Construction Estimating Services
Know What Your Build Should Cost – Accurate, Independent Pricing
Built For Builders Tradies Architects Homeowners
Construction Estimating Services Australia-Wide
Matrix Estimating provides detailed construction estimating services Australia-wide for builders, tradies, architects and homeowners. We prepare fully measured construction cost estimates, Bills of Quantities, quantity take-offs, tender estimates and elemental cost plans for residential and commercial projects.
Built from the drawings, trade by trade.
Rather than relying on broad square-metre rates, we measure the project directly from the drawings. Quantities, labour, materials, allowances and rates are clearly identified, giving you a detailed cost breakdown that can be checked against the plans.
See exactly what has been measured.
Depending on the project, deliverables can include priced and unpriced Bills of Quantities, marked-up drawings and a CostX Viewer file showing where quantities have been measured — giving you an estimate you can understand, interrogate and use.
Traceable measurement
A quantity take-off
you can actually check.
At Matrix, we don’t ask you to trust our take-off — we let you check it. Every quantity is traceable back to the drawings: open any BOQ line, see the corresponding measurement in the CostX Viewer, and trace it back to the drawing it came from.
Whether you’re pricing the full project or a single trade, you can see exactly what each quantity covers — where it sits, how it’s distributed, and the access, height and staging you need to allow for.
Below is one trade from a real Matrix bill. Step through it.
Scroll the sheet — the masonry block sits at row 234, well down a long bill
The colours are the measurement groups — each one is a separate line in the bill
Every masonry item
7 measured lines
Seven separate lines in the bill, seven separate wall groups in the model.
Every line carries its measurement with it. You get the priced bill, the unpriced bill for tendering, the marked-up sheets and the CostX viewer file — so you can capture the complete scope and price it for where it actually is.
Estimating built around your role
Whether you're tendering, renovating, quoting a trade or designing it in the first place — the estimate you need is a different one.
Builder
Estimates for Builders
Trade-by-trade takeoffs so you can tender quickly without leaving margin on the table.
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Home Renovator
Estimates for Renovators
Know what the work should cost before you sign, and compare builder quotes like for like.
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Tradie
Estimates for Tradies
Accurate quantities for your trade, so you can price more jobs in less time.
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Architect
Estimates for Architects
Cost plans that keep your design on budget from concept through to tender.
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The Matrix Standard
The Matrix Promise
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Measured
Every quantity is taken off the drawings and sits in the 3D model, in colour, with a legend on every sheet. Not a square-metre rate. Not a guess. A measure you can see.
Accurate
Rates built from our own benchmark library, checked against current industry pricing and adjusted for your location and market – a price for this job, here, now. Every rate shows its material, its labour and the crew-and-days behind that labour, so your estimator can check it.
Transparent
The whole project comes to you in the free CostX Viewer: the drawings and 3D model with every mark-up on them, each line of the bill linked to where it was measured. Your team, your subcontractors and your client can all open it.
Risk-priced
Everything on the drawings is measured, priced and checked twice. The few items that can’t be measured yet aren’t left out – they’re named and priced in the risk and allowances schedule, so the number is complete, and the only variations on the job are the ones the client asks for.
Itemised
Broken down by trade and element in line with the Australian and New Zealand Standard Method of Measurement (ANZSMM), with your margin visible on every single item. Never a lump sum.
Cross-checked
First, you can cross-check our work – every quantity against the drawing and the model. Then, because your subcontractors quote against the same measured scope, cross-checking their prices is just as easy: a light price shows the item it’s missing before you’ve signed it.
Every Matrix estimate is built to this standard — whatever the size of the job.
Request a Fee ProposalOur work
Recently completed projects
A selection of the residential, commercial and fit-out work we’ve measured and priced.
Our Reviews
- No-obligation fee proposal
- Fixed fee confirmed before we start
- Plans optional — describe your project in words
- Scope reviewed by experienced construction estimators
- Response within 1 business day
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