Demolition estimating software for demolition and interior contractors. Removal quantities measured by element and material from the demolition plans, converted to disposal volume and tonnage, with protection, shoring and abatement interfaces carried as scope rather than as an allowance.
Demolition looks like the least technical package on a project and behaves like one of the least forgiving. The labor to take something apart is only part of the cost. The rest is disposal — how many cubic yards of debris, how many tons, how many containers, how many haul cycles, which waste streams have to be separated, and what the tipping fee is for each. A selective interior demolition bid that got the labor right and the container count wrong will still lose money, and the container count follows from the volume and density of what comes out, which is a takeoff problem.
BidcoreAI measures demolition by element and material from the demolition plans. Walls by type and area, ceilings by area, flooring by area and material, casework and fixtures by count, MEP removals by run and device, structural removals by volume and material. Each element carries a material density, so measured quantities convert into disposal volume and tonnage rather than stopping at square feet.
Selective demolition is measured room by room, because that is how it is performed and how it is phased in an occupied building. Protection scope — temporary partitions, floor and surface protection, dust control, negative air, path protection — is quantified rather than allowed for, and on a fit-out in an operating facility it is frequently a larger number than the demolition itself.
Where the drawings or the specification indicate hazardous materials, the abatement interface is flagged rather than swallowed. Asbestos, lead paint, mould and contaminated soils belong to a licensed abatement scope, and the estimate should say clearly what has been excluded and where the boundary lies. Structural removals carry their shoring and their sequencing, which are engineering questions that appear in a bid as costs and as risk.
Demolition plans, existing conditions drawings, hazardous materials survey and the phasing plan.
Measured room by room, because that is how selective demolition is performed and phased.
Volume and material by element, with the shoring and sequencing that go with them.
Runs and devices counted, since MEP demolition is slow and rarely drawn completely.
Converted from removal quantities using material density, by waste stream.
Often the larger cost on a fit-out inside an operating building.
Flagged and bounded rather than absorbed into the demolition price.
Removal quantities that turn into containers, and protection that turns into a line item.
Elements marked for removal detected on the demolition plans and measured by type, with each shown on its sheet.
Measured quantities converted to disposal volume and tonnage using material densities per element type.
Container size, count and haul cycles calculated from debris volume rather than estimated from experience alone.
Interior removals measured per room so the estimate matches how the work is phased in an occupied building.
Temporary partitions, floor protection, dust control and negative air quantified as scope with their own units.
Hazardous material locations from the survey flagged against the areas they affect, with exclusions written into the estimate.
Structural removals carry their shoring and sequencing requirements as costed scope rather than as an assumption.
Waste streams separated so diversion targets and their sorting labor are priced where the specification requires them.
Quantities grouped by phase, floor and access route, with night and weekend work factored where required.
Removal rates by element and access condition from your own history — hand demolition and machine work are not comparable.
A re-issued demolition plan compared against the previous one so added removals are flagged, not absorbed.
Removal schedules, disposal summaries and priced estimates exported with sheet references intact.
Division 02, with the abatement sections kept separate and clearly bounded.
Interior fit-outs, renovations, tenant turnovers, plant decommissioning and full structure demolition.
Measure what goes, weigh it, then price getting it off the site.
The disposal side stops being a guess and starts being arithmetic.
Converting removals with real material densities is what makes the container count and the tipping cost a calculation rather than a recollection.
On a fit-out in an operating building, protection and dust control routinely exceed the demolition. Quantifying it is the difference between a bid and a donation.
Writing the abatement exclusion into the estimate is the cheapest insurance available against a scope argument you cannot win.
Measuring selective demolition per room means the estimate matches the phasing plan and can be used for progress billing.
Hand demolition on the fourth floor with one elevator is nothing like machine work at grade, and separate productivity says so.
Recycling targets require sorting labor and separate streams. Pricing them makes an LEED requirement a line item rather than a surprise.
Because the cost of demolition is mostly the cost of moving the result.
Measured removals convert to volume and tonnage by material, so containers and haul cycles are computed rather than guessed.
Temporary partitions, dust control and negative air quantified with their own units and rates.
The abatement boundary is stated in the estimate, where it protects you, rather than assumed in a conversation.
Quantities grouped the way the work is sequenced, which makes the estimate usable for billing.
Measure and price from anywhere, with the marked-up demolition plan on a tablet on site.
Demolition packages can be measured for you through professional takeoff services.
Send the demolition plans and the hazardous materials survey and have the package measured for you — removals by element and room, disposal in volume and tonnage, container and haul counts, protection quantified and the abatement boundary written down.
One platform, one cost database, one set of drawings — whichever scope you are pricing today.
Compare the debris tonnage and the haul count against what actually left the site.
