Buildercost - total estimating solution

Buildercost is a flexible and powerful enough estimating solution to estimate residential jobs of any size, from large projects like apartment complexes and new home subdivisions, to one-of-a-kind, million-dollar or custom homes. The software is Australian written and developed. You'll finish your estimates in less time, with less effort and fewer mistakes than with any estimating method you've ever used before.
Cadestimator handles the complete range of building construction costs. You can use it to estimate hard construction costs, site development costs and all types of "soft costs" such as building permits, portable long service, contingencies, cost escalation, risk allowances, overhead and profit

A big advantage of Cadestimator is that it ships with a large range of Pre-A defined Assemblies, and price list which are designed for Australian residential builders or contractors. This allows you to easily take off multiple items in a single pass, the Assemblies are made up of price list items which can be used in an Assembly or as a single item. specifically for the Australian construction industry

Are you framing a custom home, perhaps* Don't worry about counting up every single nail or measuring the total lineal meterage of timber you'll need. With the Timber Framing Option all you have to do is type in some rudimentary dimensions, and the Framer takes care of the rest.

CAD import facility it is quite unique and it is also simple to import data direct from a CAD package, Cadestimator has been set up so data can be imported direct for Envisioneer, Cadsoft Build and APDesign. or any program that you can export a comma delimited file. One of the error checking features of Cadestimator is it will display any item that doesn't have a corresponding code, this important feature prevents the program from producing an estimate without all the items assigned.

Once a non coded item is detected you can simply look up and assign a code to that item. Today our software is being used by many building companies and many of these companies would be only to pleased to provide a reference for the program.

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System Requirements

Windows® 98, Windows 2000, or Windows XP
Pentium® III-class 500 MHz processor or faster
256 MB RAM (512 MB recommended for Windows XP)
300 MB free hard drive space (750MB recommended if you are installing the plant encyclopedia to your hard drive)
4x CD-ROM drive or faster)
Windows pointing device or Windows mouse

Video

32 MB RAM (64 MB RAM recommended) video card with OpenGL™ support (OpenGL hardware acceleration highly recommended.)
SVGA monitor supporting at least 1024x768 resolution, 256 colors (High and True Color supported)

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