From plan to price. Take off civil plans, build real rates from labour, plant and materials, and turn quantities into a complete estimate — without rebuilding everything in spreadsheets.
Most NZ civil estimators price work in a spreadsheet that only they understand. The takeoff lives in one file, the rates in another, the quote in a Word doc — and when the job is won, the foreman gets a PDF and the budget gets retyped.
Fieldlink keeps the whole chain connected: the measured quantity carries its rate build-up into the estimate, the estimate becomes the quote, and winning the job creates the Fieldlink job with the budget already loaded. Nothing is re-entered.
Every rate can carry a full build-up so you can defend the number at tender review:
Measure pipes, trenches, areas and structures on the drawing — quantities flow into the estimate with their rates, so a drawing revision updates the price instead of triggering a rebuild.
Civil work end-to-end: drainage, earthworks, roading, three waters, subdivisions and siteworks. Take off quantities from the drawings, apply rates from your Rate Library or build them up from labour, plant, materials, overhead and margin, then issue the quote.
No — takeoff is built in. Upload PDF plans or images, calibrate the scale, and measure lengths, areas, volumes, pipe runs, trenches and counts. Quantities land straight in the estimate.
Yes. The Fieldlink Rate Library stores your company rates with optional full build-ups (materials + labour + plant + overhead + margin), and you can pull them into any takeoff, estimate, quote or invoice.
One click converts the estimate into a live Fieldlink job — budget, quantities and scope carry across, so the crew, plant, timesheets and job costing all start from the tendered numbers.
No — the AI Plan Reader finds pipes, structures and quantities on the drawings and suggests takeoff items, but the estimator reviews and approves everything. Fieldlink keeps you in control of the price.
Takeoff → estimate → quote → job → crew & plant → field → safety & QA → cost → invoice. 30-day free trial, no credit card.
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