Cost library development services
Your historical costs, supplier pricing and crew productivity built into structured assemblies you own.
Cost library development
Published cost data is a starting point, not an answer. A library built from your own completed projects, your suppliers and your crews is more accurate than any national average, and it gets better every month it is maintained.
Assemblies are built to your standard details so a recurring wall type, slab or fit-out is priced in one step rather than measured from scratch. A slow quarter is the cheapest time to build this, which is exactly when most contractors do not.
Turnaround
Built over a retained arrangement
Who it is for
Contractors bidding continuously who want their own numbers rather than published averages.
Cost library development
- Assemblies built to your standard details
- Crew productivity rates derived from your completed jobs
- Supplier and material pricing maintained over time
- Regional wage tables for the markets you bid in
- Historical cost analysis and benchmarking
- Ongoing maintenance under a retained arrangement
The deliverable.
Consistent whatever the engagement, so it drops into how you already work.
Structured cost library in Excel or your estimating system
Assembly documentation and basis notes
Periodic update cycles
Common questions on cost library development.
You do. It is built from your data, delivered in a format you can use without us, and maintained only for as long as you want it maintained.
It is built progressively under a retained arrangement rather than as one deliverable, usually starting with the assemblies you bid most often and expanding from there.
Work that usually sits alongside this.
Most engagements combine more than one of these.
Tell us what you need priced.
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