Building Information Modelling (BIM) is certainly changing the way project teams work and is taking the construction industry into a new era of quicker and more productive processes, higher cost certainty with a reduction of risks. However most BIM projects are only designed from the ground upwards, not what is below. MudShark and the BIM process Integration [...]
Cairn Homes PLC (CRN.LN) a leading provider of high quality residential properties in Ireland, has made the decision to adopt Buildsoft's Cubit software as its principal measurement and estimating solution which will result in faster and more accurate production of estimates while also enabling a more consistent approach within the company. Buildsoft Cubit is the preferred estimating solution for [...]
First year GMIT student Neal Morris, was the successful recipient of a new laptop sponsored by the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland (SCSI) Western Branch and Buildsoft Cubit software for QS Professionals sponsored by Building Software Services (BSS) at the GMIT awards ceremony held on Thursday 8th December in the G Hotel, Galway. Neal won the prize [...]
Cubit's Options Management feature allows a user to dynamically include or exclude (filter) items within a job, immediately reflecting the overall cost implications throughout the job in real-time, without having to spend time creating a new Job for each scenario the client may require. Similar to Grouping Codes (used for Subcontractor Packages or Tender Analysis), Option Codes can be assigned directly to the Estimate items, or delve further down and assigned to the Calculation Sheet [...]
Brightbox Software is excited to announce the release of the latest major update to our earthworks estimating solution – introducing MudShark 6. Since the release of MudShark 5 (with Trench module), our Development team has been working hard on developing and introducing plenty of new features to help our customers complete their earthworks projects faster with even more accuracy. These features would [...]
As we offer multiple estimating solutions - and often customers are using more than one of them - we've put together a short guide below on moving jobs between Cubit and Global (or Offsider). Why move a job? Transferring a Job into Cubit may be done to turn an old Global/Offsider Job into a Cubit [...]
Managing measurement risk in building and civil engineering provides detailed guidance on the use of on-screen measurement both from BIM models and from 2D data such as CAD drawings, PDF files and digital photographs. Part of the professional armoury of the quantity surveyor is the ability to measure and, for well over a century, this [...]
The next major version release of Cubit is just around the corner. The Buildsoft development team have been working hard on this update by adding new features to the system that should give you more power and flexibility in how you estimate your jobs. This new release is called Cubit 7. One of the major [...]