In times of dwindling resources and increasing competition, cost issues are becoming ever more important. Structures are economical only if they require minimum effort and achieve high value added, and therefore, costs have become a significant parameter, along with design and scheduling. So, why not make a virtue of necessity? Being involved in the planning process, you can influence costs considerably, and can use the issue of cost as an impulse to seek creative, innovative structural solutions. Our modern software tools for cost planning help you to calculate costs in various ways. They enable you to visualise what both you and the client are thinking, enabling a reliable budget to be drawn up at an early stage.

"State-of-the-art cost calculation tools benefit both those involved in designing the structure and the client. They lead to more reliability in planning, a better understanding of the costs involved, and make it easier to change the design and check construction invoices." Michael Kiessling, Civil Engineer and Business Manager Cost Management at Nemetschek

Highlights

• You have the tools you need to be creative without losing sight of the budget.
• You have the opportunity to investigate and compare various alternatives and their costs.
• You can generate reliable quantity structures for cost planning, from your initial estimation to calculating, quoting, determining, checking and forecasting costs.
• Ultimately, you and the client profit from more reliable plans due to consistency, reliability of costs and quantities, and increased transparency.