How to make your building firm stand out from the competition with 3D models

Does your building firm stand out from your competitors? When costs are close there’s often little to choose between competing building firms – so what’s a homeowner to do? What is it that gets companies on to the short list? Visuals. Lovely images of what could be. Basically, an impressive visualisation of a dream extension…

Chancellor’s Winter Economy Plan – what it means for UK Building Firms

The Winter Economy Plan has been announced! James Powell, from HBXL’s network partners, Comera Professional, runs through the Statement from the Chancellor on Thursday 24 September 2020. He explains the key points for small to medium sized building firms. New Job Support Scheme Firstly, the furlough scheme is not being extended, though there wasn’t much…

How to calculate the cost of being Covid-19 secure on the building site

Now you can calculate the cost of being Covid-19 secure – take a look further down the page at the step-by-step screen shots of the new Covid-19 Estimating Calculator in EstimatorXpress 2020. Being Covid-19 Secure on the building site comes at a price – one that needs to be passed on to your customers. After…

Automated Gantt Chart and new Rounding tool – new EstimatorXpress 2020 update

EstimatorXpress 2020 has had more new features added to it and Jim the HBXL Technical Director explains two of them in the webinar recording here. The EstimatorXpress 2020 Gantt Chart has just got really clever.  And that’s because the development team has super-charged the Build Programme tool, as it’s also called. This advanced version uses…

What’s the plan? More money? More free time? Easier life?

Want more business success for your building firm? Are you keeping things just the way they are? Or have you imagined a better way of working? Are you using these strange times as an opportunity to make improvements? You need a plan. Yep. A plan. You’ve probably heard the saying ‘Failing to plan is planning…

Best Building and Construction Software Developers – 2020. That’s HBXL!

HBXL Building Software is proud to share the news of an exciting award win! Corporate Vision Magazine has announced the winners of the 2020 Technology Innovator Awards – and we’re one of them! It’s official! We’re the ‘Best Building & Construction Software Developers – UK 2020’. The winners are judged on their excellence in the…