Electrical estimating software for electrical contractors and design-build teams. Devices, fixtures and equipment counted across every level, homeruns and feeders measured with routing allowances you can see, gear taken from the one-line, and everything priced against your own labor units.
Electrical drawings show you what to count and almost nothing about what to buy. A lighting plan tells you there are 214 fixtures of six types. It does not tell you how much wire connects them, how the homeruns route, how far a drop falls from the deck to a device, or how much conduit gets bent around a duct that is not on your sheet. That gap between what is drawn and what is installed is where electrical estimates go wrong, and no amount of measuring precision closes it — only stated assumptions do.
BidcoreAI counts what can be counted and makes the rest explicit. Devices, fixtures, equipment connections and junction boxes are counted by type across every level and reconciled against the fixture and panel schedules. Homeruns are measured to the panel with a routing factor and a drop allowance applied per area type, both shown as applied rather than folded into a rate. Feeders come off the one-line diagram by size and length, and the gear — panels, switchboards, transformers, disconnects — is taken from the schedules as counted equipment.
Pricing runs on labor units, the way electrical estimating actually works. Each item carries an install unit — hours per device, per fixture, per hundred feet of conduit by size and method — from your own historical productivity or an industry base you adjust. Conditions that change productivity are applied as factors you can see: work above 15 feet, occupied buildings, after-hours work, exposed versus concealed, EMT versus rigid.
The result is an estimate a reviewer can interrogate. If your number is 12% above the next bid, the conversation is about whether 214 fixtures is right, whether the drop allowance was 12 feet or 18, and whether the other bidder priced the feeder as aluminium — rather than about two totals that share no visible structure.
Power plans, lighting plans, the one-line, panel schedules and fixture schedules, read together.
Counted by type and mounting from the power plans, reconciled against the symbol legend.
Fixtures counted by type from the lighting plans and checked against the fixture schedule.
Homeruns measured to the panel with routing and drop allowances applied and visible.
Taken off the one-line by size and length rather than guessed from the floor plan.
Counted from the schedules and priced as equipment, with its own delivery and lead-time notes.
The Division 27 and 28 scope that lands on the electrical contractor whether or not it is drawn.
Symbol counting, labor units and visible assumptions — the three things an electrical bid runs on.
Devices and fixtures recognised by symbol and counted across every sheet, then presented for confirmation against the legend.
Counted fixtures and equipment cross-checked against the fixture and panel schedules, with mismatches flagged as RFI candidates.
Circuit runs measured to their panel, with routing factors and vertical drop allowances applied per area and shown as applied.
Feeder sizes and lengths read from the one-line diagram, with conduit, conductors and grounding sized accordingly.
Install hours per device, fixture and hundred feet of conduit from your own history or an industry base you adjust.
Height, occupancy, after-hours and exposed-versus-concealed applied as visible productivity factors rather than a gut adjustment at the end.
Wire, conduit, fittings and gear priced from your supplier pricing, with volatile items flagged for a fresh quote before submission.
Distribution equipment tracked as counted items with lead-time notes, because switchgear delivery now decides schedules.
Every floor measured in one pass, with quantities grouped by level, panel or phase.
A re-issued lighting or power plan is compared against the last, so added devices are flagged instead of found later.
Counts, runs and priced estimates exported to Excel or CSV with sheet references on every line.
A proposal drafted from the priced estimate, carrying the inclusions, exclusions and allowances you actually assumed.
Division 26 with the 27 and 28 sections that usually arrive attached to it.
Fit-outs, hospitals, schools, data halls and industrial plants — device counts scale, the method does not change.
Count, connect, size, price — with the assumptions written down at each step.
The estimate stops being a total and becomes a set of statements you can defend.
Automatic reconciliation against the fixture and panel schedules catches the miscounts and drawing conflicts that otherwise surface after award.
Routing factors and drop allowances shown as applied mean a bid comparison can be about scope rather than about two opaque numbers.
Industry labor units are a starting point. Your crews' actual productivity is the number that predicts your cost, and it belongs in the estimate.
Switchgear and transformer lead times now drive schedules more than installation does. Tracking them at bid time is a scheduling decision, not an afterthought.
Symbol recognition across a full set removes the slowest, most error-prone part of electrical takeoff — the part where an estimator loses their place at 11pm.
A re-issued lighting plan is compared to the previous one, so twelve added fixtures are a flagged difference rather than a discovery on site.
Because an electrical estimate is a stack of assumptions, and they should be legible.
Every counted symbol is shown on its sheet and reconciled against the schedule. Reviewing is faster than counting, and far more accurate.
Drop and routing allowances are inputs you set and see, not constants hidden inside a unit price.
Install hours come from your own completed work, adjusted by condition factors you control.
Feeders sized and measured from the one-line rather than approximated off the floor plan.
No workstation licence, and the marked-up set opens on a tablet in the field.
When the volume spikes, electrical estimating services run in this same platform.
Send the power and lighting plans, the one-line and the schedules, and have the package counted and priced for you — devices and fixtures by type, homeruns and feeders with the routing assumptions stated, gear from the schedules, priced against your own labor units.
One platform, one cost database, one set of drawings — whichever scope you are pricing today.
Compare the device counts, the feeder lengths and the labor hours against what you submitted.
