5D Cost Estimating and BIM
Sound Familiar?
- Tedious and time-consuming manual data entry
- Your quote was inaccurate due to an error in your data entry
- Your quote was inaccurate because you missed something
- Finding it hard to track design changes, update budgets, or create live breakdowns
- Feeling overwhelmed and frustrated with how much time you're spending on estimates
5D Estimating and BIM
Sigma Estimates helps you overcome these issues with some of our most popular features.
Create informational transparency using cost and planning accuracy
Connect and utilise data with 2D and 3D design
Create and deliver data for planning and field execution - 5D estimating data
Build up and share cost and assemble knowledge from historical projects
Extend functionality to related relevant workflows and processes with the Open API
How does Sigma's 5D Estimating Work?
Automated Takeoff Data
Sigma’s 5D Estimating can access data contained in the 2D digital plans or the 3D model. This means the normal time-consuming and error-prone duties are largely eliminated from the Estimators workload.
System Calculations
The reduction in manual processes such as measuring or counting everything in a set of plans or models will inevitably reduce the level of errors. And you can imagine that it can drastically increase the overall accuracy.
Re-Use Historical Data
With our quick and easy 2D quantity takeoff and 3D Model takeoff, you can easily access historical cost data and easily get a structured overview of all model assemblies that are ready-to-estimate ready-to-share or both.
Connect your Data across systems Store and Upload
You have the ability to connect estimate data across your systems. With a click of a button, your estimate will be placed in the BIM 360 cloud to use for project planning, cost management and more. Plus, you control what information is accessible based on role or project *
Pass 5D Estimating Data to the Field to Manage Costs
Your 5D estimating data can be passed to cost management tools to let field management compare actual vs. budgeted data. Plus, in a single click your estimate can be transformed into a CSI budget and added to your BIM 360 Cost Management.*
Get the Project Built Right with Construction Insight
Your Project Managers now have complete insight into the project with 5D estimating information that’s visualized in a 3D model for project field execution. By sharing a simple link, you can give your field personnel a complete understanding of not only how to build, but also the costs, materials and specifications. *
Connect to 5D Estimating with Sigma
Why Choose Sigma?
As you complete price and quantity details for individual building sections, the total price of the construction project is automatically summarised on the Summary sheet. From here you can drill back down into the pricing details for each section if you wish.
When you have finished and saved an estimate, you can reuse these estimates for new construction projects by importing building sections from an existing project into a new one. You do not need to update any formulas because Sigma does it for you – the only thing you need to change is the pricing and quantity.
In this way, you will gradually build your own database of estimates for building parts that you regularly use. Then you have them ready for the next construction project you need to estimate in Sigma.
Download a free trial of our general contractors estimating software and find out for yourself. You will see how easy estimating can be, and once you have tried it you will wonder how you managed without it!