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Industrial Solution When Schedules, Resources and Costs Need to Remain In-Sync

Managing changing targets as well as available certified labor, planning outages, visibility into assumptions and detailed craft man hours is simplified with Hard Dollar Industrial estimating software. Eliminate the redundancy and errors of rekeying data from CAD designs to estimates to scheduling systems, reducing labor and turn-around times between process by more than 3 times, while increasing customer responsiveness, ultimately leading to additional projects and revenue.

Fast Changes with Labor Accuracy

An integrated Project Cost Management system provides industrial facilities the flexibility to easily respond to changing schedules. The historical labor production and man-hour database that the Hard Dollar system creates provides a highly accurate basis for determining production based costs and schedules to meet timelines.

Real-Time Scheduling Changes

Hard Dollar provides the industry’s most advanced bi-directional, real-time integration with scheduling systems from Primavera® and Microsoft® Project. This tight integration provides the ultimate flexibility to plan and meet mandated cash schedules. Detailed historical crew and labor production databases make planning work and resources to fit within scheduled plant down times a simple process.

Leverage Third-Party, Historic Productivity and Cost Data

The Hard Dollar Project Cost Management solution provides access to third-party piping and process reference libraries from Richardson, RSMeans or any other provider providing faster and more accurate estimates. The system also utilizes timesheet and field data collection for gathering and tracking productivity, installed equipment and materials to build a historical database of proprietary intellectual property.

Document Change Order

Managing change orders and providing a detailed historical basis and accurate tracking capabilities are integrated into the project controls capabilities of the system. Accurate and detailed tracking with cost basis references provides transparency into change orders eliminating dispute resolution and improving revenues and collections.

5D-BIM Server Power

Extensive Building Information Model (BIM) integration streamlines data management and handling from owner designs to ERP systems providing unprecedented labor savings, faster estimating turnarounds and easy to use flexible reporting.

 

What Our Clients Say

"It’s a pleasure working with Robert. He's very patient, knowledgeable and goes far beyond to help with any issues we have as a company or as an individual."

HL Contractors

"The level of service CDP provides is exceptional and always far exceeded my expectations. You can quote me on that!"

The Wesson Group LLC

"Kristen is a very valuable resource for us!"

LCI-Lineberger Construction Inc.

"Greg is terrific, and I’m so excited to have a better resource! I have him working on several projects now with many more to come."

Progressive Plumbing

"Michael and Matthew have exceeded my needs and expectations. I get help same day 95% of the time, which is very important in my business at times. They are professional and courteous 100% of the time. Zero complaints."

Mitchell Brothers

"We appreciate Tim and all of his excellent support."

M.J. (Manufacturing Firm)

"Beth is absolutely wonderful to work with! I appreciate her patience and professionalism. It’s a relief to know I can count on her to respond and be a life line for us as we continue to learn the system. She is truly top notch."

Eastbound Mechanical

"He did a great job online and an equally great job in person. We’re enjoying working with our new Spectrum Viewpoint accounting software."

Chambliss & Rabil Contractors, Inc.

"I want to let you know how grateful we are for Robert Pacheco’s assistance. He was able to meet with me and discuss the issue promptly and complete the fix within a short amount of time. He is surely an asset, and we are thankful to have such a great resource."

Marques General Engineering, Inc.

"I wanted to let you know Dan did a great job. He has a vast amount of knowledge, and I feel very fortunate to be working with him."

H.F. (Mechanical Contractor)

"Thank you for your assistance/responsiveness to assist us in getting P6 back online so quickly today. We appreciate all the support you provide."

M.J. (Manufacturing Firm)