Cost Estimating Software

Free Construction Cost Estimates BoQs, Rate Analysis and Price Lists | PriMus | ACCA software

The ideal software for designers and companies who want to optimize their construction cost management activities

Easily manage rate analysis for work items, import and export price lists and cost estimate documents in Excel® and Word® file formats.

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Quickly and intuitively get construction and works estimates, estimates and works proposals, construction site material requirements analysis and construction site cost management

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Cost estimate documents

PriMus produces and manages a multitude of document types:

  • price lists with unit rates;
  • construction cost estimates;
  • job estimates;
  • requests for proposals (RFP);
  • comparison charts;
  • project documents and templates;
  • labor incidence estimates;
  • health and safety incidence estimates;
  • technical specifications.

PriMus has a real “Print Manager” that allows you to produce and customize all documents relating to a project.

You can add text using spelling and grammar support tools, insert images, customize your documents and printouts with great flexibility and according to your needs in RTF, WORD, PDF, HTML, ASCII and CSV.

 

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Price Lists and Price Book databases | PriMus | ACCA software

Price Lists and Price Book databases

With PriMus you have free online access to a database of international price books and price lists that collect numerous items, materials and prices for building and plant engineering works.

To convert your databases:

  • Alternatively, the conversion tool, PW-CONV, already provides you with various procedures for converting price lists or price book databases (for which you must detain the license for use) into a format which is compatible with PriMus.
  • Through a dedicated service available on the program Home page section, you can always ask us to evaluate the possibility of converting your reference price book or price list if not available in the online database or if the conversion procedure isn't available yet directly in PriMus.
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WYSIWYG user interface (What You See Is What You Get): easier to work with, easier to learn

Work on your PC just as you normally would from your office desk: the quantity survey and price list layouts are integrated into the program interface to give you a unique working experience; the same you are already used to when working on paper.

Open multiple documents all at once price lists or price books, organising them on screen and as you would on your office desk.

Work intuitively with drag & drop actions that allow you to efficiently copy all types of quantity surveying data from one document to another drastically reducing the amount of time necessary to learn how to use the BIM software.

 

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Object technology: integrated Price Lists and Cost Estimates to reduce the risk of error

PriMus is the first object oriented Bill of Quantities and estimating software: the data input phase is no longer a seperate process from the final document display, because each document type can be used to add or modify measurement data.

The price list, cost estimating, bill of quantities and bid request that refer to a single job are all integrated withing a single file.

At the slightlest change, even in a description, a unit rate or a quantity, all the relating documents are updated automatically.

 

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Drawing – BoQ connections: acquire measurement data dynamically from a CAD drawing created with AutoCAD

When editing and inserting measurements, PriMus allows the quantity surveyor, by means of the PriMus for CAD module, to automatically acquire metric data from drawing entities thanks to a dynamic interaction between the project cost estimate and the CAD drawings prepared with AutoCAD LT and AutoCAD.

You can seamlessly transfer graphical entity dimensions, or CAD “block” attributes, directly from the drawing to the Bill of quantities, keeping a dynamic interaction between the CAD drawing, PriMus and its various document types active.

 

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Import and export in standard formats

A bill of quantities or cost estimate document, created with PriMus, can be saved in the standard XML, XPWE and PWE file formats; the produced data is open to everyone and exchangeable with anyone and with any other software procedure.

The PriMus features can be integrated with other external applications and with other ACCA software solutions too such as Edificius and EdiLus.

PriMus also supports document view export and import to Word and Excel file formats (2007/2010).

PriMus supports PDF document import too (Requests For Proposals, Bills of Quantities, Estimates and Price Lists) printed with PriMus and automatic processing of a PDF into a PriMus file for data management.

 

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Work sections as categories in the cost estimate or Bill of quantities

PriMus allows the quantity surveyor to easily organise a bill of quantities or cost estimate into different work sections to group homogeneous categories of work in an organic manner.

Each BoQ can be subdivided into three levels of grouping allowing to achieve a detailed breakdown of all work items. This kind of subdivision produces an mmediate picture in terms of costs for each work section (for example, structures, finishes, all furniture, etc.).
Using different levels of subdivision allows the surveyor to instantly view cost details for super-groupings or sub-groupings; for example, for the “structure category” the program can provide filtered measurement and cost data relating to the sub-structures (foundations) and the costs relating to the building’s super-structure.

Categories can also be useful during data input, because with PriMus you work by selecting a category at a time, but can also turn out to be useful when printing to get very detailed quantity surveying documents.

 

Functions related to the calculation and price list: Prices Analysis, Building site material requirements, Technical installations

With PriMus you can prepare and build up new rates using the dedicated Rate Analysis editor and view, in addition to the elementary tariff items, your own rate analyzed items within the Price List editor.

Each individual cost item composes the total rate are elementary items, free item descriptions, data from price lists or even other rate build ups deriving from other projects. Particular rate analysis studies can be defined for special items relating to plant facilities by means of material details and installation time schedules.

PriMus also allows the quantity surveyor to address material requirements identifying human resources, materials, machines, etc. necessary for project realization.

 

Health and safety cost management

PriMus manages both the work type aspects and the Health and safety costs. The surveyor has the can take into acount all site preparation and safety measures for the application of a detailed health and safety plan.

 

Request For Proposal management

PriMus allows you to create an RFP from the Bill of Quantities. The resulting file can be sent to all participants so that they can work on the document, complete the offer and, at the same time, preserve the initial tender data. Tenders can be grouped up, managed and also be automatically compared via the Internet.

