Sterling DCS Partners with Richardson to bring Cost Data to Sterling Customers
New partnership gives Sterling customers access to more than 66 years of established Richardson cost intelligence, with approximately 193,000 estimating line items covering process plant, industrial and general construction.
Sterling DCS has partnered with Cost Data On Line, Inc. to make the Richardson Process Plant Construction Estimating Database available to Sterling customers.
The partnership expands the Sterling cost data ecosystem, enabling organisations to subscribe to Richardson cost data and use this established estimating intelligence alongside their own corporate libraries and project data within Sterling.
Richardson has provided construction cost data for more than 66 years, with its data used by estimating professionals worldwide. Its Process Plant Construction Estimating Database contains approximately 193,000 line items, providing extensive information covering material and equipment costs, labour productivity, man hours and other estimating data.
Extensive Process Plant and Industrial Cost Intelligence
The Richardson database provides broad construction coverage while offering particular depth for process plant and complex industrial estimating.
The dataset spans general estimating, sitework and civil engineering, concrete, structural steel, mechanical systems, electrical systems, process piping, instrumentation and specialist process equipment.
Process and industrial content includes equipment and systems such as pumps, compressors, boilers, heat exchangers, cooling towers, pressure vessels, storage tanks, conveyors, mixers, separators, filtration equipment, wastewater treatment equipment, motors and turbines.
Specialist data also includes areas such as API 610 pumps, ASME Section VIII pressure vessel fabrication, API storage tanks, Distributed Control Systems and extensive process piping and instrumentation information.
This makes Richardson particularly relevant to estimating teams working across process plant, energy, oil and gas, chemical and petrochemical, manufacturing, water and wastewater, EPC and other complex engineering environments.
66+ Years of Cost Intelligence Meets Modern Cloud Estimating
For Sterling customers, the value of the partnership goes beyond gaining access to another source of cost data.
Richardson data can complement an organisation's existing Sterling libraries, allowing estimating teams to use established third party cost intelligence alongside their own rates, resources, historical information, project data and estimating methodologies.
This supports Sterling's wider strategy of creating an open cost and carbon estimating ecosystem where organisations can bring together trusted external datasets and their own estimating knowledge within a connected digital environment.
Rather than maintaining cost information across disconnected spreadsheets, databases and reference sources, estimating teams can build a more consistent and structured approach to how cost intelligence is managed and used across projects.
Helping Estimators Start with Established Data
Developing and maintaining comprehensive estimating libraries can require significant time and specialist knowledge.
Richardson positions its database around four core benefits: enabling estimators to start estimating without first creating an entire database, providing supporting information for line items, building confidence through an established dataset used worldwide for more than 66 years, and providing regular updates to material prices and man hours.
For Sterling customers, this provides an established foundation that can then be combined with organisation specific estimating intelligence and project requirements.
Richardson Database Subscriptions Through Sterling
The Richardson Process Plant Construction Estimating Database is available to Sterling customers through a separately licensed subscription.
Subscribers also receive online access to the Richardson Process Plant Estimating Manuals, while material prices and man hours within the dataset are updated as required.
The new partnership is part of Sterling's continued expansion of its cost and carbon data ecosystem, providing customers with greater choice over the professional datasets they use within their estimating workflows.
Interested in Richardson Process Plant Cost Data?
Existing Sterling customers and organisations considering Sterling can contact our sales team to discuss Richardson Library subscription options, Sterling licensing and how the data could support their estimating requirements.
