Esti-mate's development team, with over 20 years experience, has previously been responsible for producing other industry-leading estimating systems, and now brings their expertise to this highly functional, easy to use, software.

Esti-mate is realistically priced. The powerful, yet affordable, features available within our product range are usually only found in systems costing thousands of dollars more.

The Esti-mate product range will run on Windows 98, ME, 2000 and XP. The software will operate on all standalone Windows 98 onwards Computers and over most networks. The programs are automatically set to operate in multi-user mode, allowing more than one user in the same estimate at the same time.

The Esti-mate software range includes:

Estimating Module
Produces Quotations and traditional Bills of Quantities with prices created from Labour, Plant, Materials and Subcontractor resources. Dimensions may be taken off using traditional methods.

Materials Enquiry
Stand-alone or integrated with the Estimating, this Module allows Materials schedules to be built, sent out as enquiries to Suppliers and prices compared and selected for the Estimate.

Subcontractor Module
Stand-alone or integrated with the Estimating, this Module allows the Bill Items to be allocated to Trade packages. Packages may be sent out as enquiries to any number of subcontractors, using e-mail or printed documents. When quotations are received, the module allows you to compare rates in a variety of ways, and select a subcontractor's rates for automatic update of the Estimate.

Surfacing Items Calculator
This specialist module allows the rapid entry of Surfacing Items to be added to an Estimate. The calculator allows materials and gangs to be selected, with the quantities of the materials (in tonnes) calculated from material density, % compaction, thickness, % waste and superage. These calculations are then applied to the total Item quantity (measured in square metres) and a rate build-up produced as a combination of the materials, labour, plant, gang, transport costs etc. The calculator may be used to add several surfacing elements to the same Item, such as sub-base, main and wearing courses etc. The calculator may be used to change any element of the calculations after they have been initially created.

Bill Import
Stand-alone or integrated with the Estimating, this Module allows Estimates to be quickly and easily created from Microsoft Excel, CSV or ASCII Text files created by programs other than Esti-mate.

Valuations
Uses the jobs produced by the Estimating program and allows a range of traditional Quantity Surveying functions to be performed and professional quality documentation to be produced.

Main Contractors Suite
Combined suite with additional facilities aimed at the larger contractor

House Builder Suite
The House builder's suite is a totally integrated solution. It allows Developers to estimate and analyse the costs throughout the life of a housing project. This includes estimating budgets covering:

• Build costs for dwellings, garages, flats etc including the use of templates for standard house types

• Infrastructure costs for Roads, Sewers, External Works and Plotworks

• Comprehensive Analysis by Phase, Plot, Element & Tick sheet, Resource schedules including Subcontractors

• Records and Analyses of Work in Progress linked to Phases, Plots, House Types, Siteworks and Plotworks.

• Measurement can be by quantity or tick sheet.

• Maintains original budgets, allows creation of latest budget and comparison of work to date against both.
  Tracking of variations, Dayworks and Materials on site

• Cost Value Reconciliation including links to Accounting systems utilising Account Cost Heads

Construction management and price forecasting is the key to successful development. Esti-mate has engineered the best value fully functional software for the construction industry to date.

Pricing Libraries
Industry standard descriptions for rapid creation of elements within the Estimate. These Libraries include Labour, Plant, Materials and Subcontractor resources. Libraries include Small & Major Works and Civil Engineering

Library Maintenance Module
Additional functions to assist in creating and maintaining Pricing Libraries

Support
The support package includes telephone help desk, e-mail support and free upgrades to the main packages. etc.

• On-screen display of the Bill of Quantities, including fonts and page-breaks that will be as printed.

• Elements of the Bill created manually, copied from another Job or imported from a Standard Pricing Library. Spell checking is provided for the descriptions.

• Jobs may be imported from other Estimating or Bill Production Systems via industry standard CITE Files.

• Items may be added, copied, changed or deleted anywhere within the Estimate.

• Items may be rapidly located and displayed as a single list. Such grouping includes Items the have not yet been priced, Items containing selected resources, Items over a selected value etc.
• Dimensions take-off may be used to record measurements, including the use of a digitiser to take measurements directly from drawings.

• Rates may be directly entered or built up from Labour, Plant, Materials and Subcontract resources.

• Rate build-ups may have waste factors applied which reflect a true quantity.

• Waste factors can be set at individual Item level or globally across all Items.

• Activities may be created and used. These elements contain quantified build-ups of resources and other activities (to any depth). Analyses of the Resources split these activities into their component Labour, Plant, Materials and Subcontract elements.

• Resource prices may be adjusted globally, with the Bill Rates being automatically updated.

• Full analysis of Labour, Plant, Materials and Subcontract resources, giving total quantities, rate and value for each resource by Estimate and for individual Sections.

• Resources may be allocated to Cost Codes for export to accounting programs etc.

• Resource analysis may be printed without rates, to form the basis of an enquiry to suppliers or sub-contractors.

• Profits may be adjusted across Labour, Plant Materials, Subcontract elements and across individual/groups of Items.

• Analyse the job by user-defined groups. This facility allows the job to be exported to project management packages etc.

• All analyses including Rate Analysis and Dimensions may be printed.

• Professional quality Bill of Quantities printed, with or without rates, profit, GST or converted to another currency.

• The Job may be printed with selected Resources rates, allowing Labour-only, Labour+Plant etc Bills.

• Preliminaries may be entered and calculated outside of the Job pricing, and the Preliminaries value transferred to the Bill as a set of Bill Items or as a percentage adjustment to the measured work.

• All reports may be sent to a CSV format file for use in spreadsheet programs such as Microsoft Excel.

• Estimates may be exported to industry standard C.I.T.E format files for transfer to other Estimating packages.

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Bill of Quantities	Find Facilitty	Re-pricing Materials	Estimate & Profit
Resources Summary	Sub-Contractor Summary	Printed Bill of Quantities