The spec and the drawings contradict each other
Material, colour or thickness differs between the article and the sheet. Whoever prices the wrong one carries the difference.
Found after the contract is signed.
Why Modou
Measuring square metres is not the hard part. Everything beyond them is.
A takeoff measures. Modou works out what to buy. The hours and the mistakes sit in documents that disagree and in what the drawing leaves out. That is what Modou reads for, all the way to the materials you order.
Check one project free. No card needed.
The old way
Where a calculation goes wrong today.
Three places the hours and the mistakes hide, and why a takeoff does not catch them.
The hours and the mistakes are in what is not drawn
Subframe, flashings, corner pieces, fixings, finishing. A takeoff counts square metres. Nobody counts these until the site does.
The square metres were never the hard part.
A hundred open quotes fall behind
A new drawing revision, a price change, a question from the client. Each one reopens a quote, and a day a week goes to revisions.
Revised by hand, every time.
Next to your other software
What Modou does differently from the programs you already know.
Each of these programs does its own part of the work well. Modou does the part in between: reading the project documents and working out what to include.
Solibri
Model checking
- Why it exists
- To check a building model before anything is built.
- What it does
- Tests an IFC model against rules: clashes, missing data and regulations. It works on the model.
Bluebeam Revu
Marking up and measuring drawings
- Why it exists
- To view, mark up and review PDF drawings together.
- What it does
- You measure and count on the drawing yourself and add comments to it.
Vakware
Estimating and business administration
- Why it exists
- To run a building company: estimating, purchasing, planning and invoicing.
- What it does
- This is where you price the work and keep the project administration. You enter the quantities or import them.
Modou
Reading project documents
- Why it exists
- To know what is in a tender package before you price it.
- What it does
- Reads the specification, the drawings and the IFC model together and works out the quantities, with the source for every figure.
- What Modou does differently
- It marks where the documents contradict each other, works out the items nobody draws and turns them into an order list. You do the pricing in your own package.
You stay in charge
It reads everything. You decide everything.
Modou reads the whole tender package and works out the quantities and the materials to order. Every assumption waits for your approval, and it never sends a quote or a question on your behalf.
- 01Assumptions wait for you
Batten centres, an allowance per opening, screws per crossing. Every assumption waits for your approval, and each line that depends on one stays provisional until you give it.
- 02Everything on record
Every quantity and every requirement points to its document, page and revision.
- 03Your rules, your reasons
Every confirmation, correction and exclusion is kept with your reason, so colleagues can see why. Your own calculation rules apply to every new project.
Needs review
De Werf façade
Conflict between documents
De Werf façade: panel colour differs between spec and drawing 04
Spec article 31.21.10-a says RAL 7016, drawing 04 rev C says RAL 9007.
RAL 7016Spec article 31.21.10-aRAL 9007Drawing 04 rev C
Question for the architect, noted for you
Hi Mark, the spec and drawing 04 rev C give different colours for the façade panels. Which one leads?
Approved and noted. You send the question to Mark yourself. The panel colour stays open until he answers.
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