InEight Pricing and Scheduling
A Strong Foundation for Complex Capital Construction
InEight’s pricing and scheduling solutions set up capital projects for accuracy from the start. InEight Estimate builds accurate, defensible bids on work and cost breakdown structures that keep you competitive on the work you’re bidding. Those estimates flow into InEight Schedule, where they become a collaborative, interactive schedule. The data then feeds your project controls workflow — so the numbers your teams work from are ones they can trust.
Integrated Solutions for Capital Project Pricing and Scheduling
As part of our modular, integrated platform, InEight Estimate and InEight Schedule build your cost and time plans on one structure so accuracy carries from the bid through execution.
InEight Estimate
Build accurate estimates for any size project. Flexible structures let you work top-down or bottom-up, and built-in benchmarking validates your numbers against historical cost and productivity data from past projects, so every estimate holds up when someone asks where the number came from.
- Top-down and bottom-up estimating
- Cost and schedule integration
- Historical benchmarking
- Quote management
InEight Schedule
Full critical path method (CPM) capabilities with integrated look-ahead planning and risk assessment in one place. Collaborative markup brings field and office input into schedule validation, and look-ahead plans stay connected to the master schedule instead of living in disconnected side files.
- CPM scheduling
- Collaborative markup
- Integrated look-ahead planning
- Practical AI Tools
- Risk assessment
See How Early Work Pays Off Across the InEight Platform
Watch how project data moves from the estimate through the schedule and into cost control, field execution, and reporting across the InEight Platform.
Trusted By Industry Leaders
Why the Depth of Your Data Matters
With InEight, both estimates and schedules use the same work and cost breakdown structures and are informed by the same project history. The detail used during bid creation then carries into planning, execution, and reporting without being rebuilt.
The Estimate Becomes the Schedule
Work and cost breakdown structures created in InEight Estimate carry forward into the schedule and into your project controls structure. Cost items, quantities, and crew assumptions stay attached to the work, so teams downstream understand the estimator’s logic instead of making assumptions.
The Schedule Stays the Source of Truth
Look-ahead planning connects directly to the master schedule, so field teams work in the same system instead of in side schedules. Risk analysis runs inside that process, surfacing issues while there is still time to act. As work progresses, the schedule keeps feeding project controls rather than drifting from it.
Your Past Projects Set the Baseline
InEight Estimate benchmarks line items against cost and productivity rates from completed projects. InEight Schedule builds realistic starting plans from your historical schedules. The more projects you run on InEight, the better both get, because the depth of the data is yours rather than an industry average.
Data That Keeps Working After Award
Cost and schedule data feed InEight Control for budgets and forecasts, InEight Plan & Progress for work packaging and field progress, and InEight Report & Explore for portfolio analysis. InEight Estimate also connects to the tools you already run through integrations, including Primavera P6, Bluebeam, and enterprise systems.
We implemented InEight Schedule during our SunZia project and we’ve seen a huge time savings for our schedulers.
– Joshua Ruse, Director of Program Management for the Engineering,
Procurement and Construction Group, Pattern
We can put together estimates at least 50% faster with InEight. It allows us to move faster and spend less time doing estimates—while still having confidence that they’re right.
– Dave Maynard, President, Gradex
As a manager, I’m not willing to trade for accuracy. When we hand a client a deliverable, every dollar in that estimate should be accounted for, and InEight allows us to have that amount of detail.
– Scott Brower, Project Controls Manager, HNTB
The precision we get from InEight Estimate provides the confidence we need. In today’s competitive market, there’s no room for errors.
– Bob Carlson, VP Estimating, Hunter Contracting Company
InEight helps us understand the costs and communicate that to the people that are working on the project.
– Joseph Francisco, Vice President of Pre-Construction, Blois Construction
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS – InEight Pricing and Scheduling Solutions
Why does it matter that estimating and scheduling are integrated for capital projects?
Do I need both InEight Estimate and InEight Schedule?
No. The InEight Platform is modular, and both work on their own. Many organizations start with one, usually the product solving the more urgent problem, and add the second once it is in place. Running both adds depth: InEight Estimate benchmarks against more cost and productivity history, InEight Schedule builds from more past plans, and the breakdown structures carry forward instead of getting rebuilt at handover. The estimate and the schedule end up describing the same scope rather than two versions of it.
Where does risk management fit in the scheduling process of a capital project?
Risk runs from bid through execution. InEight Schedule keeps risk assessment in the same model as the activities it affects, so teams can identify event and uncertainty risk together and run Monte Carlo simulations to calculate the contingency needed to reach a target confidence level. Mitigation plans move with the schedule rather than sitting in a risk register reviewed once a month.
Why should teams prevent look-ahead plans from disconnecting from the CPM schedule?
Preventing disconnection matters because the master schedule stops reflecting what the field is actually doing. Once they separate, you are measuring progress against a plan the field stopped using. InEight Schedule connects look-ahead planning to the master schedule directly, so short-term commitments and the overall plan stay the same plan.
What happens to estimate data in InEight after a capital project is awarded?
Once awarded, the estimate data becomes the budget. Cost and schedule data can then flow into InEight Control for budgets and forecasts, InEight Plan & Progress for work packaging and field progress, and InEight Report & Explore for portfolio analysis. The breakdown structures stay intact through execution, so you can compare actual performance against the original basis instead of a rebuilt budget.
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