Construction management

Intro

Manage and control project purchases

Prepare purchase orders and subcontract contracts

Learn how to manage and control purchases of materials and subcontracts for your project.

Control purchases

Control construction costs

Carry out real-time cost control of the work, posting customer and supplier invoicing and labor costs.

Carry out and control additional work on the project

Prepare additional work on the project based on the estimate data to present a proposal to the client.

More work

Prepare and manage additional work

Prepare and manage additional work on the project

Subject tree and Notebook editor

Create a reminder from a note

Keep the project's notes, with images, reminders and PDF printing, right inside the estimate.

Construction notebook

Notebook

Prepare the planning of the work and its changes

Create the weekly plan using the Last Planner method

During the construction phase, planning can be adjusted to the reality of the project, creating new versions based on previous planning.

Prepare planning during the construction phase

Carry out measurement records for the work

Prepare measurement reports for the work, additional work and subcontracts.

Prepare measurement reports for the work

Prepare measurement records

Prepare measurement reports for the work and for subcontractors

Supplier list, with filters by specialty, district and text

Import suppliers from an Excel file

Keep a single database of suppliers and subcontractors, by specialty and district, with response history and Excel import.

Manage the supplier list

Suppliers

Re-estimate the project

Re-estimate the work, correcting resource costs, without changing the initial estimate.

Re-estimate the work

Reestimating

Calculate the contract's price revision in accordance with Decree-Law 6/2004 and Decree-Law 73/2021, with IMPIC indices downloaded automatically.

Price revision of the contract

Price revision

Construction Management

Estimation

What is VisualOrc?

What's New

Estimating

Create estimate

Take or check measurements

Import BIM measurements

Compose prices

Introduce direct pricing

Prepare comparative maps

Introduce margins

Analyze and optimize the estimate

Properties and Printing

Planning

Prepare the work plan

Manpower and equipment plan

Get the payment plan

Create the descriptive memory

Create the purchasing plan

External Planning

Follow the latest VisualOrc features, improvements and updates, version by version.

What's New in VisualOrc

Meet all features in Estimating with VisualOrc.

Estimating introduction with VisualOrc

Analyze and optimize the construction estimate

Analyze the estimate, the use of resources and activities and the ABC curve.

Estimate price breakdown

Create new resources in the estimate

Compose estimate prices using activities and resources.

Price composition in the estimate

Compose estimate prices

Use resources in estimate price composition

Compose estimate prices, using activities

Various price list import options into visualorc

Create the estimate file and start the price list from existing data, a BIM model, or from scratch.

Create a new estimate in VisualOrc

Choosing how to start the new estimate's price list

Perform measurements in pdf and dwf files

Carry out measurements in PDF files or drawing files (DWF) for the quote.

Carry out quantity takeoff for the estimate

Quantity Takeoff

Perform measurements directly or on PDF or DXF drawings

Compare supplier proposals item by item against the estimated value, and read prices automatically from PDF.

Prepare comparative maps in VisualOrc

Import a BIM model in IFC and get the quantities of every construction element directly.

Import BIM model measurements in VisualOrc

Import BIM model measurements

Introduce differential margins in the estimate

Administrative overhead costs and profit

Introduce margins into the estimate to calculate sales price, indirect costs and profit.

Introduce margins into the estimate

Create estimate margins directly, by differential margins, by chapters, or by calculating indirect costs and profit

Import price list from excel to VisualOrc quote

Enter direct prices into the quote, from external files (XLS, PDF).

Use direct prices in the quote

Introduce direct prices from suppliers and subcontractors into the estimate

Enter direct prices from suppliers and subcontractors from comparative maps

Check the estimate's key indicators and configure printing: header, footer, options and logo.

Estimate properties and printing in VisualOrc

Descriptive planning memory

Create the work plan description automatically from the planning data.

Create the descriptive memory of the work plan

Prepare the Descriptive Memory of the Work Plan

Create the purchasing plan from the work plan

Create the purchasing plan and control the purchase of materials and subcontracts based on planning data.

Create the project’s purchasing plan

Prepare the work plan for the project based on estimate data.

Develop the work plan for the project

Payment plan and financial schedule

Get the payment plan directly from the work plan and estimate data.

Get the Payment Plan from the Work Plan

Create tasks in External Planning

Task progress and reference payment plan

Plan projects or phases with no price list attached, with tasks and values entered directly or imported from MS Project.

External planning without a price list

Obtain labor plan and equipment plan automatically from work plan data and assign resources to tasks.