How Richardson database Integration helps HeavyBid Customers

Integrating Richardson database into HeavyBid brings 47+ years of process industry construction data to the most powerful estimating tool in construction. This means no manual entry of data or searching online through pages. HeavyBid and Richardson database together let you quickly develop a detailed cost estimate by simply selecting items of work from an easy-to-navigate structure that’s built into HeavyBid.

By adding Richardson database access to HeavyBid, you get:

• Up-to-date cost breakdowns on thousands of unit cost items and assemblies.
• Guides for specialty items.
  Estimate what it costs to self-perform specialty items you’ve never estimated before or would normally subcontract.
• Location-specific cost factors.
  Richardson database boasts city cost indexes across the United States and Canada.

A few ways Richardson database data can help HeavyBid customers:

• Easily build change order estimates for owners who require Richardson database cost data to control change order pricing. (HeavyBid allows for the quick assembly of these estimates, and Richardson database provides the cost and crew data.)
• Quickly build an estimate for types of work that are outside your area of expertise.
• Build better estimates for work that is outside your geographic area, when the estimator needs a cost estimate with local labor rates.
• Richardson database allows a new HeavyBid customer to quickly create a standardized database that can easily be customized. HeavyBid can come powered with setup data so you can start estimating today!
• Engineering companies and owners who don’t have their own labor, equipment, and material cost history can produce quick and accurate cost or budget estimates.