Why Iron Civil
Built from real heavy-civil estimating experience.
Iron Civil gives heavy civil estimating teams control over what happens next — which quote is carried, what drives the direct cost, how the final bid is leveled, and which estimate option becomes the proposal.
The reason to change
A switch has to earn the disruption.
Your current system may already hold years of crews, codes, and estimates. A cleaner screen and another feature list are not enough reason to move. Iron Civil should earn the switch where the risk is highest: controlling the final number and proving every decision behind it.
01
Cost Review connected to the estimate
Examine the cost mix and compare bid items, activities, and resources by unit cost and total. Follow a bid item back to the estimate to inspect its buildup.
02
Bid leveling that leaves cost alone
Set the target, protect the items that cannot move, place the difference where you want it, and see what is still left to distribute. The cost basis stays intact.
03
Quote decisions you can trace
Compare vendors against shared scope items, quantities, and units. See unit prices and extended totals together, then decide which quote to apply to the estimate.
04
Guardrails where mistakes happen
Preview imported values before they reach the estimate, surface work left behind by a deleted bid item, and reject invalid percentage inputs before they are stored.
The comparison that matters
Do not compare feature lists. Run one bid.
Use a completed estimate your team knows cold. Put Iron Civil beside the system you use today and make both products answer the same questions.
- 01Build an estimate from codebooks, manual entry, or Excel.
- 02Compare two vendors’ unit prices against the same scope and quantities.
- 03Move the target bid while protecting the unit prices that cannot change.
- 04Compare the estimate before and after the final pricing decisions.
- 05Choose a saved estimate option and prepare its proposal.
Scope
Built for estimating today. More planned ahead.
Iron Civil currently focuses on estimating, from building the work to preparing the proposal. Graphical plan measurement, field and project management, and accounting are planned for the future. These capabilities are not available today, and release timing has not been announced.
Make Iron Civil earn the switch.
Explore the real screens and compare them with how your team works today. Then review pricing and setup, or send an inquiry by email. A personal walkthrough is optional.