Accuracy you can audit.
Builders know pricing better than anyone. What nobody has at tender time is the spare hours to measure every drawing properly. That is the part we do — and we hand you the working, so you can check it rather than trust it.
We prove the sheet before we measure it.
Most drawings say do not scale, and most drawings are right to say so. Sheets get re-plotted, scaled to fit, exported at the wrong size. So before a single quantity comes off a page, that sheet is proven to scale — and proven against something the architect did not draw.
The strongest check is a registered survey or the land title, because the truth does not come from the same author as the drawing. On a recent 71-sheet construction set the site boundaries agreed with the registered survey to within 0.05%, and the sheet's own scale was confirmed to 0.002%.
Once the scale is proven, the geometry becomes evidence and the printed numbers become claims that can be tested against it. Your pack carries that proof, sheet by sheet, so you are not taking our word for it.
The industry standard tool. Ours, not yours.
We run Bluebeam Revu — the take-off software the industry actually works in — and every quantity is taken off the drawings and cited back to the sheet it came from. You do not buy the licence, and you do not learn the software.
Calibrated, not eyeballed
Each page proven to scale before a single quantity is taken — against a registered survey or title where the set carries one, and against the sheet's own dimension chains where it does not.
Cross-checked
Architectural, structural, hydraulic and energy documents reconciled against each other. Anything that does not line up is flagged, with the working, whether or not it changes the number.
Signed off by a person
Software will happily measure a wall that was never meant to be there. Every set is reviewed line by line by someone who has estimated and built in Australia.
Measured, checked, and the big lines re-measured.
Every take-off is checked a second time before it is issued, and the measurements carrying the most money or the most doubt are re-measured by hand in Bluebeam by a qualified construction manager with years of estimating experience. Every variance is traced and explained before anything is issued.
Where the second measure differs from the first, the difference is traced and explained before anything is issued — every time.
We measure it, then we check it.
Printed areas and volumes are the architect's working figures, not measurements taken for pricing. Consultants draw from different models at different revisions, so the numbers on one sheet and the numbers on another do not always line up. That is normal — it just needs catching before it reaches a tender.
On a recent set, eight figures did not reconcile across the documents — areas, volumes and schedule quantities that should have agreed and did not. Each one was traced back to which document it came from and what it was worth.
None of that changes what you build. All of it changes what you should price, and who needs to fix it before you commit.
Every document in the set, not just the floor plans.
Quantities hide in the schedules. The window schedule, the joinery schedule, the finishes and fixture schedules and the BASIX certificate carry more measurable detail than the plans do — and they are the documents most often skimmed when a tender is closing.
Glazing schedules
Every unit sized, typed and counted. On a glass-heavy build this single schedule can be the largest package on the job.
Joinery elevations
Scoped room by room so your joiner can quote off a real schedule instead of a floor plan.
Fixtures and fittings
Counted per room and separated into measured work and prime cost items the client selects.
Wet area finishes
Wall and floor tiling measured off the finishes schedule and the wet-area plans, with the waterproofing beside it, so your tiler quotes the same rooms you do.
Interior finishes
Flooring, carpet and paint systems matched to the room schedule so nothing is measured twice or missed.
Structural documents
Slab thicknesses, reinforcement and concrete strength. The quantities here move a number more than anything on the floor plans.