Trade Subcontractors — take-offs, setout and shop drawings
Most trade subcontractors have no drawing office and one estimator, if that. We give trades the technical seat a head contractor takes for granted: take-offs, setout and shop drawings, claims and payroll.
Trade subcontractors — at a glance
- Segment: Trade subcontractors.
- What NexGenus provides: Most trade subcontractors have no drawing office and one estimator, if that. We give trades the technical seat a head contractor takes for granted: take-offs, setout and shop drawings, claims and payroll.
- Services used by this segment: Cladding Setout Pack; HVAC duct detailing; Trade estimating; Contract administration; BIM & coordination; Business support.
- Delivered by: qualified engineers and experienced detailers in Ho Chi Minh City and Da Nang, trained to Australian standards and working Australian hours.
- Sign-off: every technical deliverable is prepared for, and under the direction of, the client's registered practitioner and reviewed in Melbourne.
- How to start: a fixed-fee pilot, converting to a dedicated seat on the second engagement.
The technical seat most trades never had
Cladding and render contractors get a project-specific setout pack drawn to the manufacturer's rules and coordinated to the frame. Mechanical contractors get fabrication-ready duct detailing on Autodesk Fabrication and Revit MEP. Electrical, framing and lining contractors get take-offs, coordination drawings and back office. All of it prepared under your direction, in your systems, on your hours.
Where a state reserves design work to a licensed trade — Victoria reserves plumbing design work to licensed plumbers, for example — we draft to a consultant's design for coordination only and do not perform the design.
What you are probably dealing with
- No drawing office. Setout done from the manufacturer's manual on site, paid for in cuts and callbacks.
- One estimator, or none. Tenders priced at night by the owner.
- Claims discipline. Payment schedules and claims missed under the reformed Victorian Act.
- Payroll under awards. Construction awards, allowances and Payday Super, every payday.
Services for you
Cladding Setout Pack
Panel setout, schedules, cut lists, fixings and junctions for Hebel, Masterwall and other systems. Fixed fee.
ServiceHVAC duct detailing
Fabrication-ready duct and mechanical shop drawings on Autodesk Fabrication and Revit MEP.
ServiceTrade estimating
Take-offs and tender pricing structured the way your suppliers quote.
ServiceContract administration
Claims to the statutory dates, variation registers, EOT notices.
ServiceBIM & coordination
Revit MEP and coordination drawings for mechanical and electrical.
ServiceBusiness support
Payroll under construction awards, accounts, licence and insurance tracking.
ServiceCladding installers
Setout to Hebel or Masterwall modular rules, panel schedules and cut lists, fixing and junction details, compliance evidence sheet. Twenty to sixty hours for a mid-rise project, at a fixed fee.
Mechanical contractors
Duct and pipe shop drawings, spooling and cut sheets on Autodesk Fabrication, coordination in Navisworks, as-builts and O&M drawings.
Electrical, framing and lining
Take-offs and tender build-ups, coordination drawings, claims to the statutory dates, and payroll under construction awards.
Your questions
We are a cladding installer with no drafter. What do we get?
A Cladding Setout Pack: panel setout to the manufacturer's modular rules, elevations with a panel schedule and cut list, fixing details coordinated to the frame, junction details and a compliance evidence sheet. Fixed fee. Fewer site cuts, cleaner procurement, fewer certifier questions.
Do you do electrical estimating?
Take-offs and tender build-ups for electrical contractors in your template, with drafting and back office alongside. Ask us about a pilot on one tender.
Do you do plumbing design?
No. Victoria reserves plumbing design work to licensed plumbers. We draft hydraulic services to a consultant's design for coordination only.
How do we start?
A scoping call, then a fixed-fee pilot: one cladding setout pack, one level of ductwork, or one tender take-off, reviewed by you before you commit to a seat.
Send us one elevation.
Cladding installers: send an architectural set and name the system. Mechanical contractors: send one level of ductwork. Fixed fee, agreed turnaround.