Estimating Databases
Aside from the Sage Timberline Office core Estimating application, which include sample databases with standard items and customizable estimating factors, you can also add industry-specific estimating databases.

Sage Timberline Office estimating databases contain thousands of items and many assemblies you can use right away — with the added capability of incorporating your company's estimating procedures and policies as they relate to unique items, formulas, assemblies, and productivity and conversion factors.

Commercial Knowledgebase
The Sage Timberline Office Commercial Knowledgebase contains pre-built models and comprehensive Smart Assemblies backed by RSMeans® cost data. Developed for use exclusively with Sage Timberline Office estimating software, nothing compares to the way it allows owners and commercial contractors to prepare capital budgets, conceptual estimates, and even detailed estimates. Only minimal database building or fine-tuning is required. Eliminating the often tedious and time-consuming process of individual item takeoff, the Knowledgebase's built-in intelligence prompts you for only the data needed to calculate quantities and costs for a given assembly, such as a wall, or a model for an entire building. You simply respond to a list of questions and all the construction details and unit costs are immediately available for your review, giving you the ability to quickly perform what-if calculations or provide an instant sanity check. The process required to generate estimates or budgets is as easy as "filling in the blanks." Simply input your data and the software logic updates the information in response to all your prior answers. Conceptual and detailed estimates or budgets can be generated in a matter of minutes.

RSMeans databases
Choose only the items that are appropriate for your company's work. Fifteen different databases offer you everything from site work items to electrical components. Included with each database is the Means Integrator to give you the ready option to subscribe to Means price updates. Plus, choose from crew-based, hourly, or unit-cost methods of pricing.

Pre-Construction Databases
Put the labor, material, and equipment information you need at your fingertips to create fast, accurate conceputal estimates. Assembly rate tables store a variety of numbers to cover the work you perform in different geographic areas. Assemblies give you the flexibilty to easily handle scope changes, additions, and value engineering alterations that come your way at any stage of the project. Thirteen cost assemblies to choose from, including below grade parking, mid/high-rise fitout, hotel suite, and much more.

Commercial Concrete/Masonry Database
Estimate concrete beams in one step. Take a rectangular concrete beam, for instance, and simply enter one set of dimensions and the assembly will generate labor and material costs for the formwork, concrete, snap ties, and more. Over 1,500 items, 500 formulas, 84 Smart Assemblies are included, from concrete foundations, slabs, walls, and foundations to specialty masonry.

Commercial Drywall Database
Three dozen Smart Assemblies, 1,600 items, and 13 bill of material classes are included. Take off for an interior metal stud wall is as easy as it gets. Simply input your dimensions and the assembly will generate labor and material costs for the studs, top and bottom track, pins, bracing, and sheetrock.

Commercial GC Database
Choose from 250 Smart Assemblies, more than 6,700 items, 1,600 formulas, and 120 bill of material classes. Included are excavation and sitework and assemblies for stucco, drywall, acoustical, to dozens of concrete and structural components. Estimate a tilt-up wall and figure out labor and material costs for the concrete, formwork, lift inserts, and rebar in one step.

Commercial Highway/Heavy Database
Nearly 70 Smart Assemblies for piping, clearing and grubbing, bases, paving, concrete and more are included. Takeoffs for asphalt paving don't get much easier than this. Choose from 1,700 items, 530 formulas, and 67 bill of material classes.

Commercial HVAC Database
The database for ductwork, fittings, hangers, and all the details that round out the job. More than 12,000 items and 200 formulas are included in the database, plus 161 Smart Assemblies and categories that include pipe system details and budgets, heat generation and transfer, air distribution, and refrigeration.

Commercial Plumbing Database
More than 16,000 items and 187 Smart Assemblies, which include pipe systems and budgets, fixtures, and accessories. Speed up your takeoffs by choosing from more than 150 formulas, and 52 bill of material classes.

Commercial Residential Landscaping Database
Assemblies for landscaping, irrigation, drainage, and paving, which include 1,100-plus items, more than 190 formulas, and 28 assemblies to choose from. Do a takeoff on irrigation system piping for labor and material on the pipe, trenching, and backfill all at once.

Commercial Site Utilities Database
Included are assemblies that account for moving rock and earth, pavements and services, drainage, sewer, water, and site electrical. More than 80 Smart Assemblies and 76 bill of material classes to choose from.

Commercial Steel Database
Input the dimensions for your channel beams and generate labor and material costs for the plates, angles, stiffeners, clips, drill time, and surface prep. Included are 8,900 items, 318 bill of material classes, 52 Smart Assemblies for W-shape columns, and channel, S-shape, and W-shape beams, and all their connections.

Electrical Commercial/Industrial Database
Included are 15,000 items, 700-plus formulas, and 453 Smart Assemblies for everything from conduit & copper CU wire, safety switch disconnects, cable trays, light fixtures, motor and light controllers and starters, a full range of wire and cable, and much more.

Industrial HVAC Database
More than 12,500 items, 76 bill of material classes, and 170 Smart Assemblies. Dozens of categories cover pipe system details and budgets, heat generation and transfer, air distribution, and refrigeration.

Industrial Process & Plant Database
More than 21,600 items, 283 Smart Assemblies, and 345 bill of material classes to take off everything from turbine pumps with concrete pads to the right finish. Dozens of assemblies for concrete, masonry, metals, and demolition and sitework.

Industrial Process Piping Database
Input the dimensions and the pipe, insulation, tees, caps, couplings, lab joints, and everything else completes the picture. Choose from assemblies for a full range of pipe — duriron, copper, plastic, stainless, carbon, and specialty. Plus, assemblies for demolition and sitework. A total of 19,600 items, 83 Smart Assemblies, and 94 bill of material classes are included.