InEight

By audience

Civil Engineering

• Suits heavy-civil and infrastructure work where quantities, earthworks and unit rates drive the estimate.
• Tracks long-duration schedules and progress claims on public infrastructure programmes.
• Holds design and construction documentation for rail, road and utility projects.

Estimator

• Builds detailed cost estimates in InEight Estimate against cost and resource libraries and historical benchmark data.
• Carries the accepted bid estimate straight into the job's cost budget without re-keying.
• Imports quantities measured in Bluebeam rather than retyping takeoff figures.

Executive Leadership

• Reviews portfolio cost, schedule and risk exposure across all active projects.
• Watches forecast-at-completion trends to catch overruns before they land.
• Standardises project-controls data so reporting is consistent across business units.

General Contracting

• Runs estimating, scheduling, cost control and document control on one platform instead of stitching point tools together.
• Standardises cost coding and workflows across a portfolio of jobs.
• Captures field quantities and daily progress to drive forecasts rather than month-end guesses.

Owner/Developer

• Governs capital programme cost and schedule across a portfolio of projects.
• Holds the document system of record for handover, regulatory and audit requirements.
• Compares contractor-reported forecasts against the owner's own controls baseline.

Project Engineer

• Runs RFI, submittal and transmittal workflows through InEight Document with a full audit trail.
• Maintains version control and distribution for drawings and specifications.
• Reviews and marks up documents in Bluebeam Studio without leaving the document system of record.

Project Manager

• Tracks cost, forecast-at-completion and earned value against the budget in InEight Control.
• Runs change orders and their cost and schedule impact through a controlled workflow.
• Sees field progress and document status against the same project record as the financials.

Scheduler

• Builds and maintains CPM schedules in InEight Schedule, importing from and syncing with Primavera P6.
• Runs risk-adjusted scheduling with Monte Carlo analysis to test durations against contingency.
• Ties schedule activities to cost items so progress drives the cost forecast.

By phase

Concept & Planning

• Builds conceptual and parametric estimates for capital planning before design is fixed.
• Establishes the controls baseline and risk profile for the programme.

Pre-Construction

• Produces the detailed bid estimate and the CPM schedule behind it.
• Sets the cost coding and budget structure the job will be tracked against.
• Imports Bluebeam quantities and Primavera schedules into the bid.

Construction

• Tracks cost, earned value, forecasts and change through execution.
• Captures field quantities, daily progress and QA/QC records.
• Runs document control, RFIs and submittals as the project system of record.

Closeout & Operations

• Compiles handover and turnover documentation out of the document system of record.
• Closes out final change orders and reconciles the forecast against actuals.
• Retains the project audit trail for compliance and claims defence.