Manufacturing facilities, process piping, plant structural steel, equipment setting and heavy MEP distribution.
A 6" stainless line and a 6" carbon steel line are different money, so piping is never aggregated by diameter. Each line is measured against its specification and service, with valves, fittings and supports counted individually.
For fabricators, steel is taken off by member and connection type. That separation is what lets a shop change its rate without anyone rebuilding the estimate.
Piping aggregated across specs, connection labour buried inside a tonnage rate, and shutdown or live-plant productivity losses left out.
Each one has its own page covering how that trade is measured, the units it is measured in, and the errors we look for.
Anonymised: no client names, project numbers or drawing extracts. Each card states what was measured and how the deliverable was structured.
Ongoing steel takeoffs measured by member and connection type, so tonnage, shop hours and field bolt-up could be priced independently against a shop rate that moved through the year.
Piping measured line by line against specification and service rather than aggregated by diameter, with valves, fittings, supports and specialty items counted individually and priced apart from installation hours.
Reinforced equipment pads, anchor bolt assemblies and setting labour for a production facility, with the productivity loss of working inside a partially operating plant priced explicitly.
Yes. The productivity loss of working around operating equipment is applied as a stated factor on the affected scope. Pricing live-plant tie-ins at greenfield rates is one of the most expensive errors in industrial estimating.
Yes, with routing assumptions written down so they can be checked when isometrics are issued. Revisions inside the agreed scope carry no additional fee.
Yes: pads, anchor bolt assemblies, setting labour and rigging, priced alongside the structural and piping scope.
A fixed fee, a firm delivery date and a written scope statement, usually back the same working day.
Fixed project fees · Written scope before work starts · Unlimited revisions within scope
