Laydown Area Planner — claim the ground before congestion does.
Every site has a fixed amount of ground and an unfixed amount of material trying to land on it. This register gives each laydown area a row — zone, use, dimensions, capacity, occupancy dates — and computes footprints, utilisation, and clash flags before the trucks arrive.
What it does.
A laydown area is a designated space for staging materials, equipment, or containers. The free workbook is a structured laydown register: list each area with its zone, use, and length and width in metres, and the footprint in m², utilisation percentage, and status calculate themselves. Each area carries its capacity in the unit you actually manage it in — m², pallets, containers, or tonnes — and a five-band status from Healthy below 50% to Over capacity at 100% and beyond.
Occupancy dates feed an automatic clash flag: two areas claiming the same zone over overlapping dates are caught as you type, not on the morning the second delivery arrives. The dashboard reads the register and gives you zone congestion, site totals, and a plain-English verdict.
Inside the free edition.
- Laydown register for up to twelve areas — name, zone, use, dimensions, capacity, occupancy dates.
- Live formulas — footprint in m², utilisation percentage, and a five-band status from Healthy to Over capacity.
- Automatic clash flags — overlapping occupancy dates in the same zone are flagged as you type.
- A dashboard that computes itself — zone congestion with data bars, site totals, and an honest verdict.
- Works in Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, and LibreOffice Calc.
Free edition vs full planner.
| Free edition | With stomwerk projekt | |
|---|---|---|
| Areas | 12-row register, rectangular footprints | Unlimited polygons drawn on a satellite map, geodesic footprints |
| Utilisation | One current-state snapshot per area | Full time series with week-over-week and month-over-month trends |
| Congestion view | Zone table and clash flags | Colour-coded utilisation map, capacity gauge, ranked congestion charts |
| Delivery | Self-serve workbook | Locally-run interactive planner, configured for your site |
| Price | Free | Engagement |
Questions, answered.
What is a laydown area?
A laydown area is a designated space on a construction or industrial site for staging materials, equipment, or containers before they are needed at the workface. Sites that do not plan them pay for it in congestion: deliveries with nowhere to land, double-handled materials, and equipment parked where the next contractor needs to work.
Is the Laydown Area Planner really free?
It will be. The free edition launches without a sign-up wall once final release checks are complete. Until then, preview it here and register interest via the contact form — we will send it the moment it ships. The full instrument remains part of a stomwerk engagement.
Does the workbook work in Google Sheets and LibreOffice?
Yes. It uses standard formulas, dropdown validation, and conditional formatting that behave identically in Excel, Google Sheets, and LibreOffice Calc.
How does the free workbook differ from the full planner?
The workbook is a register: twelve areas, rectangular footprints, one utilisation snapshot per area, clash flags from occupancy dates. The full planner is interactive: unlimited areas drawn as polygons on a satellite map, geodesic footprints, a complete utilisation history, and week-over-week and month-over-month trend planning — all running locally, so your site data never leaves your machine.