Structmate prepares Bills of Quantities, trade breakdowns and pre-tender estimates for Australian builders — so you can price more tenders, protect your margin, and stop measuring drawings at midnight.
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If you turn over between $1m and $20m you probably price your own work. That means measuring off drawings after the site shuts, chasing supplier quotes between calls, and submitting a number you are not entirely comfortable with. Two things follow: you underprice jobs you win, and you overprice jobs you lose. Both cost money, and neither shows up as a line item anywhere.
Outsourcing measurement means you can price four tenders in the time it used to take to price one — without giving up your evenings.
A properly measured bill exposes the quantities you were rounding. On a $2m job, a two per cent measurement error is $40,000 of your margin.
When a client questions a number, you have a measured bill behind it rather than a recollection of what the last job cost.
Three ways to work with us, each quoted as a fixed fee within 24 hours of seeing your drawings.
Quantities grouped by trade in construction sequence — the format you actually price from and send to subbies.
Measured to the Australian standard method and formatted for tender or contract use.
The full submission picture: priced estimate, construction methodology and an indicative program.
No meetings required. The whole process runs by email, around your schedule.
Email your plans and specifications. You get a fixed-fee quote and a delivery date within one business day.
Your job is measured to Australian standards. Drawing queries are batched into one RFI list, not drip-fed.
Every bill is checked line by line against the drawings before it leaves our desk.
Excel and PDF within five business days, structured so you can drop rates straight in.
An exact price within 24 hours of seeing your drawings. No hourly creep, no open-ended consulting bill.
A full-time estimator costs $120k+ before software. Get the output job by job instead.
Structmate is led by Gurleen Singh, a practising quantity surveying professional who works in tender programs, trade quotes and margin decisions every day.
Drawing queries arrive once, in a single organised list. Your time is the entire point of hiring us.
Bills arrive structured for rate entry and trade-by-trade distribution, not as a locked PDF you have to retype.
Sydney to Perth, metro or regional. Fully remote delivery means location makes no difference to price or turnaround.
Standard turnaround is five business days from the point you accept the fee. Drawings that arrive Monday are typically back with you by Friday. If your tender closes sooner, say so when you enquire — shorter turnarounds are sometimes possible and are quoted separately.
A full BOQ for residential or light commercial work runs from $1,800 ex GST. A trade breakdown starts at $900 ex GST. Every job is quoted as a fixed fee before any work begins, so the number you accept is the number you pay.
Architectural plans, elevations and sections at minimum, ideally at DA or CC stage. Structural, hydraulic and electrical drawings improve accuracy where they exist. Specifications, a finishes schedule and a window schedule all help. If something is missing we tell you what the gap means for the numbers rather than quietly assuming.
Yes. Structmate is based in Sydney and delivers Australia-wide by email. Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra, Hobart, Darwin, and regional work are all handled the same way — if you can email drawings, we can measure them.
A full-time estimator in Australia costs well over $120,000 a year once on-costs are included, before software. Structmate is engaged job by job, so you carry the cost only on tenders you actually price.
Excel and PDF. The Excel version is structured so you can drop your own rates in, send trade sections to subcontractors, and roll totals up without rebuilding anything.
No meetings, no retainer, no open-ended hourly bills. Email your plans and you'll have an exact price and a delivery date the next business day.
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