Estimating · whole structures & trade take-offs
Construction estimating
Design and estimate 43 whole structures from a few dimensions — now including a flyover, a pedestrian footbridge, a multi-storey car park, a school block, a mid-rise hotel, an office tower, a roundabout and a railway track. The full list: homes (house, granny flat, duplex, townhouses, three-storey apartments with a basement, a coastal house on piles, acreage pad earthworks), commercial and industrial buildings (tilt-up warehouse, steel shed, dual-lane and flame-grill drive-thru burger restaurants, a fuel station with a convenience store, childcare centre, medical centre and pharmacy, self-storage, car wash, tenancy fit-outs), civil works (residential subdivision, roads, culverts, detention basins, rock seawalls, canal pontoons and boat ramps, a retaining-wall comparison), infrastructure (sewage pump station, water reservoir, solar farm with battery, EV charging hub, telecom tower) and small structures. Each one gives a quantity take-off, design checks against Australian Standards, a dimensioned schematic and an Excel workbook with live formulas. The project analysis panel adds location factors and escalation, scenario comparison, a cash-flow S-curve and programme, 30-year lifecycle cost, embodied carbon, an AIQS trade BOQ and a Monte Carlo contingency. Rates are example placeholders: replace them with current quotes.
Section 1 · quick estimate, builder, rates, quotes & payments
Estimate builder
Price anything in three steps: get a budget from a few numbers, turn it into a bill of quantities from the 260-item rates library, ready-made assemblies and your own first-principles rates, then issue a quote with a payment schedule. Estimates save in your browser, compare side by side, export to Excel with live formulas and hand over to the contract administration studio.
Section 2 · whole structures · 43 estimators
Whole-structure design & estimates
Pick a structure. Each estimator checks the key design items against Australian Standards, draws a dimensioned schematic you can download, and prices every line with editable rates. Excel exports keep the rates, amounts and totals as live formulas.
Rates (AUD ex GST) – edit to match your quotes
Cost breakdown
Key quantities
Estimate line items
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Indicative estimate for budgeting only. Slab beam sizes are typical AS 2870 values by site class; the engineer's design, the soil report and builders' quotes govern.
Rates & markups (AUD ex GST) – edit to match your quotes
Cost breakdown
Design & key quantities
Estimate line items
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Design basis & notes
Indicative design checks and budget estimate only. Not a certified design: the engineer's design, supplier data, council requirements and builders' quotes govern.
Section 3 · trade & site tools · 0 tools
Trade & site estimating tools
Grouped by category: earthworks & pavements, concrete & reinforcement, masonry & finishes, roofing & framing, site operations, cost & planning, and scheduling. Every tool exports Excel.