The Masonry Contractor KPI Dashboard in Power BI scores 12 masonry KPIs against target every month, in 8 KPI groups, with MTD and YTD traffic lights on the same row. Pick a month and the whole report follows. Achievement is direction-aware: 4 of the 12 KPIs are higher-is-better and 8 are lower-is-better, so beating a cost, a rework hour or a DSO day scores above 100% instead of looking like a failure. You get a fully editable .pbix plus the Excel data pack that drives it, for one payment of $12.99 (regular $19.99) – no subscription, no per-seat licence, lifetime access to the file. Not what you needed? Tell us within 7 days and we will sort it out under our refund policy.
Which product is this? This is the KPI scorecard line: a month picker, a target-versus-actual scorecard, three-state traffic lights, a KPI Trend page and a KPI Definition page. It is not the analytical “Dashboard” line that slices revenue by region, crew or job type, and it is not the lighter KPI Scorecard family. Names across the three families are deliberately close, so check the page images above before you buy – and if you want more than one, they complement each other rather than repeat.
Key Features of the Masonry Contractor KPI Dashboard in Power BI
- 12 masonry KPIs, scored not just displayed. Bricks Laid per Mason-Day, Labour Cost per 1,000 Bricks, Mortar and Material Waste %, Scaffold Hire Spend, Rework Hours per 1,000 Bricks, Warranty Callback Rate %, Programme Schedule Adherence %, RFI and Variation Turnaround, Tender Estimate Accuracy Index, Job Gross Margin %, Progress Billing Days (DSO) and Site Safety Audit Findings.
- 8 KPI groups – Productivity, Cost Control, Materials, Quality, Schedule, Estimating, Financial and Safety – so a review can run group by group instead of number by number.
- Direction-aware achievement. Higher-is-better KPIs score Actual / Target. Lower-is-better KPIs score Target / Actual. That is why the sample December shows Mortar and Material Waste % at 101.4% when actual waste (6.59%) came in under the 6.68% target.
- Three-state traffic lights on two horizons. On Target at 100% or more, At Risk from 95% to 100%, Missed below 95% – printed separately for MTD and for YTD, so a KPI that is fine this month but behind for the year cannot hide.
- Five slicers, synced across pages – Month, KPI Group, Owner, Priority and Direction. Change one and the KPI Trend and KPI Definition pages follow.
- A 12-month sparkline inside every scorecard row, plus five summary cards (Total KPIs, MTD Target Met, MTD At Risk, MTD Target Missed, Achievement MTD) each with its own 12-month trend and MoM delta.
- An owner and a priority against every KPI. The sample ships 11 named owners – Field Operations, Cost Control, Materials and Purchasing, Plant and Hire, Site Supervision, Customer Care, Project Management, Contracts and Commercial, Estimating, Finance and Safety and Compliance – at Critical, High or Medium.
- Prior-year comparison built in. The data pack carries two full years of actuals, so every YoY arrow and every “PY” line on the trend charts is real, not derived.
- Two hidden tooltip pages (KPI Detail and Trend Detail, 280×360) that surface on hover without adding clutter to the printed page.
- Native Power BI visuals only. Nothing to install from AppSource, nothing that breaks when a custom visual is deprecated. One theme file drives every colour.
What’s Inside the Masonry Contractor KPI Dashboard in Power BI
The download is a single ZIP holding three files: the .pbix report, the Data.xlsx pack it reads from, and a Power BI Dashboard user manual PDF. Keep all three in one folder.
Page 1 – KPI Scorecard. Five slicers across the top, five summary cards under them, then the full scorecard table: KPI Name, KPI Group, Unit, a 12-month sparkline, Actual (MTD), Target (MTD), Achievement % (MTD), Status Light (MTD), YoY Arrow (MTD), Actual (YTD), Achievement % (YTD) and Status Light (YTD). The shipped December 2025 sample reads 12 KPIs, 6 met, 3 at risk, 3 missed, 98.7% achievement for the month.
