Twice the work in half the time. What if you could reduce the time you spend estimating for a project and have more accurate estimates? Construction professionals who use estimating software can estimate for a typical project about 4 times faster than contractors who use pen and paper or basic spreadsheets.* With UDA Estimating, you can do twice the work in half the time yet have more professional and precise estimates for all of your projects.
With UDA Estimating, time-saving functionality for estimating is combined with comprehensive, dynamic tools for a variety of projects. Reduce risk and increase profits with comprehensive, precise estimates that include the entire scope of the project.
Calculate true margins that consider all your costs and increase your profits with advanced line item markup and industry-recommended margin calculating methods.
Manage project changes effectively by creating change orders and automatically generating change order proposals and contracts with the Change Order Management system.
Create and use Dimension sets for your project, and then quickly generate quantities for your estimate.
Track and analyze actual vs. estimated costs for greater accuracy and precision in future estimates and projects.
Reuse and repurpose
data. When you use UDA Estimating with
ConstructionSuite as part of an integrated management system, you’ll
discover that rethinking and retyping the same information is no longer
necessary. UDA Estimating integrates with QuickBooks, Cadsoft Envisioneer, UDA Scheduling, UDA Integrated Calendar,
UDA Items Database, UDA Document Management,
UDA Contacts, and UDA Projects as part of
a total management system.
Utilize QuickBooks Integration to easily generate a Chart of Accounts, QuickBooks Estimate, Invoices, and Purchase Orders, then import QuickBooks Actual costs into your estimate for analyzing project success.
Create comprehensive estimates quickly using the UDA Items Database, and update costs with ease.
Assign contacts as resources in your estimate to utilize advanced integration tools with the UDA ConstructionSuite database.
Create a schedule from an estimate and then use advanced synchronization between UDA Estimating and UDA Scheduling.
Create customized reports and proposals that integrate seamlessly with UDA Document Management, including Project Proposals, Project Allowances reports, Materials Lists, and Over-Budget reports, and more.
*Statistics from Builder magazine, January 2001.