Software for Structural Steel Contractors
One system for every job: estimating and bidding, fabrication and erection scheduling, steel procurement, drawing control, 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 the design keeps developing, steel prices move under your buy list and the crane costs money every hour it stands.
The shop and the site sit in one schedule across all your live jobs. Deliveries are tracked against the phases they gate, so a slipping fabrication date shows up in the erection program early, not when the crane is stood waiting for steel.
Sections, plate, fixings and subcontracted fabrication hit the budget as committed cost the moment the PO is raised. Every order sits against the line it was estimated on, so you see the gap between the price you allowed and the price you paid as it opens.
When connections get heavier or section sizes change, the change is captured, priced and approved as a variation before the steel is fabricated. It carries straight into your application, so design development stops being margin you give away.
Archdesk is built for structural steel contractors delivering structural frames, secondary steelwork and architectural metalwork, whether you fabricate in your own shop or subcontract fabrication, and whether you work direct for clients or as a subcontractor to a main contractor. Estimators, project managers, fabrication managers, site teams and the commercial team work from the same records, so the estimate you won with becomes the budget you track against, every steel order 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 steelwork? Archdesk also serves:
A steel job is only as good as its current revision. Fabrication and erection drawings are revision controlled, with approvals and distribution tracked, so the shop cuts and the site erects from the same drawing, and the trail is there when a connection gets questioned later.
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. Crews, cranage and program planned across your live jobs.
Drawings revision controlled and approvals tracked, with design changes priced as variations before the steel is cut.
Steel, fixings and subcontracted fabrication ordered as committed cost, deliveries tracked against the phases they gate.
Hours, erected steel and site records flow back from the field daily, with bolting and welding inspections captured as phases complete.
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 structural steel contractors manage estimating and bidding, fabrication and erection scheduling, timesheets, steel 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 structural frames, secondary steelwork and architectural metalwork, whether you fabricate in your own shop or subcontract fabrication, and whether you work direct for clients or as a subcontractor to a main contractor.
Fabrication and erection sit in one schedule across all your live jobs. Deliveries are tracked against the phases they gate, so a slipping fabrication date shows up in the erection program early, before crews and crane time are booked against steel that is not there.
Purchase orders for sections, plate, fixings and subcontracted fabrication hit the project budget as committed cost the moment they are raised. Because every order sits against the budget line it was estimated on, you see the gap between the price you allowed and the price you paid as it opens, job by job.
When section sizes, connections or steel weights change as the design develops, the change is captured, priced and pushed through approval before the steel is cut. Approved variations carry into your payment application, so design growth stops being margin you give away.
Yes. Drawings are revision controlled, with approvals and distribution tracked, so the shop fabricates and the site erects from the current revision, and the document trail is there when a connection gets questioned later.
Yes. Supervisors and erectors record timesheets, complete site forms, log erected steel and capture inspection 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. Bolting and welding inspections, installation records and photo evidence are captured in the field as each phase completes, and every record lives against the project. The documentation behind your handover builds as you erect instead of being assembled in the final week.
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 erection, to the final account. Book a demo and see.
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