Time Tracking and Project Management for Environmental Consultants

Coretime is a time tracking and project management platform designed for environmental consulting firms that need to capture field and office work, track expenses, support sustainability reporting, and monitor project performance in real time. It helps consultants record billable hours, manage multiple rates, and generate accurate project and financial insights from one system.

Why Environmental Consultants Need Coretime Project Management Software

For biodiversity surveys, Coretime’s field logging helps capture hours and expenses immediately after site visits.

Streamline Operations

Optimise resource allocation and improve efficiency across all projects.

“It’s cut the time spent on routine administrative tasks and enabled us to be more efficient, which means we can focus more on the actual projects. We can have around 20 live projects on the go at any one time and if a client wants a breakdown of where the time is going, we need to respond almost instantly.” – Matt, WWT Consulting

Eliminate Multiple Systems

Reduce errors and save time by consolidating workflows into one seamless solution.

“When we implemented Coretime, there was a clear transition from previously spending a lot of time administering spreadsheets and then still not being able to see information clearly. Now we have immediate visibility on the performance of individual projects and our business as a whole” – Mike, Caulmert

Manage Complex Projects

Support diverse environmental services, from renewable energy assessments to carbon footprint analyses and impact studies.

“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, R G Parkins & Partners Ltd

All-in-One Project Management

Track projects, manage expenses, handle invoicing, and log timesheets all in a single platform.

 

Stay Compliant

Adapt easily to evolving environmental regulations while keeping projects on track.

Carbon footprint tracking lets consultants record emissions from travel or fieldwork for sustainability reporting purposes.

Boost Profitability

Gain better visibility into project costs, timelines, and performance to make informed decisions.

How Coretime Supports Environmental Consultants

Environmental consultants choose Coretime for its ability to track time, manage fieldwork, and monitor project performance. Below are the core features that make it indispensable.

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.

How does Coretime integrate with other business systems?

Coretime integrates with systems like Sage, QB and Xero, allowing seamless financial data flows and reducing manual entry.

How do environmental consultants manage client contacts and communication?

Coretime’s CRM enables consultants to store emails, set reminders, and log correspondence to keep client interactions organised.

See the Difference Coretime Can Make

With Coretime, managing complex environmental projects has never been easier. Whether you need to improve project tracking, streamline invoicing, or manage expenses, we offer the tools you need. Plus, with its mobile app, you can stay connected to your projects wherever you are, ensuring seamless operations from the field to the office.

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You’re in good company

Join the growing number of businesses transforming their operations with Coretime, starting from just £20/€25 per user per month. Our customers are strengthening client relationships, gaining real-time project visibility, and driving measurable growth.

Explore their success stories below and see how Coretime can deliver powerful results for your organisation at a price that makes sense.

Aircraft Leasing & Management

We have recently purchased Coretime through Onesys and were impressed with their responsiveness to our original enquiry and to our subsequent questions. The process for understanding what the software could do for us was efficient and straightforward, as was the administration involved in setting-up the account and finalising the agreement.

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Nicola Plummer

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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.

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Matt Simpson

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Callisto Consulting

Since purchasing Coretime our time spent on administrative tasks, especially around invoicing has greatly reduced. We can also now respond to Client queries much more efficiently and with a more accurate, trusted response.

Overall the processes that we undertake using Coretime are much quicker and simpler and along with the benefits we’re now receiving in how we can report on our Project data using different parameters, we expect to see a return on investment within a year based on administration time saved.

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Paul Bunyan

Callisto Consulting

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.

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David Heron

R.G. Parkins & Partners

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.

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Amanda Godwin

GWP Engineering Consultants

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.

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Donna Milne

Caulmert

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.

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Jamie Seabrook

JNP Group

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

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Pete Stead – P+HS Architects

A huge positive for us is the reduction of double entry of information, not having to manipulate information and enter it somewhere else has made such a drastic difference to how we run our business, we can’t imagine not having Coretime now!

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Pete Stead – P+HS Architects

Spark Architects

We will be able to easily track non-billable work such as fee proposals and revisions, track outstanding invoices versus paid, and understand budget versus actuals and profitability at both project level and RIBA stages.

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Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust

It’s cut the time spent on routine administrative tasks and enabled us to be more efficient, which means we can focus more on the actual projects. We can have around 20 live projects on the go at any one time and if a client wants a breakdown of where the time is going, we need to respond almost instantly.

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Monica

Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust

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