Estimating System

This windows application used the Customized Cost and Works data for managing entire Estimating process for Construction according to the American Construction Standards. It supported different business models like General Contracting, Design Build Contracts, Agency construction management(CM) and At-risk CM using the standard estimate steps such as Estimate Creation (association of Crew i.e. Location wise labor, using analysis, material and equipment support for the same), Data Entry, Take Off, Mark up value management, Recapitulation (Recap) with sub-vendor bid management and Summary of Recap section. The entire system was using a base system which required a careful implementation as flexibility was the core of the entire estimating system and at any moment the user was allowed to change the Crew and Cost groups associated. User can perform any kind of add, modify and delete operation on the base system. System also generated critical reports and Gantt Charts (in some special cases). Integrating Role based security was another major challenge as the administrator was allowed to define and assign permissions at the runtime to the existing user groups.