Page 2 – KPI Trend. A “Select KPI Name” list on the left, six context cards that name the selected KPI, its group, unit, direction, owner and priority, five value cards (Actual MTD, Target MTD, Achievement % MTD, Status MTD, YoY % MTD) and two line charts – CY MTD vs PY MTD vs Target MTD by Month and CY YTD vs PY YTD vs Target YTD by Month. Three lines each: this year, last year, target.
Page 3 – KPI Definition. The same synced KPI selector, and then the part most KPI packs leave out: the formula and the plain-English definition for whichever KPI is selected. Bricks Laid per Mason-Day, for example, reads “Bricks and Blocks Laid / Mason-Days Worked” with the definition “Standard-brick equivalents laid by one bricklayer in a working day across new build, blockwork and stone”. Under it sits a Monthly Detail table for all twelve months plus a total row, an MTD Actual vs Target by Month chart and an Achievement % by Month chart.
Page 4 – Get More Templates, a short catalogue and customisation page, plus the two hidden tooltip pages.
The data pack (Data.xlsx) has four sheets. Read Me explains the model, including the rule that a rate or index YTD is the average of the months so far and never a sum. KPI Definition is one row per KPI with group, unit, formula, definition, UTB/LTB type, owner and priority. Input_ Target holds 144 rows – 12 KPIs by 12 months, MTD and YTD. Input_ Actual holds 288 rows, because it carries the prior year as well. Nothing in the report hard-codes a KPI name: add a row, delete a row or rename a KPI in all three sheets, press Home > Refresh, and the counts, the scorecard, the KPI list and every chart follow. Masonry Contractor KPI Dashboard in Power BI
Masonry Contractor KPI Dashboard in Power BI vs. Tableau or Qlik vs. Paid Construction SaaS – Where This Fits
| This template (Power BI) | Tableau or Qlik build | Procore / Buildertrend analytics | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost | $12.99 once | Roughly $70-$115 per user per month for a creator seat, plus build time | Quoted per project volume, typically four figures a year and up |
| Platform | Power BI Desktop, free from Microsoft | Tableau Desktop or Qlik Sense | Vendor cloud, browser only |
| Setup time | Open, retype 12 KPI rows, refresh – under an hour | Days to weeks for the same scorecard | Weeks, plus onboarding and data migration |
| Real-time team collaboration | No – publish to the Power BI Service if you need shared access | Yes, on a paid server | Yes |
| Mobile access | Via the free Power BI mobile app once published | Yes | Yes |
| Customisable fields | Every KPI, group, unit, formula, owner and priority is a spreadsheet row | Fully custom, but you write it | Limited to the vendor’s field model |
| Share with link | Only after publishing to your own workspace | Yes, on a server | Yes |
| Year-1 cost at 5 users | $12.99, plus optional Power BI Pro seats if you publish | $4,200-$6,900 | Typically far higher again |
| Direction-aware scoring (UTB/LTB) | Built in – 4 higher-is-better, 8 lower-is-better | You build the logic | Fixed to the vendor’s metric set |
| Masonry-specific KPI set out of the box | Yes – bricks, mortar, scaffold, coursing rework, retention | No – start from a blank canvas | Generic construction metrics |
Who This Template Is For – and Who It’s Not For
It fits a masonry or bricklaying subcontractor running between a handful and a few dozen trowels, a construction commercial manager who already reports monthly on brick, block and scaffold cost, an estimator checking tendered cost against delivered cost, or a Power BI user who wants a finished scorecard pattern to fork for another trade.
It is not for you if you want live data straight off a site tablet – this reads a spreadsheet you refresh. It is not for you if you want per-job or per-site drill-down; the report is a company-level monthly scorecard by design, and jobs are not a dimension in the model. It is not a takeoff or estimating package, it is not accounting software, and it does not connect to Sage, Xero, QuickBooks, Procore or Buildertrend. And it is not a safety management system – see the FAQ below. Masonry Contractor KPI Dashboard in Power BI
How to Use the Masonry Contractor KPI Dashboard in Power BI
- Unzip all three files into one folder and keep them together – the report reads
Data.xlsxfrom beside it. - Open the
.pbixin Power BI Desktop (free from Microsoft). - Edit the KPI Definition sheet first. One row per KPI: group, unit, formula, definition, Type (UTB for higher-is-better, LTB for lower-is-better), owner, priority. The KPI Name is the join key across all three sheets.
