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Pre-Construction Ideas Portal

Welcome to the Causeway Pre-Construction Ideas Portal đź‘‹ Here, you'll be able to browse improvement ideas raised by our community, vote on ideas you agree with or even raise your own ideas. We review all ideas raised and we endeavour to respond to all raised ideas.

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Estimating

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Carbon estimating

As well as a unit rate, we must be able to include embodied carbon data and be able to make decision on carbon as well as price
Ian Badhams over 1 year ago in Estimating / Embodied carbon reporting form estimates / Price 3 Planned

Ability to undo previous actions

Ability to undo How can we facilitate this within NG Est (Ian) Pre to saving for example
Ian Badhams over 1 year ago in Estimating / Describe / Measure / Price / Report 0

Report output into client required formats

AI to read Clients template and output in the relevant format (simple BoQ, LPMS split, full resource breakdown, etc)
Ian Badhams over 1 year ago in Estimating / Reporting output to excel / Reporting output to PDF 0

Pricing - actual rates from costing system

Link with completed works for visibility of actual outputs achieved.
Ian Badhams over 1 year ago in Estimating / Price 0

Pricing - Automatic update of BoQ amendments

Automatic update of BoQ amendments
Ian Badhams over 1 year ago in Estimating / Price 0

Smart Estimating : AI match Item description to Library rates for pricing

AI to price rates from Estimating Library using text recognition and machine learning. Confidence level of match to be returned allowing estimator to focus on low % confidence items. Over time, library can be manually improved to increase AI align...
Ian Badhams over 1 year ago in Estimating / Price 0

Resource rates from SAP (external systems)

Could there be an interface with SAP to see actual payments for resources (noting the alignment of codes)
Ian Badhams over 1 year ago in Estimating / Resource database 0

Access to supply chain data > framework agreements

By way of example, our Supply Chain colleagues manage framework agreements with equipment providers, could these be linked so they are always current in the Estimating library? Linked to this, could this include a toggle to define a specific suppl...
Ian Badhams over 1 year ago in Estimating / Price 0

Resource rates updating estimate rates from external source

Could some form of API be integrated into Estimating to link resource costs to other data sources (spreadsheets, www, databases, etc)
Ian Badhams over 1 year ago in Estimating / Resource database 0

Resource coding > Sufficient characters to allow alignment with SAP

Resource coding > Sufficient characters to allow alignment with SAP
Ian Badhams over 1 year ago in Estimating / Resource database 0