Construction Case Study
Automated Quantity Takeoff for Estimating
Client Profile: Commercial Construction & Trade Estimating Practice
The Engineering Challenge
Manual trade counting of doors, windows, fixtures, and wall linear footage was bottlenecking bid production and limiting monthly bid capacity.
Input Drawings
Multi-page architectural, structural, and trade blueprint sets.
Output Delivered
Excel Bill of Quantities + JSON estimating payload
AI & Technical Solution
Multi-class object detection, automated scale calibration, linear measurement tracing, and consolidated BoQ table generation.
Tech Stack Deployed
Ultralytics Vision PipelineOpenCV Image FiltersPyMuPDF Text EnginePandas Data AggregatorExcel Export SDK
Measured Results & Impact
1Cut estimator takeoff turnaround time by 75%.
2Processed 500+ plan sets with 0 missed door count errors.
3Increased monthly client bidding capacity by 3.5x without hiring additional estimators.