The Cost Database is a powerful tool that serves as your central source of truth for project estimates.

With the Cost Database, you can:

• Quickly answer pricing questions using your historical budget data
• Compare current estimates with historical budgets
• Identify financial trends across your project budgets over time

The Cost Database uses data from the Budgeting Tool. When you create a project budget milestone, the budget for that milestone will be available in the Cost Database.

Overview

To begin, navigate to the Cost Database from the main menu under Analytics.

The Cost Database will pull contract values, GSF, NRSF, Units, and any relevant budget data from your project estimates.

On the left-hand side of the page, you can filter your projects and budgets by the following categories:

• Market Sector
• Milestone Date
• Milestone Phase

Compare Project Budgets

Buildr enables you to compare any number of project budgets to assess cost averages, ensure accurate pricing, identify errors, and analyze financial trends in your portfolio.

To compare project budgets, select the projects to compare from the Cost Database. Then, click "Compare Projects" at the bottom of the page.

Buildr will calculate the average values and costs of the project budgets you have selected, as well as display each project's detailed estimates for your team to cross-reference.

Note that if a project has multiple milestones, the Cost Database will always use the most recent milestone.