Construction Estimating Software

Construction Estimating Software That Increases Efficiency

Construction estimating software by HD allows you to create and manage estimates faster, increasing accuracy and gaining project confidence. Features include: centralized estimate management, third-party cost items, historical work estimates, cost escalation factors over project life cycles, real-time cash flow analysis, detailed earned value reporting, team collaboration, and standardized best practice estimating processes to simplify estimating activities across the company.

Fast Setup

Create new estimates with construction estimating software cost libraries containing over 250,000+ third-party updated data sources from RSMeans (included) or Richardson, and existing historical estimates. Automatically fill new estimates with "standard" data to save time. Create multiple levels of detail, without limitation and produce detailed costs based on crew productivity. Quickly produce "conceptual" estimates and preliminary budgets adding dynamic detail as it becomes available.

• Select pre-built items you need from cost libraries

Industry-Specific Templates

Industry-specific construction estimating software templates get your projects started quickly and include individual activities, complete with crews, production assumptions, and materials requirements. Hard Dollar templates include: energy, process, plant, AEC, construction, heavy civil, mining, utilities (including concrete, bridge work, environmental, underground utilities, paving & earthwork), and more.

Flexible Methods

Utilize and apply multiple estimating techniques depending on the project, including historical analysis of prior like job types, crew productivity history and expertise, and resource availability and assembly basis allowing you to create estimates that match how you manage your projects.

Bid and No-Bid Decisions

Analysis reporting allows at-a-glance summaries in order to make bid/no-bid decisions. Analyze available cash flow, view bid success rates and corresponding costs, view summary information about estimate cost and timelines, and potential revenue with HD construction estimating software.

Utilize Historic Job Costing

Utilize side-by-side project comparisons, prior accounting, and actual and other historic cost data at the line item level. Save time sifting through reports to find relevant historical data by selecting similar projects and compare them in seconds using HD construction estimating software. Utilize prior job history to create accurate estimates, generate preliminary budgets, and compare subcontractor and vendor bids with little time and effort.

Industry and Historic Resource and Cost Data Library Items

HD construction estimating software leverages multiple cost libraries including RSMeans, Richardson, and other libraries, totaling over 300,000 line items, and complete cost standards for chemical plants, manufacturing facilities, solid processing, and water treatment plants.

Take-Off Analysis

Speed up estimating with pre built take-off analysis templates that include, haul cost, production rate, asphalt mix, bridge, water, excavation, asphalt lay, mobilization, pipe, aggregate pit, box culvert and structural concrete calculators.

Unlimited Cost Structures

Create cost breakdown structures with unlimited levels of detail to model jobs and provide a head start for project management with HD construction estimating software. Create cost items with the ability to move costs within a job, or between jobs, with drag and drop ease.

Solicit Quotes

HD construction estimating software helps determine the best combination of quotes to use for estimating. Send quote requests to all or select vendors by email or fax. Include an unlimited number of resources and cost items for each RFQ. Compare quoted values to plug and detail values to make informed decisions. Streamline the process of sending out quotes, while developing a powerful comparison matrix to select the best quotes received while demonstrating due diligence.

Compare Subcontractors

Make "apple to apple" subcontractor comparisons with HD construction estimating software, including mismatched quote packages, split/no-split criteria and subcontractor/vendor conditions when selecting your best combination of subs and vendors for a project.

Cash Flow Analysis

View expected cash flow with HD construction estimating software, dynamically link estimates, work plans, and schedules to display expected cash flow, as well as "what if" analysis. Model mark-ups and margins across work phases to lessen the impact of negative cash flows and maximize the use of the customer’s cash.

Flexible Pricing and Overhead Allocation

Spread markup and overhead numerous ways, handle last minute changes and manipulate pay item prices to pay items quickly. Add direct and indirect overhead, cost escalations, and profit calculations to projects. Gain complete control over how dollars are allocated back to each individual line item with HD construction estimating software.

Data Warehousing

Project information serves as a re-usable resource to reduce time and expenses. Data warehousing also provides a training tool to new team members by shortening training time. Shared data eliminates guesswork and creates repeatable processes within the organization. HD construction estimating software uses the industry standard Microsoft SQL and .Net technologies making access and integration with other systems a snap.

Universal Cost Changes

Making estimating changes is simple and fast, whether you are affecting one item, a section of the estimate, or the entire estimate. A single entry for updated fuel costs can dynamically change each of the corresponding activities using that component.

Bond Cost Calculations

HD construction estimating software allows you to easily calculate Bond costs with user-defined layer limit tables.

Standardize Repeatable Processes

Develop best practice bid processes that enable consistent, repeatable cost estimates without replicating work, and while staying on target with winning processes. Standardize data, based on unique industry processes. Utilize standard job components including crews, materials and production rates to quickly setup jobs, saving valuable time.

Earned Value Reporting

 Provide visibility to earned value data with S curve graphs, enabling the ability to leverage current project information with real-time project control tracking and forecasting ability with HD construction estimating software.

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