 

Smart Price Books

Smart Price Books is the intelligent search service for fast and direct access to the online price lists-net resources available online.

 

Price List tariff alignment

PriMus allows you to actualize the Price List items and rates, used in a Bill of Quantities or Cost Estimate, to the latest official revision.

 

Advanced document management: to co-operate or keep document revisions under control

With compMERGE feature you can integrate the different versions of a revised document in time; with compDIFFERENCE, differences or changes made to the document during its creation are easily detected, even by several operators.

 

Integration with Edificius

Each object that appears in the architectural project created with the Edificius BIM software is integrated with measurement rows and Price List items; this means that the drawing automatically produces a dynamic bill of quantities in PriMus format.

Dynamic update of the Financial Table

With PriMus the Financial Table is automatically updated asthe BoQ evolves or changes; as the total project cost changes all relating items in the Financial Table will be dynamically updated.

 

Manage Price lists in bill of quantities or cost estimate documents with simple Drag and Drop

With PriMus, you can open price lists directly from the internet and use the tariff data directly with classic Drag and Drop actions. The embedded PW-CONV technology also allows the user to convert other price list formats to the PWE, XPWE and DCF file formats that are compatible with ACCA software range of solutions.

 

Chapters in the Price List

The Price List can be organised into chapters, each of which can enclose, for example, homogeneous tariff items to an individual work type.

Price Lists also have three levels of chapter subdivision that can give huge advantages both during the preparation phases of the document and during printing.

The Quantity surveyor is free to use the Price List chapter organisation or the BoQ categories sorting so as to organize all works according to specific needs and expectations.

 

Document customization

PriMus allows the technician to manage and customize font and text settings directly in the worksheet (Price List and Measurements Editor). All text can be customized with Bold, Italics, Underlined, different text colors and alignments.
Text customizations can of course be printed. The “Find and Replace” feature is also active throughout the entire working environments and editors.

 

Saving, Backup and automatic document recovery

PriMus has advanced features for Saving, Automated Backups and Document Recovery In addition, with the Restore function, you can automatically restore documents in case of accidental closing of the program.

 

Importing PDF forms in PriMus

PriMus supports PDF document import too (Requests For Proposals, Bills of Quantities, Estimates and Price Lists) printed with PriMus and automatic processing of a PDF into a PriMus file for data management.

 

UNDO Feature

The “Undo” function allows the quantity Surveyor to cancel the most recent changes by restoring the previous situation.

 

Print History – document revisions

With this feature you can keep several revisions of the document during its drafting. In this way, you can consult the various revisions anytime, compare them with the current one, restore the initial version or part of it.

 

Post_it feature

This function is used to associate notes to teh Price List, and Measurement row editors; all data is then saved when the document is closed.

 

Bookmark

With BookMark tool you can mark a specific area in your document so as to make it easily accessible from any other document type. PriMus allows you to place these references within the document editor; during the drafting of the document, it turns out to be easier to jump from a specific Measurement row to another and then back to the starting point again.

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FAQ

PriMus offers you a free conversion service for price books and price lists.

If your database is in the Excel format, you can import it directly into PriMus. Alternatively, the conversion tool, PW-CONV, already provides you with various procedures for converting price list or price book databases (for which you must detain the license for use) into a format which is compatible with PriMus.

If the conversion procedure isn't available yet, you can always request a conversion using our dedicated service available in the program's Home section. Our team will then evaluate the feasibility of the conversion process.

The PriMus suite is composed of single stand-alone software solutions designed to meet every kind of specific need:

  • PriMus, for construction cost estimates, bills of quantities and works estimates;
  • PriMus KRONO, for construction project management, time scheduling and planning;
  • PriMus TAKEOFF, for preparing Cost Estimates and Bill of Quantities from CAD and PDF files;
  • PriMus IFC, for construction cost estimates from BIM Models.

The PriMus suite comparison chart:

  PriMus PriMus IFC PriMus PLUS PriMus FULL
COST ESTIMATE, BOQS AND QUOTES
BoQ and work estimate        
Bids and proposals        
Analysis of construction site needs        
Accounting        
Importing and exporting to standard formats (XLS, DOC, ...)        
Import of databases, price lists and price books        
QUANTITY TAKE OFFS FROM IFC FILES
Open IFC standard formats of BIM or 3D CAD models        
View and navigate 3D BIM or CAD models directly in the integrated viewer        
Assignment of Price List items to BIM or 3D CAD objects        
Automatic measurements with artificial intelligence from 3D BIM or CAD model        
Constantly updated cost estimate when editing the 3D BIM or CAD model        
Data export in Word™, Excel™ formats        
QUANTITY TAKE OFF FROM CAD DRAWINGS OR RASTER FILES
Opening of standard DXF/DWG CAD DRAWING FILES        
Raster (PDF, BMP, JPG, etc.) management        
Associate Price list items to graphical entities        
Quantity Takeoff from CAD files        
Quantity Takeoff from PDF files        
Take off from image files        
Dynamic BoQ updating when editing drawing models        
Connection with your CAD or your CAD environment in PriMus TAKEOFF        
CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULING
Integration with other Project time Schedules or construction cost estimates        
Works financial plan analysis and control        
Works resources analysis integrated with the construction cost estimate        
Work resources analysis integrated within the BoQ document        
Job resources requirements analysis        
Activity scheduling, resources analysis between the design and construction phases        
Data export in Excel and PDF        
GANTT, charts and reports printout management        

Yes, PriMus gives you free access to an International Database of online price books and price lists with numerous items, materials and prices for building and plant engineering works.