Estimating Software for NZ Infrastructure

Estimate with confidence

Benchmark Estimating empowers your decision-making, boosts business intelligence, promotes sustainability and optimises costs. Trusted globally by leading UK, AU and NZ infrastructure owners, contractors and consultants.

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Built by engineers for engineers

Carbon Estimating

A powerful way to simultaneously calculate cost and whole of life carbon across your infrastructure portfolio. Ensuring alignment with kiwi net-zero policies.

Cost Estimating

Estimate cost with confidence across your programmes, projects and portfolios.

Insights & Analytics

Next level business intelligence, reporting and analytics solutions, engineered to give New Zealand firms a decisive edge throughout the project lifecycle.

Data Services

Our contractor estimating software provides expert comprehensive support for setting up and managing your estimating data.

Trusted globally for over 30 years

Benchmark Estimating provided a way for us to streamline and simplify our cost estimating processes and gave us consistency and accuracy to our quoting. We now know that if we were going to price a job, we could get it done within tight turnarounds and without the frustrations.

Ross Inglis
National Operations Manager

Benchmark Estimating can manage day-to-day quotes quickly and accurately as well as handling major projects quoting with ease. The ultimate benefit is the ability to improve the business by easily and accurately comparing field performance to our estimates. Benchmark Estimating provides the ideal starting point for this.

David Rodger
Project Manager National Rollout

We have selected Benchmark Estimating because, no matter what line of work each individual business unit is in, the software can produce estimates quickly and accurately. We were impressed with how quickly we can implement Benchmark Estimating into new business units.

Peter Reidy
Chief Operating Officer

Benchmark Estimating’s capability has given National Highways the ability to drive down capital costs whilst creating cost certainty for the capital program. Benchmark Estimating has worked hard to deliver this unique estimating capability and proves their commitment to deliver on time, cost and quality for their customers.

Mark Gripton
Head of Total Cost Management Team, Commercial Division

With Benchmark Estimating, Programmed Facility Management will be able to provide a consistent and transparent method of estimating; and it allows us to implement common processes and best practices for all Programmed Facility Management users across the country.

Rick Pelletier
Business Systems Manager

We have worked with the team from Benchmark Estimating for many years and they have always provided BORAL with good, timely support. Their support services are quick to respond and give assistance whenever called upon. No problem is too great or challenging.

Stephen Meredith
Business Support Analyst
unique features

What sets Benchmark Estimating Software apart

Unique perspective

Leveraging three decades of engineering expertise and local market intelligence, Benchmark Estimating Software delivers estimation tools finely tuned to NZ asset owners.

Full asset lifecycle

Estimate and report throughout the infrastructure lifecycle. Effectively manage multiple projects, operations, and entire portfolios to advance towards net zero goals and optimise costs.

Integration of cost & carbon

Seamless integration within a single platform. Access data concurrently, leveraging existing structures and practices for efficient implementation.

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Single platform

Unlock your entire estimating ecosystem with a unified platform that connects your organisation to your supply chain.

Enterprise-wide

Engineered for peak performance and scalability, our software handles large datasets, making it the optimal choice for businesses managing complex infrastructure portfolios.

Supports flexible estimating

Create highly accurate, detailed, bottom-up estimates using first-principles estimating. Also supports top-down estimating with configurable key parameters.

who we help

Tailored for asset owners, contractors and consultants

For over 30 years, Benchmark Estimating has helped organisations across different industries, in New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom. Our cost estimating software is designed to help asset owners, contractors, and consultants to simplify their project planning and create accurate estimates.

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Knowledge resources

Boost your estimating processes with our knowledge resources

case study

SA Water finds consistency and assurance with Benchmark Estimating

A reliance on spreadsheets led to less-than-optimal cost estimating outcomes for SA Water’s River Murray Operations team. Hear how they sought a solution which would allow them to improve their estimating capability

SA Water finds consistency and assurance with Benchmark Estimating

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