Costs stay in the picture
Estimate a building from Addis Ababa direct cost rates, then follow BOQs, variations and payment certificates as the work moves.
Try the free estimator
Construction management, built for Ethiopia.
Cost estimates, BOQs, drawings, site reports and approvals in one workspace, so your office and site teams work from the same information.
- Backed up every day, with seven days of point-in-time recovery
- Every change recorded in an audit trail
- Hosted on Google Cloud
Less searching. More building.
The records a project depends on, in one place your whole team can reach.
Questions become decisions
RFIs, submittals and site instructions live together, so everyone can see who is reviewing what and what was decided.
The next four weeks, planned
Build the programme, pull the coming weeks into a lookahead, and track what is holding work back.
The site stays connected
Daily reports, drawings, photos and quality records are filed against the right project, from a phone on site or a desk in the office.
One record for everyone on the project
- Contractors
- Plan the coming weeks, report from site, and prepare payment certificates and claims from the same records.
- Consultants
- Answer RFIs, review submittals and record inspections, with a clear trail of who decided what.
- Owners
- Follow progress, costs and decisions on your project without waiting for someone to send a report.
Made for how projects run in Ethiopia
- Amharic and English
- Switch the interface between Amharic and English at any time.
- Ethiopian calendar
- Dates can be read in the Ethiopian calendar as well as the Gregorian one.
- Priced in birr
- Estimates use Addis Ababa direct cost rates, and invoices are issued in birr.
- Access by role
- Contractors, consultants and owners see only the projects and records their role allows.
Free tools, no account needed
For anyone planning or running a building project in Ethiopia.
- What will your building cost?Enter the type, floors and area, set your own profit and contingency, and download the bill of quantities free in PDF or Excel.
- Addis Ababa price indexMonthly property asking prices and how the trend moves building estimates, with a free monthly email.
- Material price boardWhat cement, rebar, blocks and sand cost now, reported by people in the trade.
- Find a professionalContractors, consultants, engineers and suppliers in Addis Ababa. Listing is free.
- Calculators for site and QS staffConcrete, rebar, unit rates, payment certificates and claim deadlines, each showing its working.
Questions teams ask first
Where should our team start?
With one project. In the demo we look at your team’s roles and choose the workflows to start with.
Can we use it on site?
Yes. It works on phones and tablets, and supported field records can be drafted without a connection and sent when you are back online.
How does pricing work?
It depends on your projects, team size and storage. Request a demo and we will propose a plan for your company.
See it with your own projects
Tell us who you are and we will arrange a walkthrough by email.
- You send your details.
- We walk through the workflows your team needs.
- You choose a first project to run in EthioBuild.