- Fill Input_ Target – one row per KPI per month, MTD and YTD, for the year you are reporting.
- Fill Input_ Actual the same way, for the reporting year and the year before it. The prior year is what every PY line and YoY arrow reads from.
- Press Home > Refresh in Power BI Desktop. If you moved the folder, use Home > Transform data > Data source settings > Change Source.
- Pick a month on the KPI Scorecard page. Then click a KPI on KPI Trend – the KPI Definition page is on the same synced selection, so it is already showing that KPI’s formula and monthly detail when you switch to it. Masonry Contractor KPI Dashboard in Power BI
Real-World Use Cases
Ravi runs a 30-trowel brickwork subcontractor. His monthly commercial meeting used to open with a spreadsheet of raw totals and an argument about whether a number was good. Now it opens on the KPI Scorecard with Dec 2025 selected: 6 met, 3 at risk, 3 missed. The three misses – rework hours, scaffold hire and progress billing days – each have a named owner on the row, so the meeting is about three conversations rather than twelve.
Helen is a commercial manager on main-contract work. She cares about Progress Billing Days (DSO) and retention release. She selects that KPI on KPI Trend, sees the current-year line sitting above both target and prior year all through the second half, and takes the twelve-month table off the KPI Definition page straight into the board pack.
Danny estimates. He watches one number, the Tender Estimate Accuracy Index, and uses the KPI Definition page’s formula card – “100 – Weighted Absolute Variance of Tendered vs Delivered Cost” – to keep the whole team honest about how the score is calculated before anyone argues about the value.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need a Power BI licence to use this?
No. Power BI Desktop is free from Microsoft and opens, edits and refreshes the file. A Power BI Pro or Premium seat is only needed if you want to publish the report to the Power BI Service and share it with colleagues. Masonry Contractor KPI Dashboard in Power BI
Can I add, remove or rename KPIs?
Yes, and that is the point of the build. Nothing in the report hard-codes a KPI. Add a row to KPI Definition plus its monthly Target and Actual rows, or delete those rows, or rename the KPI in all three sheets, then refresh. The counts, the scorecard, the selector list and every chart follow.
Is there a drill-through page?
No – and it is worth saying plainly, because the family pattern varies. There is no right-click drill-through in this build. The KPI Definition page is reached by clicking it in the page tabs; its KPI selector is synced to the KPI Trend page’s selector, so whichever KPI you picked is already applied when you get there. Masonry Contractor KPI Dashboard in Power BI
Does this track OSHA recordables or manage site safety?
No. Site Safety Audit Findings is a count you type in – the number of open findings raised at your own site safety audits. The dashboard does not calculate an incident rate, does not perform OSHA 300 or 300A recordkeeping, does not check silica, scaffold or CDM compliance, and is not a safety management system. It reports a number you already produce elsewhere.
Are the targets industry benchmarks?
No. Every target in the file is sample data. There is no benchmark set, no industry average and no external data source behind any figure. Replace the targets with your own before anyone treats a traffic light as meaningful.
Is there an Excel or Google Sheets version of the same thing?
A masonry KPI scorecard is already live in both Excel and Google Sheets. They are a lighter, single-file family with their own KPI list – close in name, different in build. An Excel edition of this Power BI KPI Dashboard is in preparation and will be listed separately.
What exactly do I download?
One ZIP containing the .pbix report, Data.xlsx and a Power BI Dashboard user manual PDF. It is a one-time payment with lifetime access to the file you buy. Masonry Contractor KPI Dashboard in Power BI
About the Author
Built by PK – Microsoft Certified Professional with 15+ years of Excel, Google Sheets, and Power BI experience. Founder of NextGenTemplates, reaching 300K+ subscribers across YouTube channels. Every template is hand-built and tested before release. Masonry Contractor KPI Dashboard in Power BI
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Last updated: 30 August 2026.
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