Pipe Estimating
Piping man-hour estimating for the field: enter quantities by work category on a tablet and see total man-hours, labor, material and total cost as you go.
Product walkthrough
Two walkthroughs. Click through each at your own pace.
01 · Estimate development
Set the labor rate, punch items and the percentages for mob/demob, scaffold and material. Then choose the work, its size and pressure rating, and see the estimated value.
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Select “Project Walk-A-Bout.”
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Click “P0070.”
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Click “Job factors.”
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Click “Difficulty.”
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Click “Labor rate (All In Rate).”
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Enter the number of “Punch” items.
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Enter the % for “Mob / Demob.”
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Enter the % for “Scaffold.”
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Enter the % for “Material.”
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Use the drop-down to select the work you’ll be doing.
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Select “Valves.”
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Choose the “Size.”
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Choose the “150#” pressure rating.
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See the estimated value based on your selections.
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All the summary information is shown here too.
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Go back to the Summary Estimate page.
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All pipe estimates for the project are in one list.
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Here’s what you have so far. That’s PipePAK Estimate Development.
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Jobs grouped under projects, quantities entered by work category, and a live rollup of man-hours and cost, laid out for a tablet in the field.
Group jobs under a project with its location and dates, and see the project's total man-hours and cost beside each job's.
Projects & jobs
Group jobs under a project with its location and dates, and see the project's total man-hours and cost beside each job's.
Pick a category, from blinding and valves to weld-outs and hydro, each showing its running total in man-hours.
17 work categories
Pick a category, from blinding and valves to weld-outs and hydro, each showing its running total in man-hours.
Enter quantities by pipe size, pressure rating and operation, and each line's man-hours appear as you type.
Quantity grid
Enter quantities by pipe size, pressure rating and operation, and each line's man-hours appear as you type.
Set the difficulty, labor rate, punch, mob/demob, scaffold and material factors, with the estimate total updating as you edit.
Job factors
Set the difficulty, labor rate, punch, mob/demob, scaffold and material factors, with the estimate total updating as you edit.
Subtotal, punch, mob/demob and scaffolding roll up to total man-hours, labor cost, material cost and total cost.
The cover rollup
Subtotal, punch, mob/demob and scaffolding roll up to total man-hours, labor cost, material cost and total cost.
Give a job its pipe color, from fire water to steam, and that service's complexity factor is applied to its man-hours.
Pipe colors by service
Give a job its pipe color, from fire water to steam, and that service's complexity factor is applied to its man-hours.
Export an estimate to PDF to share, or to Excel with every line item, and see every project's man-hours and cost in one report.
Exports & reports
Export an estimate to PDF to share, or to Excel with every line item, and see every project's man-hours and cost in one report.
Admins edit the man-hour factors by category, with a catalog version and a history of each factor edit.
Factor catalog
Admins edit the man-hour factors by category, with a catalog version and a history of each factor edit.
Questions
PipePAK is ControlPAK's piping man-hour estimating software. Planners group jobs under projects, enter quantities by work category and see total man-hours, labor cost, material cost and total cost as they work, on a tablet.
Each line's man-hours are its quantity times a man-hour factor, looked up by work category, pipe size, pressure rating and operation. The lines add up to a subtotal. Punch is added, along with mob/demob and scaffolding (each a factor of the subtotal), and that sum is multiplied by the job's difficulty factor and its pipe color's complexity factor to give total man-hours. Labor cost is total man-hours times the labor rate, and material cost is a factor of labor cost.
Seventeen: blinding and deblinding, valves, bolt-ups, torquing, carbon steel cuts, alloy cuts, demo cold-cut, demo pipe hot, hang and erect spools, shop fabrication, field fit-up, carbon weld-out, alloy weld-out, tie points, steam trace and tubing, supports, and hydro.
No. Each line keeps the man-hour factor it was entered with, and each job keeps its pipe color's complexity factor, so later edits to the catalog or the color chart never change a saved estimate.
Yes. Export a PDF summary to share, or an Excel workbook with a summary sheet and a line items sheet listing every saved quantity, factor and line's man-hours. A project values report lists every project with its total man-hours and total cost.
Planners can view every project and estimate; create, edit, duplicate and delete their own; export; and view reports. Admins can also edit the man-hour factor catalog and the pipe color chart.
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