Vertigraph launched SiteWorx/OS version 5.0 to streamline the site excavation process

Vertigraph, a noted provider of takeoff and estimating software for the construction industry, just launched of its updated and improved SiteWorx/ OS Version 5.0 on-screen cut-and-fill software.

SiteWorx/OS version 5.0 contains innovative technology with craftsmanship to make the site excavation process more accurate.

This newly launched software has promoted takeoff and estimating to an advance level.

Enhancements with SiteWorx/OS version 5.0  

• Cross sections
• Length measurement tool
• Site balancing tool
• User interface is developed for quick input and uncomplicated editing of items
• Cut and fill volumes are now disclosed under any area placed on the site.

Planswift make upgradation to its product by launching newest version i.e.PlanSwift 9.3

Planswift just introduces the latest version of its flagship product i.e. PlanSwift Professional version 9.3.

This newly launched software has included several enhancements toward the requirement of construction industry professionals.

PlanSwift 9.3 is incorporated with your paid annual maintenance program. Annual maintenance empower the users to avail all program updates, upgrades, technical support and get entrance to the plugin store. If any user does not undertake the maintenance plan, then he can upgrade online here - www.planswift.com/takeoff-estimating-software/planswift-upgrade.html

PlanSwift also arrange a free one-hour demonstration with an experienced estimator for their new version.

Some exclusive features of PlanSwift 9.3  : 

• Locks projects with job locking option facilitating users to avoid overwriting the work performed by another users.
• Double click to discontinue recording and begin a new section
• Show Page Scale at top left of page
• Demonstrate Measurement Type at the bottom center of page
• Present unit of measure on digitized items in page list
• Opt for pages from Takeoff Summary devoid of going over to the page list
• With Duplicate Item option the user will be able to generate a replica of the chosen item in the Takeoff Summary and Template sidebars for quick replication of items.

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Enhance your takeoff, estimating, and proposal management procedures with ProContractorMX™ by Maxwell

Maxwell introduces ProContractorMX™ containing robust and comprehensible features to enhance your takeoff, estimating, and proposal management procedures. ProContractorMX Estimating Construction Project Management Software utilizes the On Premise / Client Server Operating Environment.

ProContractorMX™ provides a complete construction software solution to be applied with the complications of the entire project lifecycle. The users will get solutions under one roof with uninterrupted control and flawless workflow across applications that range from takeoff and estimating through job cost accounting and project management, and finally for critical reporting and analysis.

One Stop Green launches Online Energy Calculator to Allow Users to quantity their Solar, Water, Lighting and Wind Resources

One Stop Green just launches a complete Energy Savings Calculator that can compute prospective solar, water, lighting and wind resources along with yearly energy and monetary savings for any home or business.

The Energy Savings Calculator has the ability to obtain a user’s location and data on sunlight, rainfall, and wind speed to quantify the energy produced from renewable resources. The Energy Savings Calculator can demonstrate any predictable annual savings by setting up the average monthly electricity utilization, preferred efficiency, and the cost of the electric bill for a home or business.

With this new application the users will be able to know the actual energy saving by switching from incandescent bulbs to more energy efficient compact fluorescent or LED light bulbs. The Wind Calculator can compute the ability to generate power through wind with the application of the location’s wind speed and preferred efficiency.

The Water Savings Calculator will compute the potential to collect rainwater by utilizing historical data like inches of rainwater fall for a location. Once a user has accomplished these various Energy Calculators, they can achieve better ideas of the cost and savings concerning each solution.

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TRAKware provides end to end solution for your construction estimating process

TRAKware is a business management solution that contains an extremely instinctive synchronized scheduling system to recreate the production schedule graphically and convey it to all the personnel engaged with the project.

TRAKware provides great benefits to a large number of industry sectors that range from Retail Environments / Store Fixtures, Architectural Woodworking / Architectural Millwork, Cabinets & Casegoods, Doors & Windows, Furniture, Equipment, Oil & Gas (Rigs, Pressure Vessels, Piping, Separators, Tanks, Skids), Metal Fabricators, Plastic Injection Molding, Solid Surface, Truck Mounted Equipment and Electronics, contract, engineer-to-order (ETO) manufacturing, fabrication, and construction companies

TRAKware's ground-breaking and proven parametric configuration engine offers huge benefits for estimating, manufacturing, and engineering, during the complete project lifecycle.

TRAKware is mostly applied by metal fabircators. TRAKware can resolve particular issues and generate an incorporated, powerful, consistent and time-tested solution scalable to any size custom metal fabricator.

TRAKware can automatically find out instantaneous labor and material consumption from quoting/estimation through to delivery and installation, finish with start-to-finish traceability.

