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Sterling May 2026 Platform Update
This release introduces a significant set of enhancements focused on scalability, workflow optimisation, portfolio management, and performance across the Sterling platform. Key improvements include expanded multi-portfolio user support, major refinements to RMv2 and Cost Planning workflows, improved lifecycle and forecasting capabilities, and continued stability improvements across Takeoff and Bid Package management.
The update also delivers a broad range of backend and frontend fixes designed to improve reliability, responsiveness, and collaboration across estimating, commercial management, forecasting, and procurement workflows.
Core Platform
The Core platform continues to evolve with a strong focus on performance, scalability, and intelligent project data management. This release introduces major backend optimisation improvements that significantly enhance processing efficiency for large-scale project calculations and live collaboration workflows. Real-time updates are now more streamlined, improving responsiveness and reducing unnecessary data traffic across active project sessions.
Resource Manager also sees major advancement in this release, with expanded grouping, filtering, and bulk management capabilities designed to improve visibility and speed when working with complex cost structures. Lifecycle support has also been extended further across project duplication workflows, helping organisations standardise delivery processes across portfolios and programmes.
Delivered Enhancements
Enhanced live project update performance for cost item changes
Improved parallel processing for Bill of Quantity calculations
Dynamic structure path generation for improved data handling
Added Resource Manager grouping by family type
Enhanced bottom-line total calculations and recalculation workflows
Improved carbon data consistency across project calculations
Added bulk resource update capabilities within Resource Manager
Added lifecycle support when copying projects
Added zero-value bid item filtering controls
Improved Resource Manager filtering and navigation workflows
Enhanced quote and complex resource handling
Improved subcontractor workflow integration
Enhanced project tag and workflow management
Improved job prioritisation for high-priority takeoff processing
Improved quantity handling and synchronisation workflows
Enhanced unit data processing and calculation performance
Expanded support for unassigned resource handling
Improved model and Takeoff data synchronisation
Takeoff
The Takeoff module continues to improve accuracy, speed, and usability across both 2D and model-based measurement workflows. This release introduces enhancements that strengthen quantity management and improve the consistency of measurement data across estimating and cost planning workflows.
These updates provide greater confidence when managing manual quantities, revisions, and model-linked Takeoff data, helping teams reduce rework and improve estimating efficiency.
Delivered Enhancements
Improved 2D measurement data handling and persistence
Enhanced quantity management workflows
Improved Takeoff synchronisation with Cost Planning
Enhanced model-linked Takeoff consistency
Improved handling of manual measurement workflows
Estimating & Cost Planning
Estimating and Cost Planning workflows receive a substantial upgrade in this release, with major enhancements centred around Resource Manager and commercial visibility. Users can now benefit from improved grouping, filtering, and resource management capabilities, allowing faster navigation and better control of complex project structures.
The introduction of combined Cost and Carbon viewing settings also provides enhanced commercial and sustainability visibility within a single workflow, helping teams make more informed project decisions earlier in the planning process.
Delivered Enhancements
Added Resource Manager grouping by family type
Enhanced Resource Manager filtering capabilities
Added bulk resource management workflows
Improved commercial calculation visibility
Added combined Cost and Carbon viewing settings
Enhanced subcontractor pricing workflows
Improved proposal and quote management experiences
Enhanced complex resource handling and synchronisation
Improved structure visibility across Cost Planning workflows
Security & Identity
This release introduces one of the platform’s most significant identity and access management enhancements to date, with support for users operating across multiple portfolios. This capability provides greater flexibility for enterprise organisations managing multiple business units, frameworks, or regional delivery teams within a single environment.
Additional enhancements streamline onboarding, user administration, and portfolio management, making it easier for organisations to scale platform adoption while maintaining governance and operational control.
Delivered Enhancements
Added support for users across multiple portfolios
Improved EULA onboarding experience
Added bulk user import functionality
Added user transfer workflows between portfolios
Enhanced subcontractor portfolio management
Improved workflow and identity management handling
Enhanced enterprise user administration controls
Forecasting
Forecasting workflows continue to evolve with improved usability and navigation enhancements designed to support faster commercial planning and programme management. Updates in this release focus on improving search performance, toolbar usability, and workflow consistency across forecasting and programme interfaces.
These improvements help teams interact more efficiently with forecasting datasets and improve overall planning productivity.
Delivered Enhancements
Enhanced Forecasting search experience
Improved toolbar usability and responsiveness
Improved workflow consistency across Forecasting and Programme views
Enhanced user interface responsiveness and navigation
Bid Packages
Bid Package workflows have been refined to improve procurement efficiency and package management across large commercial projects. Enhancements in this release focus on improving package library usability, navigation, and interaction workflows for estimating and subcontractor engagement teams.
These updates help simplify package management while improving visibility and interaction across procurement datasets.
Delivered Enhancements
Enhanced Bid Package library workflows
Improved package grid usability and navigation
Improved package expansion and interaction workflows
Enhanced subcontractor engagement workflows
Improved procurement data visibility and management
Lifecycle & Carbon
Lifecycle and carbon management capabilities continue to expand, with new project lifecycle support and improved environmental data consistency introduced in this release. Teams can now retain lifecycle structures more effectively when duplicating projects, supporting greater consistency across programme delivery and template management workflows.
Carbon calculation workflows have also been further refined to improve reporting consistency and sustainability visibility across commercial planning activities.
Delivered Enhancements
Added lifecycle support when copying projects
Improved carbon calculation consistency
Enhanced environmental product data handling
Added combined Cost and Carbon visibility settings
Improved sustainability reporting workflows
Frontend & User Experience
This release delivers a broad range of user experience improvements focused on responsiveness, usability, and workflow consistency across the platform. Updates improve navigation, visual consistency, revision handling, and interaction performance across estimating, forecasting, procurement, and model review workflows.
Together, these enhancements contribute to a faster, more streamlined platform experience for project teams working across multiple disciplines.
Delivered Enhancements
Enhanced Cost and Carbon viewing experience
Improved revision upload workflows
Improved layout responsiveness and grid behaviour
Enhanced 3D viewer usability
Improved toolbar search interactions
Enhanced Forecasting and Programme workflow consistency
Improved package library usability
Enhanced Takeoff interaction workflows
