The contractor's estimate, built by the engineer.
Opinions of probable construction cost priced from what the work actually went for: state DOT lettings near the project (North Carolina's are in first) and your firm's own bid tabs, on quantities taken off your drawings, with the site's own earthwork. Bond estimates on the town's form. Options side by side for the owner. And after the opening, the engineer's whole record of construction, from the inspector's daily report to the closeout package.
An opinion that says what it rests on.
Every estimate carries its class, its range and its basis, the way AACE 98R-18 asks.
Class and range
Pick the estimate class from how complete the design is; the expected range starts in the middle of the class and says so when you move it.
Escalation by what moves
Diesel, asphalt, concrete, pipe and aggregate each escalate with their own published price index from your price date to the middle of construction.
Basis of estimate
Scope, method, references, assumptions, exclusions and risks, written once and printed with the opinion.
For whoever reads it
An owner's budget carries contingency and its range; one to compare bids against carries the bid form's items and nothing else; a funding agency's keeps each alternate apart.
Issued, then shared
The engineer of record issues it. The client opens it from a link, with no account, and downloads the PDF on your letterhead.
Excel when they ask
The whole estimate downloads as a workbook: pay items, activities, resources and totals.
Quantities from the design you already have.
Your quantity reports
A Civil 3D quantity takeoff report, an OpenRoads quantity export or a Bluebeam markups list becomes pay items, repeated items added up.
Your CAD standard
Map your layers once: curb as length, sidewalk hatches as area, inlets as a count. Every drawing in that standard takes off itself.
Surfaces, pipes and alignments
LandXML brings in surfaces, pipe networks with their inverts and structure sizes, and alignments with their profiles.
Earthwork that knows the site
Cut and fill between surfaces, mass haul, sections along a centerline you draw and a site balancer, priced with real haul distances.
State pay item lists
The state DOT's pay item list checks your item numbers and units, and adds items in the agency's own words. North Carolina's and South Carolina's are in, with more states to come.
Stage-storage tables
The as-built pond surface gives the area and storage at every stage, for an SCM's release.
The rest of what an engineer files.
Bond estimates
The remaining public improvements at the jurisdiction's own prices and add-ons, checked against the state's bond rule (North Carolina's 125% of the cost to complete so far). Each reduction copies the last.
Value-engineering options
Raise the floor a foot, trade a wall for a slope, import from a nearer pit: each option priced side by side, with what the quantity did and what the price did.
Bid results
Load the tabulation after the opening and see where your estimate landed, overall and item by item, and your record against FHWA's ±10% of the low bid.
Public prices nearby
Your pay items beside what the same items went for in state DOT lettings (NCDOT's so far), and in bid tabulations your firm loads.
Roles for a firm
An engineer of record who issues and approves, designers who prepare, resident project representatives who keep the record on site, reviewers who read.
With the contractors who build it
Aggrado Site is built for the sitework contractors who bid and build the work, so the engineer's estimate and the contractor's can sit on the same pay items.
Through the agencies and out to bid.
Agency reviews and permits
Each set of plans through the town, the state and the DOT, round by round, with the days it sat with the agency and the days it sat with you.
Comment letters into a list
AI reads the comment letter into its comments for you to check, and drafts answers from your firm's past ones, marked as drafts until an engineer reads them. The response letter prints on your letterhead.
A permit register
Every permit's number, fee and expiry in one list, with a warning before one runs out.
The bid room
The official plan holder list, free for bidders to join, with every addendum emailed to every holder and each acknowledgment tracked.
Questions and the opening
Bidders' questions answered and published, and each bidder checked at the opening against the register, the addenda and the prebid sign-in.
An early opinion from a few numbers
A Class 5 opinion from lots, street length or feet of main, priced from your own book before there are quantities.
The engineer's record of the job.
Daily inspection reports
Your inspector's day from a phone: weather, the contractor's force, the quantities measured against each pay item, and photos.
Pay recommendations
Each pay estimate against the contract, with what your inspector observed beside every claim. A contractor on Aggrado Job sends theirs straight to you.
RFIs, submittals and orders
The logs for the progress meeting, each answer and review on your letterhead, and directives that become change orders.
Funded projects
Certified payrolls reviewed by employee number with missing weeks found, labor interviews, and a Buy America register that holds pay items until the certification is in.
Punch lists and closeout
The substantial completion walk with photos, and the closeout package bound from the daily reports, tests, certifications and checklist.
What needs attention
Everything late or waiting across your projects on one list each morning, each record emailed from where it's kept, and only the engineer of record recommends, answers and issues.
Price the site the way it will be bid.
Engineering is on early access while it's built with the first firms. Ask for early access and we'll set your firm up, from opinions of cost through closeout.