Design-build company software: from design to construction in one system

The Ta3mir integrated account puts both sides of the work in one account: the technical office, design and estimating on one side, and construction, certificates, stores and attendance on the other. For each project you choose who supervises: in-house supervision by your own team, an external consultant, or none.

What a design-build company needs, in one account

Each section is a module that runs today in an integrated account, and each module has its own page.

Technical office and design

A drawing register with revisions and disciplines, specifications, correspondence and transmittals, RFIs and material approvals, all tied to the project with a documented approval path.

  • Every drawing keeps its number, current revision and revision history
  • Technical-office forms with automatic numbering per type and bilingual print
  • Ready folders for project documents

Estimating and quantity take-off

Build the estimate by analysing each item’s rate from materials, labour and equipment, then carry the quantities into the project BOQ that later certificates are built on.

  • Item rate analysis with overheads and profit
  • Measurement sheets linked to the BOQ
  • BOQ import from Excel and export to it

Schedule and earned value

Build the schedule on a Gantt chart with the critical path, track earned value with SPI and CPI, and import Primavera P6 and MS Project schedules.

  • Critical path and float recomputed on every edit
  • Baselines to measure variance against
  • XER, P6 XML and MSP XML import and export

In-house supervision per project

In each project’s settings you set how it is supervised: in-house by your company’s consultant side, by an external consultant connected to the project, or not at all. With in-house supervision the consultant tools work on your own projects, with separate people on each side.

  • A daily supervision tour that records each item with a photo, location and time (integrated accounts)
  • An NCR inbox with an owner and a reply date
  • Quality checklists and inspection requests

Certificates from construction to the owner

On an in-house supervised project a certificate passes from the construction side to the supervision side and then to the management side, which approves it as the employer, and the supervision-fee invoice is issued after the management side approves it. Subcontractor certificates are issued against their contracts too.

  • Interim and final certificates with previous, current and cumulative computed for you
  • No one approves a certificate they prepared
  • Approving a certificate posts its value to the accounts

Costs and expenses per project

Record every expense against its project and cost item, compare budget with actual and follow the cash flow, so each project keeps one ledger.

  • A ledger per project by cost item
  • Expense requests from site that pass an approval before payment
  • Budget against actual and cash flow

Stores and procurement

A store per site with a live balance per item, purchase requests that pass an approval, supplier quote comparison and purchase orders.

  • A balance per item with a minimum that warns you before it runs out
  • Approved purchase requests, then purchase orders to suppliers

Worker attendance and payroll

Workers punch in from the Ta3mir Field app inside the site’s geofence, and payroll is computed from attendance.

  • One-tap punch, accepted only inside the site geofence
  • A monthly payroll per site, ready to approve and print

Is the design-build software free?

The free engineering tools and Excel templates are fully free, with no sign-up and no email. You can also try an integrated-company demo account with ready project data for free before you subscribe. The integrated account itself is a paid subscription: the “Integrated Company” plan starts at EGP 3,990 a month, with quarterly or yearly billing as options.

Does it work with Excel?

Yes. Start from your current files and carry on in Ta3mir.

  • Import the BOQ and a certificate from an Excel file
  • Export quantities and reports to Excel, with Arabic A4 print
  • Free Excel templates for the certificate, rate analysis and the RFI
Free Excel templates

Guides and templates for design-build

Design-build software FAQ

How is the integrated account different from the contractor account?

The integrated account has the same contractor modules and adds an in-house supervision option per project, the daily supervision tour and the NCR inbox.

Can an external consultant supervise some projects?

Yes. Supervision is set per project: in-house, an external consultant connected to the project, or none.

Does it separate the construction team from the supervision team?

Yes. With in-house supervision each side works with separate people, every approval keeps its author and date, and no one approves a certificate they prepared.

Does it support Primavera and MS Project?

Yes. Import XER and MS Project schedules, work on them inside Ta3mir, then export to XER, P6 XML and MSP XML.

Does the site team work from mobile?

Yes, from the Ta3mir Field app: workers punch in inside the site geofence, and fingerprint-device files can be imported too.

Run design and construction from one account

Compare the plans and pick what suits your company, or try the demo account first.