01 Jul 2026
Time Tracking and Project Managements for Environmental Consultants
Coretime helps environmental consultants capture time across field and office work, manage expenses and external costs, support sustainability reporting, and improve visibility over project performance.
Where environmental consultants lose time, visibility, and margin
When work is split across site visits, reporting, analysis, travel, and office delivery, it becomes harder to capture chargeable time accurately, control costs, and keep projects commercially on track.
Billable time gets missed
Capture hours against clients, properties, jobs, or tasks, whether the work happens on site, on the road, or in the office.
Expenses and mileage are hard to keep on top of
Record costs as they happen and link them directly to the right project or client, without chasing paper trails later.
Project performance is difficult to see clearly
Stay closer to budgets, time spent, and profitability with live visibility across active work.
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Coretime helps environmental consultants bring time tracking, fieldwork visibility, cost control, billing, and reporting into one connected workflow.
How can environmental consultants capture time and expenses on site?
Environmental consultants can record time, upload photos, and log expenses in real time using the Coretime mobile app, ensuring accurate field data even when offsite.
Whether you’re taking soil samples, assessing biodiversity, or inspecting water quality, Coretime keeps you connected to your projects wherever you are.
How can we as an environmental consultant track our impact?
Coretime includes a carbon footprint tracking feature, enabling you to record CO₂ emissions related to travel or other project-related activities. This functionality supports consultancies committed to sustainability, helping you measure and manage your environmental impact while maintaining accurate records for compliance or client reporting.
How do environmental consultants manage billing rates for diverse services?
Coretime supports flexible rate management, enabling firms to assign different rates for distinct service types within the same project. Whether you’re conducting an environmental impact assessment at £100 an hour or serving as an expert witness in court at £200 an hour.
How can environmental consultants analyse project performance and profitability?
Coretime allows project tagging by type and provides insights into profitability and performance across project categories.
How do I streamline Costs with Purchase Order management?
Environmental consultants often incur costs for hiring equipment or procuring services like laboratory testing. Coretime’s purchase order management feature lets you create and track POs, ensuring discipline around external costs. You can match supplier invoices to purchase orders, monitor committed costs, and anticipate billing requirements, improving cost control and financial accuracy.
How do environmental consultants control external costs?
Coretime’s purchase order and cost management features help track supplier invoices and committed costs accurately.
Designed for the realities of environmental consulting work
Environmental consultants need more than a simple timesheet. They need a practical way to manage work across sites, service types, and reporting requirements, while keeping costs and billing under control.
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Support work wherever it happens
Capture time, expenses, and notes across field visits, travel, and office-based tasks.
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Keep project costs connected
Link time, mileage, and expenses directly to the right engagement for clearer commercial oversight.
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Improve billing accuracy
Reduce missed time and disconnected records so invoices reflect the full value of the work delivered.
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A more joined-up workflow
Bring together time tracking, billing, CRM, and reporting in one connected platform.
Fits into the systems you already use
Coretime integrates with key finance and reporting tools, helping reduce duplicate entry and keep project and financial data connected.
Flexible enough for different types of environmental work
Surveys and field assessments
Capture on-site time, travel, notes, and expenses as work happens.
Impact assessments and reporting
Keep project data, deadlines, and commercial performance connected from fieldwork through to final reporting.
Remediation and compliance projects
Track external costs, project phases, and supplier commitments with greater control.
Specialist advisory work
Manage multiple billing rates across different services within the same client engagement.
Helping consultants work more efficiently and bill with confidence
Coretime supports firms that want stronger visibility, better control, and less admin across time and billing.
GWP Engineering Consultants
Coretime are a real business partner, I find them very helpful, and if I have any questions or queries the support team is there to help me instantly. In short, we’re delighted.
Amanda Godwin
GWP Engineering Consultants
R.G. Parkins & Partners
The Coretime system is easy to use, accurate, and has helped to increase our efficiencies, we would absolutely recommend it to other companies in that we find it invaluable.
David Heron
R.G. Parkins & Partners
Caulmert
With staff based at different office locations and sometimes different parts of the world, having Coretime has brought us all together using one easily accessible web based system.
Donna Milne
Caulmert
Deaton Lysaght
Coretime is simply the easiest, yet the most economically advantageous programme that does so much more than just time management. The overall impact of Coretime has improved both productivity and efficiency.
