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What we estimate.
Nothing else.

Five specialist disciplines — water, sewer, pump stations, stormwater, and variations. No general civil, no structural, no tendering. Just deep utility infrastructure estimating, priced the way it gets built.

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Five specialist disciplines. No general civil, no structural, no tendering services. Just deep water and sewer infrastructure estimating, extended to the stormwater and civil scope that sits alongside these projects. Each discipline below — water, sewer, pump stations, stormwater, and variations — has its own dedicated page with the full detail of what we estimate, what we deliver, and how we work to authority specifications.

Five specialist disciplines

How we work

Every project we estimate follows the same structured approach. Our method page explains the three-stage process: scope review, estimate build, and delivery with the assumptions and exclusions register that makes our submissions defensible. Whether the project is a 100-lot subdivision in Sydney, a deep sewer lead-in in Newcastle, or a pump station compound in regional Victoria — the work is the same.

We work to the actual authority specification on the project — Sydney Water Specifications, Hunter Water, MRWA-aligned conventions for Victoria, council-specific frameworks for regional Queensland and stormwater work. Each authority has its own current revision of standards, its own preferred materials, its own acceptance criteria.

You can read about the engineering experience behind this work on our About page, and explore the technical depth in our 90-term glossary, which covers every major specification, fitting, method, and authority term that comes up in real estimates. For common questions about how we work, pricing, turnaround, and deliverables, see our FAQs.

Specialist spoke topics

Beyond the discipline pages above, we publish deep-dive pages on specific technical topics where the standard hub page can only summarise. Currently:

  • DTC Handle Bars — DTC 1124 (DICL, ≤6m) and DTC 1126 (MSCL, >6m), construction sequence, traffic control, and when alternatives are better
  • Manholes by DTC — DN1050 (DTC 2203), DN1200 (DTC 2200), DN1500, DN1800, and custom-designed manholes up to DN2400 and beyond. Walls, lifts, liners, and lid systems

More specialist spoke pages are added as the topic depth justifies them — manholes by DTC, sewer bypass and FIFM, trenchless installations, rising mains, and others.

Try the calculator

Want a rough sense of where a project might price before sending the drawings? The cost calculator on our home page shows how depth, pipe size, and ground conditions move the rate — in a simplified way that captures the principle behind real estimating.

Why specialist estimating

Most contractors have an in-house estimating function already. The question isn’t whether you have estimating capability — it’s whether building deep-utility estimating capability internally is the right use of your overhead. Our comparison ledger walks through what a full-time in-house estimator actually costs once you factor in leave, super, software, training, and overhead. For many contractors the math is straightforward.

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