(Downloads in this section include construction contractor software freeware, shareware, trial versions and demos. They are provided free of charge on a strict 'as-is' basis. By downloading you agree to assume all responsibilities. Construction Banner Exchange makes no warranties, express or implied, as to the suitability or fitness of any file for any particular purpose.)
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The BestCut integrated software was designed for use in the manufacture of furniture. It helps reduce the monotonous day-to-day operations involved in the cutting of sheet materials and calculating the cost of materials and manufacture. Powerful sheet layout optimization, board-feet calculations, and cost estimating for your woodworking projects.
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BizPlan software will help you with your planning. It includes interactive templates for your Business Plan, Cash Flow Forecast and Profit and Loss Forecast. It also includes an interactive Break-even Point Calculator. Help notes are provided throughout the software to provide guidance on completing the templates.
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Quick and easy way to ballpark the cost of a house, block of frame with detailed line item cost breakouts. Just input the square footage of the structure and the average cost per square foot for your area. Can be customized.
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Builds anywhere from 1 to 100 panels per door in 25 quanity lots. Builds multi panel doors up to 100 panels per door, vertical or horizontal panels from 1 to 10 panels per door. Calculates required wood needed for the project, or job and, pricing of materials, figures in waste and accepts customer information. The program will do door sizes or opening sizes. Create doors for houses, or even paneled walls, not just cabinet doors.
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Easy Time Tracking PRO is a powerful, yet extremely easy-to-use time & expense tracking and customer billing application. It is an ideal solution for those individual contractors and companies who need to know readily how much time is spent on their tasks and how many hours they need to bill their clients for, as well as track expenses they incur. Your business needs Easy Time Tracking PRO if it is essential that you track your employees' or contractors' time, as well as expenses being incurred, to make sure your projects are profitable enough. The software allows for both manual and automatic time logging. The built-in timer can be shown in a separate window. The description of a task being timed can be modified even if the program window is minimized. Database backup and restore. People who will benefit greatly from using Easy Time Tracking PRO include: Software Developers, Web Designers, IT Contractors, Engineers, Accountants, Lawyers, Construction Workers, QA Specialists, Financial Advisors, Writers, Technical Support Specialists, and many others.
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EstiMan is an Estimate Manager. A simple and straight forward approach to computer aided estimating for the construction industry. Connectivity to MS Word and Excel - Customizable Estimate Templates - Estimate Expire Reminder Feature - Multiple user accounts 10 day free trial software.
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Plan and manage periodic tasks like facilities maintenance, computer/ IT maintenance, equipment maintenance, fleet maintenance, service calls, reporting and so on. Estimate and track costs and inventory usage. Use FastMaint maintenance management software to plan and manage periodic tasks like facilities maintenance, equipment maintenance, car maintenance, service calls, organizing meetings, reporting activities and so on. Estimate costs, track inventory usage and when to reorder parts. Define global or individual working calendars with days off and holidays. Create planning reports that show people's availability, specifies parts needed, equipment used and estimated costs.
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Fast Plan is an advanced CAD programme that uses many automated drawing functions, including the new design rooms functions. Put some rooms on screen, move them around, rotate, expand, shrink until satisfied then just mark inside corners of external walls. You can automatically draw complete rooms with dimensions and text, up to three stories, and electrical plans. Display and print with cross hatched or solid walls with options on showing dimensions and scales.
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FrameMaster is a FEM-program(Finite Element Method) that helps you dimension almost any kind of construction: roof-trusses, floors, walls, bridges, furniture, shafts and much much more. Avoid over dimensioning, instead model your construction in FrameMaster and the program will tell you if the construction is strong enough or not.
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Pop-up framing calculator for Windows. The foot-inch module adds and subtracts feet and inches and converts to decimal feet and metric measurements. There's also a neat stair calculator for figuring out stair treads and risers. There's a typical stringer layout where you can adjust floor to floor height, number of risers, riser height, or tread width. Cutting layout and all dimensions based on board width are shown.
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HVAC-Calc Residential 4.0, a computer program to calculate the size of furnace and air conditioner needed in residential buildings. Based on industry standards, HVAC-Calc Residential 4.0 is the easiest to use heat loss and heat gain calculation programs available. A feature of this programs is easy sharing of jobs between the laptop computer, office computer and home computer.
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Recommended for QuickBooks Pro! Job Cost Wizard v. 2.0 is a report generator for National Estimator. Job Cost Wizard converts National Estimator estimates into IIF format so they can be imported directly into QuickBooks. Once an estimate is accepted and the project starts, Job Cost Wizard transfers the estimate to QuickBooks Pro or Premier, automatically updating billing, statements and job-cost tracking. Job Cost Wizard also automatically creates item list accounts, eliminating typing errors and saving clerical time.
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A contact management type of software that features a calendar, customizable help screens and message center and can also manage leads and contacts.
