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The Valesco application is just one of the Crest Construction Software products available to the Construction and Civil Engineering Industries.

Valesco is designed to enable you to work from an imported Bill of Quantities or from a manually created Bill of Quantities using drawings and specification.

Our construction estimating software is multi functional and by way of a common data file format allows a seamless transition from estimating to valuation status. Our construction estimating software has been written specifically for the Windows environment and incorporates all the facilities you would expect to find in modern Windows software plus a great deal that you would not.

The 32bit Windows environment allows the user to make full use of functions such as copying and pasting items between concurrently loaded projects. In such cases all measurement, pricing/resource and cost group data will be transferred with the item allowing rapid production of estimates for similar contracts.

The ability to utilise resource databases and rate databases of your choice and to customise the resource file, leads to greater flexibility and has helped Valesco to become a proven Construction Estimating Software package in both the Building and Civil Engineering environment.

Valesco can be used as a stand-alone Construction Estimating system or, alternatively, can be used in conjunction with, for example, MS SQL server to offer a multi-user facility to larger sites and offices. This allows multiple users to access (subject to security settings) a common estimate data file and share the workload.

  • Tree View allows simple navigation of the BoQ document
  • Grid View enables the Estimator to work in a virtual spreadsheet if preferred
  • Price build-ups from customisable resources or rates database of your choice
  • Subcontract enquiries/comparisons produced within the software package
  • User-defined filters for speedy navigation and global editing of the BoQ
  • Multi-user capability
  • Data transfer to Excel, Word etc via MS Windows clipboard
  • Unlimited number of user-definable reports
  • Export to post-contract or planning software
 

Valesco By Crest Software

Product Features
  Reduce Installation & Training Costs
  Bill of Quantities Data Entry
  Bill of Quantities Navigation/Editing
  Resources/Sets
  Cost Estimating
  Sub-Contractors
  Suppliers
  Mark-up
  Reporting
  Link to CS Project Professional Scheduling & planning software
  System Requirements
 
Estimating Software Applications for the Construction Industry
 
Reduce Installation & Training Costs
32 bit MS Windows operation, for Windows 95, 98, 2000, and NT
Flat files or client to Access, SQL Server or Oracle with built in OleDB
Protect confidentiality by controlling access to specified data
Adapt to different contracts with your own Text, Date and Numeric User Fields
Customise with user defined cost structure, calculations/formula
Easy interface to other software by ODBC, Clipboard or ASCII file
 
Bill of Quantities Data Entry
Scan the BoQ document retaining the original page layout
Speed up BoQ entry by importation from a spreadsheet or CITE
Cut/Copy/Paste Bills, Pages, Items, Resources project to project
Grid view for keyboard entry or Copy/Paste from other software
Create Bills from your own or an industry library
Automatic Cost coding from the library
 
   
BoQ Navigation/Editing
Customise the dialogue boxes for increased usability
Navigate large Bills using the Windows compliant tree structure
Create Tags to collect/step through similarly Tagged records
Create filters for navigation, summarisation, viewing or reporting
Edit consistently and rapidly using Bulk Field Change
Store Estimating calculations/methods with spreadsheet per item
Remember topical matters by using the Item Notepad
 
   
Resources/Sets
Define Cost Types (Labour, Plant etc) for Resources and Costs
Optionally specify complex Resources to allow for fuel, transport etc
Import by scanning or from a Spreadsheet
Define "Sets" containing Resources and/or other Sets
Copy a priced item into the Resource library for re-use as a Set
Create Filters for navigation, summarisation, viewing or reporting
 
   
Cost Estimating
By resources, net rates (Labour, Plant, Material etc) or both
Rapid assignment of resources/sets using the Windows compliant tree
Simulate a start-up cost with a "Fixed" Resource assignment
Assign Resources to a single or many items in a single operation
10 user defined multiplication/division factors for pricing calculations
Define your own resource assignment view with user defined columns
Re-arrange resource assignments in a logical order
Track by Item and optionally replace, individual resources
Quantifiable Sub Items for BoQ item rates build up
 
Sub-Contractors
Specify excluded costs for Sub-Contractors
Assign one or more Sub-Contractor to selected BoQ Items
Distribute printed or electronic enquiry documents
Instant sub-contractors rate entry by pasting to the Grid
Sub-contractor comparison can highlight Sub-Contractors mark-up bias
 
   
Suppliers
Print Resource usage and export to a spreadsheet for the enquiry documentation
Copy and Paste returned spreadsheet data into the Resource file for comparisons
Use the flexible report procedures to compare Supplier bids
 
Mark-up
Specify project mark-up with front loading, offsetting of risk with margin etc
Set mark-up by margin, % or rate for individual items
Fix the Tender Amount by setting Total Mark-up, Mark-up by % or Tender Amount
 
Reporting
Define, save and password protect any number of reports
BoQ or Resource based with optional rates build up for each item
User Defined Variables to customise analysis calculations
Export to the Clipboard, text files or any database
Analysis using Sorts with summarisation by Sort Key
Wastage as Resource and/or operation specific
Unbalancing effects with Expected, Best and Worst case Quantities
 
Link to CS Project Professional Scheduling software
Export, fragment, re-arrange and summarise Bill Items into activities
Link, resource level, and immediately view the Bar Chart
View imported Resources and Resource assignments with their durations
View/print Cash Flow, Resource Usage, 'S' Curve, Resource Cross Tab etc.
Durations from Expected, Best and Worst case quantities for Risk Analysis
 
System Requirements
IBM compatible PC running MS Windows 95/98, or Windows NT/2000
Minimum 64 MB of RAM recommended
Hard disk with approximately 10MB free disk space
Can be installed on workstations or network servers
Any printer or plotter supported by MS Windows
 
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