Within our many product offerings for the built environment, we feel one particular piece of software stands out as being common to contractors, developers and consultants alike.
Causeway CADMeasure is a software measurement solution that helps users view, take off, quantify and compare revisions in 2D & 3D CAD drawings, to ultimately provide schedules, costs and estimates with the generated information.
If the requirement is to purely measure rather than design, the solution allows companies to achieve this without going to the expense of a full CAD program. In fact, we have seen instances where companies have saved 40% of time in the measurement process by using CADMeasure!
“By introducing CADMeasure into our business, we quickly realised massive savings in time saved from previously measuring manually from hardcopy drawings. We are saving in the region 40% of time in the measurement process” – Mark Grogan, Manager Contracts and Quantity Surveying at KEO.
Project managers and design and engineering consultants, KEO International Consultants, use CADMeasure to help produce measurements through the design process for estimates and the Bills of Quantities (BoQs) for tenders for their clients. With offices in Kuwait and the UAE, KEO are just one our customers across the Middle East.
ALEC (part of Abu Dhabi’s Al Jaber Group) are also using CADMeasure to support their tendering process. As they receive BoQs, specifications and drawings from consultants and clients, CADMeasure is used to check and verify those quantities provided before submitting bids.
“In contracts where quantities are the contractor’s responsibility, the program provided by Causeway has proven to be invaluable in helping reduce risks in our bids.” – Denzil Greer, Chief Estimator with ALEC.
A more recent adopter of our software, the Dubai-based Habtoor Leighton Group, had a requirement to use the software for both pre-contract and post contract work. Garry Presdee, Group Commercial Manager explains:
“We have now moved away from non-specific measurement tools to something that is absolutely ‘fit for purpose’. This has the added benefit of allowing us to reallocate QS resource from measurement activities to revenue creation / cost management activities – both ‘key margin drivers’ for the business.”
Although CADMeasure can be deployed as a standalone program, it also forms part of an overall business solution with integration directly into other products. These include Causeway’s Estimating software for contractors and CATO – Cost Planning / BoQ production software for consultants, where dimensions and quantities are fed directly into these applications.
Liberating information from BIMs
Causeway is now bringing 3D models into the measurement process and can already provide their customers with the necessary tools to work with intelligent models as part of a Building Information Modelling (BIM) process.
Developed with major construction consultants, Causeway BIMMeasure liberates the information from BIMs, so it can be used interactively and effectively throughout the cost management and control life cycle – without the need for specialist CAD skills.
This is an exciting step forward into the world of BIM. Early indications are that further time savings in the production of measurements will be achieved over and above those realised with CADMeasure.
CADMeasure enables Consultants, Cost Managers, Estimators and QS teams to:
- Save time in the measurement process
- Measure from 2D or 3D drawings
- Read most file formats, including DWG, DWF, image files and PDF
- Output to Excel, pre-defined Excel templates or other Causeway programs
- Take off measurements from 3D Models using BIMMeasure
- Dynamically capture costs quickly and reliably
