HOW TO INCLUDE EVERYTHING IN YOUR BUILDING ESTIMATES

Few people have the headspace to remember every single item that needs to go into an estimate. The materials, labour, tools, equipment, plant hire… It took an entire team of construction engineers and programmers years to itemise the resources, research the costs, and do all of the calculations to create our market-leading construction estimating software. Then they spent months testing the calculators time and time again.

The development team built calculators for every stage of a project, including the labour, materials, tools, equipment and plant. There are calculations for skips, van expenses, wear and tear on tools, wastage of materials, inflation, profit and more. After a monumental effort, and an eye-watering research and development bill, we arrived at EstimatorXpress.

Now the team’s efforts are focused on bringing additional, valuable features to our award-winning software. As you know, nothing stands still in the building industry. Our programme of software development is ongoing, responding to the latest building regulations, construction methods, and material prices. Our team reviews builders merchants’ prices, month on month, to keep the material prices in our software up-to-date.

While a spreadsheet is a step up from estimating on the back of an envelope, they’re still error-prone. You know what we’re talking about… broken formulae, mixed up cell references, hidden rows…

EstimatorXpress has been double and triple checked, to ensure everything is included and is being calculated correctly. The software even prompts you to estimate all of your chargeable hours. Your time costs money too!

Here at HBXL Building Software, we know that the money isn’t made when the client accepts the quote. That’s just the beginning. To make a decent profit, you need to stick to the estimate, not over-spend or fall behind schedule. That’s why EstimatorXpress automatically produces a build program, material ordering list, timber cutting list, labour schedule, cash flow reports, profit forecasts and more.

NEXT STEP

Despite the economic challenges facing all small building firms, EstimatorXpress can help 2023 be a successful year for your business. Why not start by booking in for an online demonstration with one of the HBXL Building Software team? They’d be delighted to give you a tour of the software and discuss how it will work for your business. Alternatively, if you’d like to get stuck straight in, you can trial the software for 14-days. We’re here, ready to chat on 0117 916 7898.