Elizabeth Churchard
Deaton Lysaght
JNP Group
Coretime is one of the most important packages within the business and is based on an annual subscription with full cloud access. This is a truly fantastic system and very affordable for a company of our size, it’s a fraction of the cost of some systems such as Autodesk and Microsoft.
Jamie Seabrook
JNP Group
AJA Architects
For us, the main benefit is that our system is now more user-friendly in terms of project managers being able to access information, such as seeing how a project is performing against budget. They can analyse how time is being spent and what proportion of it is earning fees – it’s easy to translate.
Matt Simpson
AJA Architects
Frequently Asked Questions
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How does Coretime help environmental consultants manage complex projects?
Coretime enables environmental consultants to break projects into manageable phases, track resources accurately, and ...
Coretime enables environmental consultants to break projects into manageable phases, track resources accurately, and stay on top of deadlines. Whether it’s an environmental impact assessment, remediation plan, or expert witness work, Coretime provides the tools to ensure each stage is properly tracked and completed on time and within budget.
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Can Coretime handle on-site requirements for environmental consultants?
Yes, Coretime is designed with mobile functionality, making it ideal for environmental consultants working on-site. Y...
Yes, Coretime is designed with mobile functionality, making it ideal for environmental consultants working on-site. You can record time, upload photos, log site notes, and track expenses in real-time, ensuring that all project data is captured seamlessly, even when you’re away from the office.
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Can environmental consultants manage different billing rates?
Coretime supports flexible rate management, letting consultants assign and bill different rates for services even wit...
Coretime supports flexible rate management, letting consultants assign and bill different rates for services even within the same project. For instance, you can bill at one rate for an environmental assessment and a different rate for expert witness work. This flexibility ensures accurate billing and simplifies revenue tracking for multi-disciplinary practices.
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How can Coretime improve financial control for environmental consultants?
Coretime integrates features such as purchase order management, expense tracking, and real-time budget monitoring. Th...
Coretime integrates features such as purchase order management, expense tracking, and real-time budget monitoring. These tools ensure that external costs—like hiring equipment or laboratory testing—are accurately tracked and attributed to the right project. This improves cost control and provides clear insights into project profitability.
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How does Coretime help environmental consultants manage internal and client communications?
Coretime includes CRM features that allow you to store emails, set reminders, and log communications. Whether you’r...
Coretime includes CRM features that allow you to store emails, set reminders, and log communications. Whether you’re managing client relationships or coordinating tasks within your team, Coretime keeps all correspondence in one place, ensuring nothing gets overlooked and enhancing collaboration.
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What reporting and analysis features does Coretime offer for environmental consultants?
Coretime allows you to tag projects by type, such as environmental assessments or remediation plans. This tagging ena...
Coretime allows you to tag projects by type, such as environmental assessments or remediation plans. This tagging enables you to analyse profitability, performance, and success rates across different project categories. These insights help you identify strengths, optimise resource allocation, and improve decision-making across your consultancy.
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How quickly can environmental consultants see benefits after implementing Coretime?
The time to see benefits depends on your starting point. If you’re transitioning from manual processes, you’ll no...
The time to see benefits depends on your starting point. If you’re transitioning from manual processes, you’ll notice immediate improvements in efficiency, from faster invoicing to better expense tracking. Even if you’re moving from another system, Coretime’s integration and automation features will quickly streamline operations and improve profitability.
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How does Coretime help control project costs?
Coretime’s purchase order tracking and cost monitoring ensure external costs like equipment hire and lab fees are a...
Coretime’s purchase order tracking and cost monitoring ensure external costs like equipment hire and lab fees are accurately recorded and billed.
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Does Coretime support sustainability reporting?
Yes. Coretime includes features for tracking carbon emissions and environmental impact data, helping firms with susta...
Yes. Coretime includes features for tracking carbon emissions and environmental impact data, helping firms with sustainability reporting and compliance.
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What integrations does Coretime offer?
Coretime integrates with accounting systems such as Sage, QB and Xero, ensuring timesheet, expense, and billing data ...
Coretime integrates with accounting systems such as Sage, QB and Xero, ensuring timesheet, expense, and billing data sync across platforms.
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