A Stronger Foundation for Cost Clarity and Performance

Overview

We are pleased to introduce our first major release of 2025, focused on improving performance, usability, and trust in your project data. This update strengthens the core estimating and take off experience, while laying the groundwork for more advanced portfolio and reporting capabilities.

This release is centred on helping commercial teams move faster, reduce friction, and gain clearer insight into where cost is truly sitting across their projects.

Key highlights

• A new Resource Manager v2 experience delivering a cleaner and more reliable breakdown of cost at every level
• Resources by Structure view to quickly identify where spend is concentrated across the work breakdown structure
• Faster loading of large projects through improved paging of cost items, structures, and prefab data
• Improved subcontractor and delivery partner views so external parties only see relevant work packages
• Stronger handling of shared resources across libraries to maintain consistency in rates and definitions
• Enhanced foundations for portfolio reporting through improved data structures and tagging
• Early improvements to 3D take off grids to support more practical model based workflows
• Improved handling of BIM dimension fields for more accurate measurement
• Increased reliability in take off processing to reduce timeouts and stalled sessions
• Refinements to navigation and grid layouts for a smoother user experience

This release represents an important step forward in making Sterling faster, clearer, and more dependable for day to day commercial workflows.