Hope someone can help!

[hcubed]

I am a sales consultant for a construction company. When clients come and ask for a price on one of our house designs, I try to do up a PTE (Pre Tender Estimate), so for example a clothes line costs around $225, but for example if they want render, which is a cement based coating to the brick wall or tiles or carpet, then I have to guess the price.

Now I can get the dimensions of the walls, floor areas etc and the $ per sqm for doing the work.

How difficult is it to create a database that for example you put in the name of the house design in the floor areas come up, internal and external wall area comes up with a total price for tiles for example.

Hope this all makes sense!

Cheers


Hans

 

[SamBones]

Hi Hans,

This sounds pretty easy to set up. If you are the only one using it, it could be as simple as an Excel workbook, but you would need some pretty good knowlege of Excel to get the functionality you're looking for.

There may already be software out there that does what you're looking for. I'm not in construction, but I just did a Google search for "costruction estimation software" and it came back with a lot of sites (814,000 results)! It looks like your biggest problem would be narrowing down the field.

You should find out if your company can budget for some software. It should pay for itself very quickly if you can get faster more accurate bids out.

Hope this helps.