" I believe that CostX is an innovative product which meets the needs of the Cost Planner and Estimator. I am impressed with the user-friendly interface and its capability in handling the costing tasks of all project stages. "
Chris Wong, Estimating Manager - Walton Construction Pty Ltd
Walton Construction delivers a wide range of construction services with particular expertise in commercial, retail, health, aged-care and education projects. The company’s expertise, underpinned by the extensive experience of senior staff across all industry sectors, not only covers design-stage planning advice as well as commercial construction and interior fitout, but also post-construction maintenance and refurbishment. This expertise allows them to develop innovative construction approaches in regards to difficult sites and site access, and efficiently deal with operational (occupied) or greenfield sites.
Making the Change
Today’s business environment is more and more reliant on the efficiency and effectiveness of project costing. To maintain our competitiveness, we re-evaluated our estimating system and sought software with the following criteria:
- Ability to increase team productivity
- Ability to increase the level of accuracy
- Suits costing on all stages of a project
- Facilitates tasks-tracking and cost review
- Achieves the above in terms of measurement, costing and analysis as well as reporting
- Designed with the latest technology available (eg. costing with 3D modelling)
- User-friendly and does not require a steep learning curve
The Outcome
We moved to CostX as we found it easily meets all of the above requirements. It helps in increasing both efficiency and effectiveness of our estimating team. All complete estimating tasks are now saved in one place with CostX. The flexible display options of the Dimension View in CostX has not only facilitated the review process, but also become an effective communication tool between our estimators and other professionals of a non-estimating background.
