Software for Cladding & Facade Contractors
One system for every job: estimating and bidding, gang scheduling and timesheets, made-to-order panel procurement, QA records, variations, applications for payment. You can see where every job stands, every day, from first bid to final account.
You win the job on price. Then you deliver it with gangs at height, panels fabricated months ahead and a detail that never stops moving.
Plan gangs and access across all your live jobs instead of one whiteboard per site. Installed areas, hours and site records flow back from the field daily, so progress against program is something you check, not something you chase.
Panels, rails and brackets are fabricated to order on long lead times. Every PO hits the budget as committed cost the moment it is raised, and deliveries sit on the elevations they gate, so a slipping fabrication date shows up early, not on site.
QA inspections, fire barrier records and photo evidence are captured from the field as each elevation completes. The as-built documentation your client will ask for at handover builds as you install, with every record against the project.
Archdesk is built for cladding and facade contractors delivering rainscreen, curtain walling, industrial envelope and facade remediation work, whether you work direct for clients or as a subcontractor to a main contractor. Estimators, project managers, site supervisors and the commercial team work from the same records, so the estimate you won with becomes the budget you track against, every made-to-order panel lands on the job as committed cost, and the work you record on site becomes the application you get paid on.
Delivering other packages alongside cladding? Archdesk also serves:
Most of a facade package is committed months before it is installed. Budget, orders and forecast final cost sit in one view, so you know where the job is heading while the panels are still being made.
The bid built from real cost data on jobs like this one, with the exclusions and assumptions on the record.
The estimate you won with becomes the budget you track against. Gangs, access and program planned across your live jobs.
Approvals tracked, panels and rails ordered as committed cost, fabrication and deliveries tracked against the elevations they gate.
Hours, installed areas and site records flow back from the field daily, landing against each job's budget lines.
Installation records, inspections and photo evidence captured as elevations complete, building the handover pack as you go.
Applications built from substantiated records, retention tracked to release, and the margin already known.
What you priced is what you track. The winning estimate becomes the budget, actuals land against it line by line, and what jobs really cost feeds the next bid.
Explore Job Costing
The schedule connected to what it depends on: long-lead deliveries on the tasks they gate, crews planned across every live job, slippage shown with its cost.
Explore Scheduling
Buy-out without the gaps: RFQs from your BOQ lines, bids back comparable, exclusions visible before award. Then every PO and subcontract lands on the budget the moment it's raised.
Explore Procurement
Committed at the PO, earned as work is delivered, invoiced months later. See all three stages against every budget line, so variance is a decision you make, not a number you explain.
Explore Cost Controlling
Certify subcontractor valuations down, build client applications up, from the same records. Invoices, payment notices and retention on statutory time, with the audit trail attached.
Explore Financials
The schedule, the progress and the money in one system. When a task slips you see what it costs, and when scope changes you see what it does to the schedule. 'On track' means the Gantt chart and the bank account.
Explore Project Management
Nobody builds from a superseded drawing. Revision control, approvals and distribution with proof of who received what, when. The record that wins the dispute instead of losing it.
Explore Document Management
Every project's position, live, from the data that ran the work. Cost, schedule and cash agree with each other because they're the same records. There's nothing to assemble and nothing to reconcile.
Explore Live Data
Construction Volume
£10M
Average Administrative Cost
£500k
From small residential jobs to the world's largest infrastructure projects
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Archdesk helps cladding and facade contractors manage estimating and bidding, gang scheduling and timesheets, made-to-order panel procurement, drawings and site records, QA documentation, variations, payment applications, and job costing in one connected platform.
Yes. Archdesk is built for mid-size and large contractors delivering rainscreen cladding, curtain walling, industrial roofing and building envelope packages, and facade remediation work, whether you work direct for clients or as a subcontractor to a main contractor.
Purchase orders for panels, rails, brackets and glazed units hit the project budget as committed cost the moment they are raised. Deliveries are tracked against the elevations they gate, so a slipping fabrication date shows up in the program months early, not when the gang is stood on site waiting.
Yes. Supervisors and installers record timesheets, complete site forms, log installed areas and capture QA records with photos from their phones. What they record lands against the project in real time, so the office sees progress without chasing paperwork at the end of the week.
Yes. Site forms capture installation records, inspections and photo evidence as each elevation completes, and every record lives against the project. The as-built evidence you need at handover builds as you install instead of being reconstructed afterwards.
Timesheets from site land against each project's budget lines daily, so you see labor burn against estimate for every live job, week by week, instead of finding out at the final account.
Yes. Design changes and site instructions are captured, priced and pushed through approval with the record attached. Approved variations carry into your payment application, so unpriced work stops leaking margin.
Yes. Fabrication and installation drawings are revision controlled, with approvals and distribution tracked, so site teams always install from the current revision and the document trail is there when a detail gets questioned later.
Yes. Applications for payment are built from the same records as your measured work and approved variations, and retention is tracked through to release. Everything you apply for is substantiated, which shortens the argument with the main contractor's QS.
Yes. Archdesk integrates with Xero (as a certified partner), Sage, QuickBooks and other accounting systems, so invoices, payments and costs flow between commercial and finance teams without re-keying.
In the demo we walk you through a fully worked project in Archdesk, from the first estimate, through fabrication and installation, to the final account. Book a demo and see.
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