Estimating Software

Estimating software that allows you to control and plan every aspect of your construction project with fast estimate setup, industry-specific templates, analysis reporting, historical cost data, take-off analysis, detailed cost breakdown, quote requests, subcontractor comparisons, cash flow analysis, and earned value reporting. The ability to manage time, resources, and cost is unmatched with HD estimating software.

Cost Estimating Software

Our cost estimating software allows you to create and manage construction cost estimates faster, increasing accuracy and gaining project confidence. Avoid errors when estimating construction costs by reusing existing data, save time, resources, and maximize your cash flow and project efficiency.

Manage Cost and Productivity

Estimating Overview

HD estimating software is an easier, powerful and more refined way to manage cost and productivity for enterprise level projects. This next-generation technology delivers a wide range of collaborative tools to increase accuracy with centralized data and unlimited resource-level cost detailing. The compatibility of HD integrates project portfolio systems, which together revolutionize and standardize the estimating process.

Estimating Software

Manage the project with a collapsible cost breakdown structure (CBS).

Quote Management

HD makes it possible to analyze and manage the best combination of quotes in more ways than ever before, helping make better, smarter estimating decisions.

This feature allows you to send quote requests to all or select vendors by email or fax, while including an unlimited number of resources and cost items for each. Through this comparison tool, HD estimating software gives you more efficiency and flexibility to accomplish your goals.

Quote Management

Make smarter decisions with quote side-by-side comaparison.

Historic Centralized Cost Database

Both organization and credible information are crucial to the success of a strong bid. The HD solution ensures this with a centralized view and historical databases; together this provides a simpler layout and easy access to an archive full of historical accuracy.

Historic Cost Database

Select all materials/items from a pre-set list within a cost archive.

Third-Party Cost Libraries

HD estimating software provides a comprehensive list of data libraries designed to help you grow your estimates. Multiple libraries are available in every project sector including: Infrastructure, Environmental, Oil & Gas, Utilities, Industrial and Mining. Information is updated and automatically provided for thousands of cost items and assemblies from Richardson or RSMeans.

Manual Count

If ever necessary to manually enter information into an estimate, HD makes this process seamless through active links to Microsoft® Excel.

Productivity Calculation and Analysis

HD brings project productivity to a new level with dynamic, data-driven visualization tools that define the production of cost items to automatically generate the item's unit and total costs. Bring the big-picture and real-time data together with the flexibility to change crews and enter different production values (e.g. days, man-hours, and unit/day.)

Productivity Calculation and Analysis

Project visability with accurate productivity calculations and analysis.

Conditional Resource Costing

In every project stuff happens and conditions change, but HD estimating software is there to help you manage and account for all factors that may adjust production rates including weather, geography and other job specific conditions.

Flexible Resource Cost Categories

HD provides resource categories placed in a single, easy-to-access location to better organize and manage resources. By creating pre-defined crews and assemblies (groups of resources), you may instantly employ and view the information as a single line item or expand to show individual resources.

Resource Cost Categories

Adjust resources costs for each estimate.

Master Resource Rates

As rates change, adjust them on a job-by-job basis without effecting master rates. Save time and improve rate accuracy. Copy the job specific resources to master files, and from one job to another.

Unlimited Resource-Level Cost Detailing

Spreadsheets with complex linking and formulas can make projects a hassle, but HD estimating software offers the best of all worlds: enhanced features to break down cost into ultimate levels, side-by-side comparison of conceptual and detailed project phases and maximized project accuracy, complete with labor, equipment and material resources.

Profit and Overhead Distribution

Define mark-up and overhead in numerous ways with HD estimating software, and spread profit and overhead proportionately over all estimate items with a single step. The powerful Auto price tool manages overrun and under run items.

Profit and Overhead Distribution

Manage real-time project profit and distribution with a single view.

Centralized Resource Address Book

HD gives you the ideal place to store and view all contacts from Microsoft® Outlook or any other existing database. This is sure to save you time by viewing all subs, suppliers and contacts in a master address book.

Real-Time Excel Integration

Designed to be intuitive and simple, HD estimating software has proven this through the integration with Microsoft® Excel. Done in real-time, you can link any HD field with an external spreadsheet saving time, increasing accuracy and incorporating the results of proprietary legacy spreadsheet data.

Real-Time Excel Integration

Effortlessly integrate Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.

Reporting

HD estimating software drives simplicity with access to over 100 pre-built and customizable reports on all cost and resource data. These ready-to-go templates include resource utilization, cash flow, subcontracted items, detailed productivity and costs. Web-based reporting and dashboards get you going and stay relevant as your data grows.

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