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A section that shows me what jobs I have already printed from the site.
As I don't quote the jobs but just print them off for someone else, it's hard to see what jobs I have already printed.
1 voteWe understand the benefit of marking projects as printed. It is easier said than done and finding use cases for it is quite difficult.
To get around this, we suggest leaving a note on each project that you print. Something along the lines of “Printed project for Tony” will make it easy for you to follow, and you can use the “notes” indicator on the noticeboard as a reminder of the project already being printed.
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Guarantee payments
Every developer / owner/financier should have to put monies for project build into a fund and each sub-contracts claims of developer/financier rather than rely on the builder to pay your pc claim. Builder does the same so we do not have a Tagara / Warburton scenario where they fail to pay sub-contracts despite being paid by the developer owner/ finacer
7 votesThanks for your suggestion and for putting your support behind this idea, we appreciate you taking the time to do this. Unfortunately no aspect of our business currently deals with owners or financiers, and as such it will be very difficult for us to provide that information to you. Cheers, Gilad
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Change type colour of projects with my trade in active and recent tenders
When a project with my trade is highlighted in bold blue, it can be difficult on some screens to identify the difference between those that do not contain my trade. Could you change the colour from bold blue to bold green, or red, or something of higher contrast.
1 voteWe understand the frustration with not being able to easily identify the bolded texts. In the majority of cases, this isn’t an issue but we are aware of it on certain displays with specific settings.
At this stage we don’t intend on changing the way matched projects are displayed. Our suggestion is to turn up the contract settings on your display. Apologies for the inconvenience!
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3 votes
We understand the importance of having more specific trades on the tender form, but adding every trade would create a very long list that would become cumbersome for everyone involved.
To narrow down on particular items we suggest using the “search within documents” feature that will let you search all documents uploaded to EstimateOne based on keywords. That includes “mobile patrols”, “CCTV”, or similar.
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Show distances from projects as the distance required to travel to that site by road.
Considering that nearly all travel to & from construction sites is undertaken by road I think it would be the most suitable method for calculating distance.
2 votesWe can understand the frustration. It would not be an easy task to put this on every project as there are often multiple ways to get to a single location. Our suggestion would be to always copy-paste the address into Google Maps for the most up to date suggestions.
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Add Trades for Building Services Consultants
Make more trades available on the signup form such as; Asbestos Surveyors, OHS Consultants, Dilapidation Assessors etc.
6 votesHi Philip,
We understand and appreciate that your specific trade isn’t available to select and that this may cause some frustration. At this stage we do not plan to add further trades as the list would become long and difficult to navigate.
To find projects relevant to you, we suggest you use Specification Search to look for “asbestos" or “dilapidation”, which will search all documents uploaded to EstimateOne for you.
We hope that helps, and happy searching. -
Make available trades more specific.
Please allow me to select shower screens, mirrors and splashbacks as my preferred trades as 'Glaziers' is too broad.
Please allow me to select Wardrobes as my trade because the trade 'Joinery' is too broad.
12 votesWe understand and appreciate that your specific trade isn’t available to select and that this may cause some frustration. At this stage we do not plan to add further trades as the list would become long and difficult to navigate.
The best way to find projects relevant to you is to use our Specification Search to look for “shower screens” or “splashback” or any particular brand name, which will search all documents uploaded to EstimateOne for you.
We hope that helps, and happy searching. -
Please add Temporary Fencing as a trade
Most job sites will require Temporary Fencing for site security whilst demolition and construction takes place. Can we have a trade added for this?
3 votesHi Ken,
We understand and appreciate that your specific trade isn’t available to select and that this may cause some frustration. At this stage we do not plan to add further trades as the list would become long and difficult to navigate. Temp fencing is not often provided in any of the drawings and is up to the builders discretion on how to price and provide it. Our suggestion is to review the “demolition” trade package for site measurements and price to the builder accordingly.
We hope that helps, and happy searching. -
Builder's must nominate all trades being priced as Provisional Sums
We often find our trade is marked as required, but no package is available for download. We usually have to ring the estimators only to find our trade is being quoted as a provisional sum. We find this is a waste of the Builders and our time, and could be avoided if all Provisional Sums were displayed to us before we download any packages.
4 votesWe understand the frustration this causes. Unfortunately this falls into a circumstance where more often than not the builder isn’t aware an item is a provisional sum until later on in the tender process, when they conduct a thorough review of the tender.
To speed up the process, we would suggest using the doc previewer to check the schedules and specifications yourself. It’s not ideal, but the best we can do right now.
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Add Traffic Control as a trade
Traffic Control should also be added to the list of default trades. This will allow us to target projects requiring traffic control works.
1 voteWe understand and appreciate that your specific trade isn’t available to select and that this may cause some frustration. At this stage we do not plan to add further trades as the list would become long and difficult to navigate.
The best way to find projects relevant to you is to use our Specification Search to look for “traffic control” or any particular keyword, which will search all documents uploaded to EstimateOne for you.
We hope that helps, and happy searching. -
Add a trade for Dewatering
We would like to see dewatering on the list of trades since it is a trade quite commonly required in many construction and commercial projects.
1 voteWe understand and appreciate that your specific trade isn’t available to select and that this may cause some frustration. At this stage we do not plan to add further trades as the list would become long and difficult to navigate.
The best way to find projects relevant to you is to use our Specification Search. Try typing in “dewatering” which will search all documents uploaded to EstimateOne for you.
We hope that helps, and happy searching.
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