What is Sterling?
Sterling provides a powerful and adaptable digital solution for construction industry professionals, combining cost estimating and carbon emissions tracking in an integrated platform. The tool enables users to create sustainable cost plans by aligning carbon emissions with specific activities and resources, driving transparency and accountability throughout the construction lifecycle.
The platform offers resource-based estimating with both top-down and bottom-up approaches, comprehensive libraries for cost and carbon data, and support for various industry standards including ICMS, NRM1/2, SMM7, and CESMS. Sterling facilitates collaboration through multi-user functionality and provides tools for take-off, package management, reporting, and lifecycle analysis to help teams make informed economic and sustainable decisions.
Features
- Integrated Cost & Carbon Estimating: Combines financial planning with environmental impact tracking in one platform
- Resource-Based Estimating: Supports both top-down and bottom-up approaches with complex resource management
- Comprehensive Libraries: Includes cost and carbon resource libraries with standard and custom breakdown structures
- Take-off Capabilities: Supports manual DIM sheets, 2D take-off, and 3D take-off from various file formats
- Package Manager: Enables creation of bid packages, invitation of delivery partners, and comparison of bids
- Life Cycle Analysis: Provides net present cost and carbon calculations aligned to industry standards
- Reporting Engine: Offers customizable reports with out-of-the-box templates and simple export functionality
- Multi-User Collaboration: Allows teams to collaborate in one space for creating, developing, and reviewing estimate data
Use Cases
- Creating sustainable cost plans that align carbon emissions with project activities and resources
- Managing procurement processes by creating bid packages and comparing subcontractor pricing with carbon visibility
- Forecasting project costs and carbon emissions through integration with planning tools like Primavera P6
- Conducting lifecycle cost and carbon analysis for construction projects from design to end-of-life
- Building cost and carbon benchmarks to support investment decisions and design optimization
- Streamlining take-off processes from various file formats including PDF, DWG, IFC, RVT, and NWD
- Collaborating with project teams on estimate development and review in a shared digital workspace
