Stralos

The job you priced is the job you run.

Stralos connects estimating, programme, delivery, commercial and finance in one platform. Win the work and your estimate becomes the live project, carrying the same information from tender through to financial completion.

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For civil, earthworks and commercial building contractors in New Zealand.

Animated walkthrough of a stormwater trench being measured, priced, programmed, delivered and varied
  1. Measure the trench line off the drawing.
  2. Price the section from your own rates.
  3. Lay out the tender programme.
  4. Hand the PM the detail behind the price.
  5. Value the variation from the same rates.
Fig. 1 One work item, from the drawing to the variation.

Illustrative job. Quantities are calculated, rates are examples.

A 300 diameter stormwater main is measured as 240 metres off the drawing, priced layer by layer in a trench cross-section with its crew and plant priced from a production rate of 24 metres a day, and laid out in the tender programme. Once the job is won, the project manager starts with the production rates, cheapest materials, contract conditions and lead times behind the price. When rock is found, the variation is priced from the same rates and an extra-over rock activity in the library.

Most of what you need to run a project is already worked out while you price it.

The crew, production rates, quantities, materials, suppliers, subcontractors, programme assumptions and costs. Then the job is won, and much of that information gets rebuilt across programmes, budgets, procurement, delivery and commercial tracking, often by someone who wasn't involved when it was priced.

Stralos keeps that information connected. The estimate becomes the starting point for the live project, carrying the thinking behind the price into programme, delivery and commercial management. As the job changes, you can still see what was allowed, what's actually happening and where the numbers came from.

What Stralos does

Four stages of the same job, working from the same numbers.

  1. Estimate

    Price it the way it'll actually get built.

    • Measure lines, areas and counts on the drawings, linked to the items they price.
    • Import the client's schedule of quantities with their numbering locked, then write your rates back into their own Excel workbook.
    • Build up items from your rates library and construction activities: labour, plant, materials, subcontractors and disposal.
    • Trench, pit and volume calculators turn a dig into cubic metres, tonnes and disposal.
    • Upload or connect your tender documents and supplier quotes, so everything for the job is in one place.

  2. Programme

    Plan the job around what you priced.

    • Every work item has a line in the tender programme. Add phases and dependencies around it.
    • Split an item's quantity between crews, each with its own production rate.

  3. Deliver

    Turn up on site with the plan you tendered.

    • Start the delivery programme from a copy of the tender programme, with the critical path and an export to MS Project.
    • Stralos tells the PM what matters from the price: production rates, the cheapest materials, contract conditions and likely material lead times.

  4. Commercial

    Claim against what you won with. It's harder to argue with.

    • Marking a tender won sets the contract baseline.
    • Raise variations against the baseline, priced from your tendered rates, day rates or a new price, with records and evidence captured directly from site.
    • Link departures, allowances and assumptions to the specific items they cover, or to the project as a whole.
    • Manage your comms, including NTEs, NTCs, variations and claims schedules, with feedback and suggestions from Stralos.

Made for New Zealand contracts, not adapted to them.

Most construction software is built for someone else's contracts and translated for ours. Stralos started here, so the local detail is in from day one.

Your contract
NZS 3910, NZS 3915, Master Builders and the rest, or any contract you upload or connect. Set the contract basis per project, with your on-site overhead and your off-site overhead and profit.
Schedules of quantities
Client numbering stays fixed and quantities can be locked. Split a line into sub-items without losing where it came from.
Quarries and suppliers
Prices by supplier and location, price bands that change with quantity, and the closest quarries ranked by driving distance.

For the people who price and run the work

From a ten-person drainage outfit to a main contractor running several sites across a region or the country. Stralos stays simple on a small job and gives you the depth when the job needs it.

Built by contractors and software specialists.

Two of us run a civil construction business. Two bring years of experience building software for New Zealand and Australian businesses. Together, we're building Stralos to change how construction teams work: connecting estimating, project delivery, commercial management and finance in one platform.

Join early access

We're letting contractors in a few at a time, one workflow at a time, so we can do it properly. Tell us a bit about your business and we'll be in touch when there's a fit.

There's more on the way, and early-access contractors will help decide what gets built first, so bring opinions.

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