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If you’re an architect or architectural designer working on housing, and wondering how you’re going to manage the extra demands of carbon calculations, or why there hasn’t been a simple in-house cost estimating tool around for ages, wonder no more.

At Resilienz we’ve combined our long-proven cost estimating software with our passion for effective climate strategies to develop Clearcut™ and give you powerful, easy to use estimating functionality right in your studio.

Clearcut™ is a unique, ground-breaking tool to help designers find the carbon/cost sweetspot from the earliest concept stage.

In keeping with our ethos of climate commitment, Clearcut™ will operate via the Resilienz Climate Trust, a charitable trust we’ve set up to ensure that all proceeds are channelled back into further climate initiatives.

Want to join us on this journey? We’re starting beta testing with a first echelon (who can can get more info at the Beta Community). If you’re also keen to help develop this exciting product, please email Lindsay@resilienz.co.nz.

WE’RE TUNED INTO THE BUILDING SECTOR

Architects have told us they want an easy-to-use, construction-savvy tool to help them handle both the long-standing challenge of cost budgets and the new challenge of carbon budgets. That’s exactly what Clearcut™ offers.

Developed to put the best of both worlds at your fingertips, Clearcut™ combines time-tested formulae and current data with wide-ranging flexibility of design, site and materials inputs.

The initial focus will be on “up front carbon” for residential projects but will soon evolve to life cycle analysis for a wider range of projects.

LOGICAL, USER-FRIENDLY INPUT FORMATS

While Clearcut™ offers an incredible array of options and selections, we’ve used our experience to develop simple inputs in familiar formats, and with levels of detail layered to suit your concept stage and output requirements.

Input is driven by simple data entry ranging from dropdown menus offering zillions of combinations, to convenient side-calculation panels for trickier items.

“WHAT IF?” EXPLORATION OF OPTIONS

We know how important it is to the design process to be able to explore design options and then evaluate their impacts - environmental and cost - so we’ve developed Clearcut™ to provide simple ways to compare options.

EASY-TO-READ OUTPUTS

Clearcut™ has a range of straight forward graphics and tables so you can check at a glance, drill into detail, or compare different options.

These can inform your design process in ways not before available, while giving your clients insights to help guide their decisions

And we’re setting up Clearcut™ so that, when carbon targets are regulated, Clearcut™ can support evidence of compliance.