Every CSI Division
A page for every trade we measure. Pick a division from the Trades list and you get exactly what we take off in it, the software it is measured in, sample deliverables, and a request form for that scope alone.
Output is organised by current CSI MasterFormat sections, and mapped to your own cost codes on request.
Demolition, abatement and existing-conditions quantities for renovation, fit-out and adaptive reuse work.
Concrete volumes come from the structural sections rather than plan area, reinforcing is weighed off the bar schedules into tonnage, and formwork is measured as square feet of contact area with the reuse assumption written down instead of buried in a rate.
Wall areas are measured by wall type off the elevations, sections and wall schedule, so a 12-inch grouted shear wall is never counted at the same rate as a 6-inch interior partition.
Structural members are counted and measured against the framing plans and the schedules, with connection material and miscellaneous metals carried separately so the fabrication and the erection scopes can be priced apart from each other..
Framing is taken off member by member and returned as a purchasable material list — pieces by dimension and length, board feet by species and grade, sheathing in sheets, hardware counted — so a yard can quote it without redrawing your scope first.
Roof and envelope areas are measured off the roof plan and the elevations with slope accounted for, and the edge conditions that carry most of the labour — flashing, terminations, penetrations — are measured as real linear feet rather than allowanced..
The door and window schedules are rebuilt from the drawings rather than transcribed, so a door shown on a plan but missing from the schedule gets caught, and hardware sets are carried to the opening they belong to..
Every wall type on the partition schedule is built as its own assembly, so a rated shaft wall is not measured like a single-layer office partition.
Specialty items are counted against the schedules and the enlarged plans, which is where they are actually drawn — a toilet accessory package taken off the floor plan alone is always short..
Equipment comes off the schedules, ductwork is measured by size and gauge so the sheet metal weight is real, and hydronic piping is taken run by run with fittings counted rather than carried as a percentage.
Fixtures are matched to the plumbing schedule tag by tag rather than counted off the floor plan, and piping is measured as routed runs with fittings, valves and hangers counted.
Devices are counted off the power and lighting plans, homeruns and feeders are measured as real routed lengths rather than straight-line distances, and the output is laid out the way an electrical contractor bids: item, quantity, material, labour unit, extended hours..
Paving, site concrete, fencing, planting and irrigation measured off the civil and landscape sheets.
Missed scope is the expensive failure in a takeoff — not a wrong number, but a line that was never picked up at all. The platform closes that gap in two passes: the AI reads everything, and an estimator checks what it found.
The agent parses the whole set — drawings, schedules, legends, general notes and the specification — instead of the sheets an estimator has time to open. Scope buried in a keynote or a spec section still surfaces.
Conditions that repeat across a set are where manual measurement drifts. Auto takeoff recognises a condition once and applies it everywhere it occurs, at the same calibration, so floor 9 is measured exactly like floor 2.
Revised sheets are compared against the set they replace, so a change buried in addendum three is flagged rather than quietly priced at the old quantity.
A trade estimator walks the agent output against the drawings line by line. The AI is fast and complete; a person makes the judgement calls — what the detail actually intends, what the spec really requires.
Where the drawings contradict themselves or leave something unstated, it goes on the RFI list instead of into a silent assumption. You decide the answer before it is priced.
The measurement overlay comes back with the deliverable, so any number can be traced to the sheet and detail it came from. You can audit the result rather than trust it.
Every division is measured in the BidcoreAI workspace — the same tool you can run yourself. Nothing is done in a spreadsheet you cannot audit or on a licence you do not own.
Drawings are calibrated per sheet and measured in one workspace, with areas, runs and counts captured against the sheet they came from.
Specifications, schedules and general notes are read alongside the drawings, so scope buried in the spec does not get missed.
Quantities drop straight into a priced estimate on your own cost library when you want the takeoff carried through to a number.
These are the project types that come up most often in the sets we are sent.
Building type not on the list? Send the set anyway — we quote on the drawings, not the category.
Three fields and your drawings. An estimator confirms scope and comes back with a fixed quote within 4 business hours.