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With the software Mosaic 2000, you can build-Mosaics from numerical images. It prints the tile laying plan for the building of the mosaic. You can use square, round, hexagonal, triangle or scale tiles. You can create-Mosaics for bathroom, table-top, swimming pools, fountains, jacuzzi, gardens. An e-Mosaic can be created tile by tile, or from an existing image. A computer image is made of pixels of different colors. In the same way, a mosaic is made of tiles of different colors. However e-Mosaics have a lower resolution (spatial resolution or number of colors) than most of the existing computer images. In order to diminish these two kinds of resolutions, image processing functions are available. The Fusion processing diminish the spatial resolution of an image. In a computer image, pixels may have a lot of colors, but the tiles for a given manufacturer have a palette from 20 to 50 colors. The color reduction processing diminish the number of colors of the image. Half-stone tilescan be created. A mosaic of a text can be realized easily. Non rectangular mosaics (like mirrors or grounds) can be constructed. You can also make color blendings of tiles
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National Estimator TNE-32 includes some very cool features: - Drag and drop editing - Long file names - Interactive help - Right-click edit menu - Select all - Print the costbook. This download of The National Estimator 32 is big, about 7 MB of free software data. Also included with the download is Steel-Frame Cost Data, 37 pages of labor and material cost estimates for residential steel framing.
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Cutting optimize software - easy and quick ! Optimik allowes you to automatically make the optimal cutting plans for panel/sheet materials in following manufacturing areas : furniture, metal working, glass cutting, textile cutting, etc. Optimik will do this automatically, saving your time and money.
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Critical Path Project Management planning tool. Inexpensive alternative to MS Project. Shows all project data in a spreadsheet pattern for ease of understanding. Independent re-sizeable and hideable windows show PERT views and Gantt (bar chart) views of the project in addition to the spreadsheet view. Pop up "working day" calendar with 200 year range. Reports, PERT charts and Gantt charts may be either printed or copied to the clipboard.
When in need of accurate planning for large projects with lots of features, deadlines and such, you can revert to PlanBee project management planning tool. It allows you to specify tasks and their durations, and will then calculate the earliest and latest start and finish dates for each task, based on dependency links which you give it. It will calculate "Float", the amount of spare time that a given task has in the schedule as an indication of how important that task is to the overall timing of the project. The results are made available to you in several forms, either for printing or for incorporation in other documents or programs. Pluses: PlanBee project management planning tool is a inexpensive alternative to MS Project. Easy to use, it shows all project data in a explicit manner, using a spreadsheet pattern for ease of understanding. In conclusion: Useful and cheap, PlanBee project management planning tool meets the standards required for a good and reliable project organize.
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PMaint allows you to record exactly what work needs to be done, how the work should be performed, how frequently and at what times. Printing detailed work orders allows you to delegate with the specific instructions to staff. PMaint will also allow you to keep track of completion status. Keep track of who performed the work, who inspected the work, and how much time was required. The information you enter may be easily viewed on the screen, or printed through a variety of reports. A custom reporting option is also included, making it easy to create reports containing just the info you want.
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The program provides comprehensive heating & cooling load analysis with detailed breakdowns of specified conditions and computed results of heat gains and losses. Automatically calculates room round duct sizes plus room supply & newly added room return grille sizes including C.F.M.'s per grill, multiple returns for both room & central returns. Automatically calculates seasonal cooling operating costs based on any S.E.E.R., system size, hours of operation or utility rate you enter. Automatically highlights and compares seasonal heating operating costs between natural gas, electric strip heat, L.P. gas, fuel oil and heat pumps, all at the same time allowing for different efficiencies, costs & fuel energy content on each type. Inputs basic equipment information, costs & provides a simple payback your average customer can understand, based on the difference in cost & operational savings.
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A roof estimating program. Computes area and est details. It has a pricing database and customizable contract and proposal templates. It outputs roof and est details, proposal and contract. Straight forward to use.
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Absolutely the best and easiest to use tools for the steel construction industry. The feet and inches calculator accepts all commonly used types of feet and inches input. The simple interface makes it extremely easy to use. The toolbox inculdes a stair solver, triangle solver, circle solver, and a steel shapes viewer. The Resource Browser is a web browser with built in links to many valuable resources for the steel construction industry. The calculator can be closed to your system tray so it is always at your fingerips and ready to use. The units that can be shown are: Feet and Inches, Decimal Inches, Decimal Feet, and Millimeters. This feet and inches calculator has the ability to run in compact mode and accepts all input (including the feet and inches designators) from the numpad which make it extremely easy to use.
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VirtualBoss is a easy to use job scheduling and task-management software solution for Home Builders, Contractors, Developers, Remodelers, and Real-Estate Property Managers.
(Downloads in this section include construction contractor software freeware, shareware, trial versions and demos. They are provided free of charge on a strict 'as-is' basis. By downloading you agree to assume all responsibilities. Construction Banner Exchange makes no warranties, express or implied, as to the suitability or fitness of any file for any particular purpose.)
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