The Vision is simple… create a full, resource centric, productivity based, bottoms-up cost estimate with a click of a button!

While this may look like magic, akin to David Copperfield making the Statue of Liberty Disappear… it is simply a matter of setting the stage. For cost estimating, the keys are:

Bionic Database Enhancements - We have the technology. We have the capability… to make any database better than it was before. Better, stronger, faster!

Advanced Intelligent Assemblies - Smart assemblies designed specifically to not only perform all of the correct complex quantity calculations, but also dynamically being able to match the level of quality of construction, AND being BIM compatible.

Dynamic Rosetta Stone - The final piece of the puzzle… understanding how to make all of this work!

Bionic Database Enhancements

This is a fundamental and essential building block process to provide the foundation for streamlined cost estimating, and cost and schedule management. These “Bionic Database Enhancements” are broken down into two (2) key categories, Required and Optional, and recognizing that virtually every commercially database such as RSMeans, BNi, Saylor, Wessex, etc. were originated as printed in book form only. A great example of this is RSMeans which is widely used in North America including the United States, Canada, and Mexico originally published in 1942 by Robert Snow Means (R.S. Means) and is now a part of the Gordian group of companies. RSMeans databases have been available electronically over the last 30+ years, and have been resold in conjunction with Trimble WinEst, Sage Timberline, and InEight Estimate just to name a few.

Required Key Features:

o   Material Price Links

o   Material Waste Factors

o   Material Class

o   Coding and Reporting (e.g. CSI MasterFormat 03 10 00 vs. 031000)

Optional Features:

o   Metric Conversion (including description)

o   Job Cost Phase Codes

o   Shipping Conversions and Pricing

o   Material Price Update Coding

o   Material Specification (Mat Spec 1-3)

o   Material Weights

o   Task/Activity ID’s (e.g. A1010.30-03 30 00 Column Foundations, Cast-In-Place Concrete)

o   Language Conversion (e.g. Spanish, French, German, Japanese)

Advanced Intelligent Assemblies (aka “Smart Assemblies)

·        Required Key Features:

o   Built-in Logic to dynamically adapt to standard workflows

o   CSI UniFormat II – ASTM 1557 – 09 (2020) vs. Outdated 1998 or 2010

o   Dimensional Variables - Instance Based Driven (BIM Enhanced)

o   Specification Variables - per Contract Specifications (e.g. 3000 psi vs. 4000 psi Concrete)

o   Rounded Quantities (e.g. 24.1 cuyd vs. 24.0912345678 cuyd)

o   Variable Dimension Help including Min, Max, and Default values