A SHORTCUT MADE FOR CONSTRUCTION PROFESSIONAL, BUILDERS & TRADES
Now, you might be thinking this is all just a piss take.
Fair.
But there is a method in the madness.
Over the past two decades, I’ve been tangled up in construction, project delivery and estimating in one form or another. After a while, you start to notice certain patterns. How jobs are priced. How projects run. Where things go sideways. And how often “should be right” ends up being very much not right.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve had my fair share of wins, losses and complete fuck-ups along the way.
One thing that kept coming up was the need for a proper reference point. Something to help benchmark pricing, sense-check rates and work out whether a quote was in the ballpark or quietly walking you toward financial ruin.
Running a construction business is exciting, tiring, scary, frustrating and occasionally lonely. Good data does not fix everything, but it does give you something solid to lean on before you accidentally lose your shirt on a job you were “pretty confident” about.
That is why BuildaRate exists.
It gives you instant access to hundreds of built-up construction costing rates, quantified and backed by current market data. The sort of information that is hard to find, takes years to build, and usually only shows up after you’ve already learned the expensive way.
You can use it to sense-check your pricing, benchmark your rates, customise your build-ups and export them into the software or systems you already use.
If you want access, hit the button below.
Pre-loaded rate library
Why BuildaRate
Pricing jobs without solid rate data is where a lot of builders, trades and professionals get hurt.
Labour changes. Materials change. Old job costings grow legs and disappear the second a quote is due.
BuildaRate gives you instant access to built-up construction costing rates, backed by current market data and regularly updated.
You can customise the rates to suit your business, then export the build-ups for use in other software, as no two businesses price jobs exactly the same way.
It is a practical reference point to help you sense-check your pricing before the job starts costing more than it makes.
Toggle line items on or off and see exactly what is driving the sell rate.
Saved rates reopen with their scope, size, unit, production basis and build-up lines attached.
Download the build-up as a CSV so the number is not trapped inside the app.
FAQ
Enter your email and BuildaRate sends you a free downloadable CSV of the current rate library, including the build-up fields behind the rates.
You go straight into the loaded rate library first. From there you can open an existing rate, review the build-up, or hit Add Your Own Rate to create a new one.
You get a pre-loaded construction rate library with hourly rates, admin rates, consultant rates and built-up scope items. Each saved rate keeps its size, unit, sell rate and build-up information attached.
Yes. Use Add Your Own Rate from the library, enter the scope, size and unit, then BuildaRate takes you through the pricing inputs and build-up screen.
Yes. Open a library rate and you can change the scope, size, unit, labour hours, plant allowance, material costs, margin and notes before saving your own version.
Yes. Once you enter an email, new rates you add are saved under that login so you can reopen and adjust them later.
Yes. You can download selected rates as CSV from the library, and the free email popup can send the current library CSV directly to your inbox.
The rates are put together from construction pricing logic, trade inputs, market data and benchmark checks. They are made to give you a strong starting point, not a mystery number.
Yes. BuildaRate helps you move faster, but you should still check the labour, plant, materials, production rate, margin, location and site conditions before using a rate in a quote.