Wiring Takeoff for BMS and controls contractors
The number that drives the installation, taken from the plan.
Wiring drives everything in a controls installation: labor, material, schedule and margin. Yet it is usually scaled by hand on bid night and padded to be safe. Wiring Takeoff, one of the first apps in the new CUBE Marketplace, takes the wiring from the plan instead. Trace the runs, tie each one to the cable and conduit in your CUBE library, and send it straight to your estimate.
How it works
1. Trace the runs on the plan.
2. Tie each run to your materials. Every run is linked to the cable and conduit in your CUBE library.
3. Send it to your estimate. Length, material, labor and cost land in the same estimate.
What Wiring Take-off changes for your estimators
Wiring you can trust on bid night
The wiring in your estimate comes from the runs traced on the plan, not from a scale ruler and a safety margin.
One estimate, two ways in
Takeoff starts from the plan. Estimate shows the estimate the way CUBE keeps it: areas, systems, parts and labor. Both work on the same estimate, so there is no copy to keep in sync.
The whole job, area by area
Each area of the estimate has its own sheet and its own plan. The takeoff tree groups every system by type with its units, and selecting a system in the tree selects it on the plan too.
RFIs captured right on the plan
Right-click any spot on the plan to add a system, a symbol or an RFI, right where the issue shows up.
Easy to learn from the first day
Tour walks you through each part of the screen, and Explain puts a “?” on everything in view, so a new estimator can find their way without asking around.
See it on one of your current jobs
We will walk your team through Wiring Takeoff using one of your own plans.