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Kpex 4Builders

Construction estimating for contractors, part of the Kpex family: a price library escalated every month with the Kpex Cost Index, unit-rate build-ups, budgets and reports, and the control of the job — takeoff, progress payments, variations, price adjustment, schedule and site diary.

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What is Kpex 4Builders
The construction estimating tool of the Kpex family, built for contractors: the dashboard, the price library, how an estimate is built and the control of the job, on a demonstration project.
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Company profile
Your company data, logos and signatures, and the paper size of every report — set once and used in every project.
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Unit rate library
Almost 30,000 reusable unit-rate build-ups organised by origin, chapter and family — the starting point of every budget.
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Materials, equipment and labour
The resources behind every build-up, with prices escalated to the current month, the hourly cost of equipment and the crews that work together.
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Labour burden
The social charges of each country added to the base wage — paid leave, bonuses, social security and the rest — with their legal basis.
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Project and budget
Create the project, its chapters and its line items from the library or with crews, and see the budget with markups, tax and the location and escalation factors.
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Quantity takeoff
Measurement lines per line item — count × length × width × height, with deductions — that set the quantities of the budget.
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General expenses, AACE class and risk
Site and head-office general expenses estimated item by item, the AACE estimate class, the contingency and the basis of estimate; plant turnarounds follow AACE 112R.
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Reports
The documents you submit: summary, basis of estimate, budget, takeoff and every unit-rate build-up, in PDF and in Excel with the look of the PDF.
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Contract and progress payments
Sign the contract baseline, then certify the work executed period by period, with advance payment, amortisation and retention.
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Variations and price adjustment
Increases, decreases and extra work approved as variations, and the adjustment of prices with cost indices.
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Schedule
Durations calculated from the crews' production rates, in weeks or months, with the Gantt chart, the S-curve and the cash flow.
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Site diary
The daily record of the job — weather, labour, equipment, progress, incidents and photos — that can fill the progress payment.
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Administration and access
Users and roles of your company, entry from your Kpex account and how to buy Kpex 4Builders.
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How it works

What you get

A price library that stays current
About 30,000 unit rates, 24,000 materials, 850 equipment rates and 300 trades, escalated to the current month with the Kpex Cost Index.
Real crews and production rates
The unit rates start from the 22,000 Kpex Z.2 activities, with their crews, production rates, equipment and materials.
From the estimate to the job site
The same project carries the budget, the contract, the progress payments, the variations, the schedule and the site diary.
Reports ready to submit
Summary, basis of estimate, budget, takeoff and every unit-rate build-up, in PDF and in Excel.
Labour burden by country
The social charges of each country, with their legal basis, applied to every labour rate.
One account with Kpex
Kpex users enter 4Builders from their Kpex account; contractors can also buy it on its own.
Ready to price your next job?
From the estimate to the job site, in one place.
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