Industry
Construction companies
We run IT for construction companies: cost estimating environments with a central database, computers on sites with reliable access to head office, and backup that protects your estimates and tender documentation.
A construction company works in the office and on sites at the same time, and its value is the estimates, bids and tender documentation. Cost estimating environments can be all over the place: everyone on their own version of the program and their own catalogues, with no copies. We tidy this up and connect the sites to head office.
Challenges in this sector
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Cost estimating on a shared database
Cost estimating software works best with a central database and shared price catalogues. Scattered installs and local price lists mean chaos and errors in bids.
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Computers on sites
Site managers and site offices need internet (often LTE) and secure access to head office and documentation, without exposing the company to risk.
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Protection of tender documentation
Bids and estimates are competitively sensitive data. A leak or loss of tender documentation is a real financial loss.
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Backup of estimates and documentation
Losing the cost estimating database or the bid catalogue sets the company back months of work. Copies must be reliable and verified.
Services we pick for this sector
Automation and AI in a construction company
In a construction company a lot of time goes on document flow: bids, contracts, handover records, invoices from subcontractors. Automation and AI help tidy and speed up that flow, for example in sorting documents and preparing schedules.
We deploy them carefully and with control over the data, so that tender documentation does not end up in random tools. We agree the scope with the company, in line with the regulations.
An estimate and a tender bid are the company money written into files. We protect them the way you protect financial documents, because that is what they are.
- central databaseshared catalogues and price lists
- sitesreliable access to head office
- 3-2-1backup of estimates and documentation
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Frequently asked questions
Can you handle a cost estimating environment?
Yes. We take care of the infrastructure the cost estimating software runs on: the server and central database (such as SQL Server for the network edition of Norma EXPERT, cost estimating software), shared catalogues and price lists, database updates and copies. We also handle environments with Zuzia, BIMestiMATE and Rodos (cost estimating software), making sure the team works on one consistent database.
We are moving from Norma PRO to Norma EXPERT, can you help?
Yes. Retiring Norma PRO is a good moment to tidy the whole cost estimating environment along the way: move to the network edition with a central SQL database, sort out the catalogues and price lists and deploy proper backup. We run the migration calmly, without stopping the bidding team.
How do you secure computers on sites?
We provide internet on the site (often over LTE) and a secure, encrypted connection to head office over VPN. We cover the hardware with the same rules as the office: encryption, updates and copies, so the site is not the weak point.
What about backup of estimates and bids?
We run backup with the 3-2-1 rule: many copies, in different locations, with copies resistant to ransomware. We treat cost estimating databases and tender documentation as a priority and regularly test recovery, because it is company money directly.
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