PriMus - Cost Estimating Software
The ideal software for designers and companies who want to optimize their construction cost management activities
PriMus is the cost estimating software that allows users to quickly and intuitively get:
- construction and works estimates
- estimates and works proposals
- construction site material requirements analysis
- construction site cost management
Easily manage rate analysis for work items, import and export price lists and cost estimate documents in Excel® and Word® file formats.
Cost estimate documentsPriMus produces and manages a multitude of document types:
- price lists with unit rates;
- construction cost estimates;
- job estimates;
- requests for proposals (RFP);
- comparison charts;
- project documents and templates;
- labor incidence estimates;
- health and safety incidence estimates;
- technical specifications.
PriMus has a real “Print Manager” that allows you to produce and customize all documents relating to a project.
You can add text using spelling and grammar support tools, insert images, customize your documents and printouts with great flexibility and according to your needs in RTF, WORD, PDF, HTML, ASCII and CSV.
Construction Cost Estimating DatabaseWith PriMus you get free access to an extensive Costruction Cost Estimating Database of price books and online price lists with over 6 million items, materials and prices for building and plant engineering works.
Use our integrated procedures for converting your own licensed Price Lists and Price Books to PriMus compatible file formats.
Or simply ask us to convert your price book or reference price list if not available in the online database or if the conversion procedure is not available in PriMus.
WYSIWYG user interface (What You See Is What You Get): easier to work with, easier to learnWork on your PC just as you normally would from your office desk: the quantity survey and price list layouts are integrated into the program interface to give you a unique working experience; the same you are already used to when working on paper.
Open multiple documents all at once price lists or price books, organising them on screen and as you would on your office desk.
Work intuitively with drag & drop actions that allow you to efficiently copy all types of quantity surveying data from one document to another drastically reducing the amount of time necessary to learn how to use the software.
Object technology: integrated Price Lists and Cost Estimates to reduce the risk of errorPriMus is the first object oriented Bill of Quantities and estimating software: the data input phase is no longer a seperate process from the final document display, because each document type can be used to add or modify measurement data.
The price list, cost estimating, bill of quantities and bid request that refer to a single job are all integrated withing a single file.
At the slightlest change, even in a description, a unit rate or a quantity, all the relating documents are updated automatically.
Drawing – BoQ connections: acquire measurement data dynamically from a CAD drawing created with AutoCADWhen editing and inserting measurements, PriMus allows the quantity surveyor, by means of the PriMus for CAD module, to automatically acquire metric data from drawing entities thanks to a dynamic interaction between the project cost estimate and the CAD drawings prepared with AutoCAD LT and AutoCAD.
You can seamlessly transfer graphical entity dimensions, or CAD “block” attributes, directly from the drawing to the Bill of quantities, keeping a dynamic interaction between the CAD drawing, PriMus and its various document types active.
Import and export in standard formatsA bill of quantities or cost estimate document, created with PriMus, can be saved in the standard XML, XPWE and PWE file formats; the produced data is open to everyone and exchangeable with anyone and with any other software procedure.
The PriMus features can be integrated with other external applications and with other ACCA software solutions too such as the 3D building design Edificius and the structural engineering analysis software EdiLus.
PriMus also supports document view export and import to Word and Excel file formats.
PriMus supports PDF document import too (Requests For Proposals, Bills of Quantities, Estimates and Price Lists) printed with PriMus and automatic processing of a PDF into a PriMus file for data management.