TRAKware plays a proactive role for midstream corrections when necessary for fabricators. TRAKware can be useful from estimation to project completion. It’s exclusive parametric quoting engine provides quicker, precise estimating to effortlessly capture all valuable project information required to drive material, labor & work order management, purchasing, receiving, inventory, scheduling, invoicing, and change-order management from the original estimator’s "take-off".

TRAKware can be set up over the divisions of the company reorganizing core business verticals as well as financials, inventory and production management.  Real-time information assimilation from the shop floor - to the top floor facilitating constant visibility and control over all dimension of daily operations. This leads to well-timed and significant decision making.      

Features : -

• Closed-loop estimating (real time effectual feedback from estimating to production to installation)
• Parametric configuration (to deal with the real world of three-dimensional manufactured products)
• Job costing (compatible with any accounting software like Quickbook)
• Project management
• Inventory management
• Production management
• Change management and releasing
• Labor scheduling and tracking (shop floor and field)
• Work order formation
• Warehouse/inventory/material management
• Automatic generation of Bills of Material (BOM's)
• Capacity management and planning
• Work flow / business process management / process optimization
• Fully automated shop floor data collection
• TimeTrack mobile that assembles and reports location, time and job information from any GPS-enabled mobile device

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Nomitech introduces CostOS Version 4.3 with implanted BIM measure and parametric assemblies

Nomitech just launches the updated version of its Cost Estimating solution, CostOS 4.3.  

With this new version the estimating professionals will be able to price any phase of an estimate (from cost plan or viability to final bid) on a solitary platform, with implanted BIM measure and parametric assemblies by applying local (historic) or online data .

CostOS Version 4.3 is incorporated with Oracle’s Primavera P6, fully supporting Oracle’s technology (database, Java etc).

The users can modify their pricing layout to fulfill the requirements of various styles of tender.

CostOS  can generate parametric smart assemblies and cost models to rapidly price recurring and compound structures.

CostOS effectively work in assessing alternatives and value engineering opportunities, instantly and precisely.

CostOS  provides resource price escalations to anticipate costs over the period of the project.

The cost estimator will be in a position to produce the Bill of Quantities straightforwardly on their 3D model and verify how it is developed as your estimate is in-progress. The estimator can apply the local/server cost database, the online commercial databases (i.e. Richardson, Spon’s, NODOC) equally to locate cost data compatible with the chosen entities and directly allocate this data to their model.

CostOS facilitates a construction company to create a network involving suppliers and subcontractors and maintain a record of the cost efficiency of its equipment fleet, a database with cost rates from diverse geographical regions.

The quantity takeoff of anyproject (Architectural, Structural, Mechanical, HVAC, Electrical etc) is greatly enhanced with unmatched precision.

With CostOS’s system recognition the estimator can perform on mechanical models with superior accuracy & speed and effortlessly detect omissions or inaccuracies of the design and revise their estimate consequently.

The 3D cost viewer produces a visual illustration of the cost. Connect to an entity of the 3D model and notice immediately the resources and the cost associated with it. Utilize various layouts and offer the project owner with a visual observation depicting what he will acquire for his budget. Designers, Contractors and Project Owners can interrelate easily and bring the most cost effective or best value for money solutions. 

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How iPads and Android tablets are utilized to smooth the construction process

Now-a-days technology has brought a sea change in construction sectors. The third-generation iPad and improving Android tablets are playing a vital role for every construction industry.

The contractors can utilize iPads for gathering information form project blueprints and architect’s drawings to schedule and material inventory. The contractor can just open up his blueprints application, markup the issue and email it to the architect. With iPad the contractors can snap panoramic photographs during the construction phases tagged with the location wherever the image was located.

After the completion of the project iPad facilitate building owner to view what’s located behind the walls and present the view of the photographs previously snapped of the same location.   

iPad can generate a x-ray vision to the contractors and worker for viewing through wall,  3D walk-throughs of a blueprints and instant amendment of specifications all through theconstruction process.

The contractors can walk around the job site with reorganized documents in a electronic tablet.

iPads are connected with the other computer systems that conveys minute information from project blueprints, architect’s drawings, schedules and material inventory.

The contractors can get a clear view of the site and deliver it to the design and get design solution within a second.

By applying iPads, contractors can show up to the job site prepared prior to meet with other team members of the project and having different set of drawings. The construction professionals can also receive a constantly updated version of blueprints at their fingertips.

The contractors can take a sequence of photos with a wide-angle photographic lens before the drywall goes on and stitch them with iPano which provide a total pan of the room to maintain record. As for instance, if a leak is detected, the contractor can locate the area prior to splitting the wall apart by using the iPad to view accurately where the pipes in question are located.

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