrations checked and photographed, with US (IRC and OSHA) and UK (CDM and building control) notes, actions and sign-off.
A request for inspection (work inspection request) before work is covered: request number, date and time requested and wanted, notice given, the work, location with GPS, drawing and ITP reference, hold or witness point, the contractor's pre-check with photos, then each inspection visit with the result (approved, approved with comments, rejected), comments, photos and signatures, and the days from request to inspection and approval.
A temporary works inspection linking the item, approved drawings, construction observations, changes, restrictions and separate release references.
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