Civil Engineering Software
One system for every job: estimating and tendering, plant and gang scheduling, subcontractor packages, site diaries and records, variations, applications for payment. You can see where every job stands, every day, from first tender to final account.
You win the job on rates. Then you deliver it in the ground, with gangs and plant spread across sites, weather eating the program and conditions the tender never mentioned.
Plan gangs and plant across all your live sites instead of one whiteboard per job. Hours and plant records flow back from the field daily, so plant and labor burn against estimate is something you check, not something you reconstruct at month end.
Hired plant, aggregates and subcontract packages hit the budget as committed cost the moment the order is raised. Hire periods are tracked through to off-hire, so a machine sitting idle shows up against the job while it is still on site.
Site diaries, photos and daily records are captured as the work happens. When conditions differ from the tender, the variation or claim is priced with the evidence already attached, and it carries into your application so you get paid for what you actually built.
Archdesk is built for civil engineering contractors delivering groundworks, roads and highways, drainage, earthworks, waterways and public infrastructure, whether you work direct for public and private clients or as a subcontractor to a main contractor. Estimators, project managers, site engineers and the commercial team work from the same records, so the estimate you won with becomes the budget you track against, the hours and plant your sites record land on the job the same day, and the work you measure on site becomes the application you get paid on.
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Plant hire, materials and subcontract orders land as committed cost against the budget lines they were priced on, so you know the position on every live job without waiting for month end.
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The estimate you won with becomes the budget you track against. Gangs, plant and program planned across your live sites.
Plant hire, aggregates, concrete and subcontract packages ordered as committed cost against the budget lines they were priced on.
Site diaries, hours, plant records and photos flow back from the field daily, landing against each job's budget lines.
Measured work and approved variations build the application month by month, substantiated by the daily record.
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 civil engineering contractors manage estimating and tendering, plant and gang scheduling, plant hire and materials procurement, subcontractor packages, site diaries and daily records, variations and claims, valuations and payment applications, and job costing in one connected platform. It covers groundworks, roads and highways, drainage, earthworks, waterways and public infrastructure work.
Yes. Foremen and site engineers record site diaries, allocation sheets, timesheets, plant records and photos from their phones. What they record lands against the project in real time, so the office sees hours, plant and progress without chasing paperwork at the end of the week.
Hours and plant records from site land against each project's budget lines daily. Plant and labor are a civils contractor's biggest costs, so you see burn against estimate for every live job, week by week, instead of finding out at the final account.
Hired plant hits the project budget as committed cost the moment the order is raised, and hire periods are tracked through to off-hire. A machine sitting idle or a hire running past its off-hire date shows up against the job while it is still on site, not on next month's invoice.
Yes. Subcontract packages are tendered, ordered and tracked in the same system as your own work. Subcontractor work reports, applications and retentions sit against the package budget, so you can see the position on every package without pulling it together from emails.
When conditions on site differ from the tender, the daily records are already there to substantiate it. Variations, compensation events and claims are captured, priced and pushed through approval with the site diaries, photos and records attached, and approved items carry into your application.
Yes. Applications for payment are built from your measured work and approved variations, and retention is tracked through to release. Everything you apply for is substantiated by the site record, which shortens the argument with the client's quantity surveyor.
Yes. Site forms, inspection records, health and safety checks and daily diaries are captured in the field and live against the project. The records you need for audits, claims and handover build as the job runs instead of being assembled after the fact.
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 scheduling and delivery on site, to the final account. Book a demo and see.
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