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Are you one of the many UK builders worried about making costly mistakes because you’re so time poor? Well it’s definitely worth treating your time with as much care as your finances. It’s just as valuable. In fact your time literally is ‘currency’ so think hard about what you spend it on. Where can you save time? Where can you make more time? Here we look at some of the…

Health and safety fines – never had one? Don’t imagine you’ll ever get one? Geoff hasn’t got time for health and safety. Actually he’s never really given it much attention – even when work was quieter than it is now. He reckons it’s highly unlikely that the HSE will come knocking. It’s all scare tactics. And anyway he’s careful on site. He tells his crew to be careful on site.…

The nine key construction health and safety documents in Health & Safety Xpert that will help you meet your legal obligations and give you peace of mind. Now is not the time to take any risks with your employees, sub-contractors, visitors on site or customers. Where Covid-19 requirements are relevant they are automatically incorporated into these documents. These videos total 55 minutes – so that’s less than 55 minutes –…

Check out the 9 PlansXpress 3D models below PlansXpress gives you 3D models at the click of a button.  The user-friendly software is aimed at those with building knowledge rather than CAD skills. It’s a breakthrough for building companies wanting to offer design as well as build. Or companies that want to present 3D models as well as a quotation to a customer – and outsmart the competition! With the…

You’re running a building firm and you want to make money (not many are in it for the back ache and sore knees…). If you think success is measured by doing lots of work – always being busy – then think again. It’s not about how many construction jobs you estimate and win – it’s about how profitable they are. In other words don’t chase turnover – it’s all about…

PlansXpress 2021: 3D symbols – they keep on coming! Feast your eyes on the amazing new symbols that have been added to PlansXpress. Balconies with railings and glazed balustrades Triangular gable windows Fencing Freestanding porches Baths Parametric radiators Brick detailing Underground Foundations Concrete beams and columns Electrical fittings Wall and ceiling lights and shades Air source heat pump systems… This new range of 3D symbols will improve still further the…

ContractsXpert 2021 is here! Our ContractsXpert software is already a really useful, inexpensive tool for protecting the builder (and the customer) from misunderstandings and mis-communication. The Plain English contracts leave no one in doubt about the work covered, value, obligations, payment timings, defects, termination, warranties, insurance… It takes minutes to create the letters and the contracts themselves. Couldn’t be easier! But ContractsXpert 2021 has a new addition absolutely relevant to…

Health & Safety Xpert 2021 is out! All of our software tools are important but it would be difficult to argue that this tool is anything but essential. Our job is to keep you up-to-date with your site health and safety management in the eyes of the law. We want to help you keep your staff and subcontractors safe on site – and visitors and the public too. Which is…

Do you ever stop to think that even though you’re busy – your building firm could be losing money? Not necessarily the ‘going horribly into the red’ kind of losing. But reducing and reducing and reducing the profit that you could have made on a job. Or put it another way, have you considered that the money you’ve been grafting for could have been so much more? Take Geoff for…

The HBXL 2021 software range will be launched any week now – and have we got some massively useful new features for you! If you buy or subscribe to any or all of the software in the meantime you will automatically receive all the new features when they’re released. And all of you who have had the software for some time will automatically receive the updates if your Support &…

Finding it difficult to manage building project delays due to material and labour shortages? Worried that you’re going to be undercut if you quote prospective customers the new inflated prices? Is yours one of the building firms that The Construction Index has reported as struggling following the rise in customer enquiries? You really need the help of EstimatorXpress, ContractsXpert and ProjectXpert. You see; HBXL is so much more than speedily…