AI Ductwork Estimating Software
Turn duct quantities into a bid you can defend.
Measuring the ductwork is only the first half of the job. The second half is pricing it: sheet metal by gauge and weight, shop hours against field hours, hangers and seal and insulation, markup, and a summary the GC can actually read.
Canaveral keeps all of that on a real data layer instead of a spreadsheet nobody wants to own. Your price book, your labor rates, and your assemblies are versioned, shared across the team, and applied consistently to every estimate that leaves the office.
Looking for the measurement side of the workflow? See ductwork takeoff software.
Your current ductwork pricing process...
How Canaveral prices ductwork
Your current ductwork pricing process...
Pricing that goes stale between bids
Galvanized moves, your supplier sends a new sheet, and the spreadsheet you priced last month is already wrong. Nobody catches it until the job is bought and the margin is gone.
How Canaveral prices ductwork
A live material price book
Price ductwork the way your shop actually buys it: by gauge, by weight, coil versus flat sheet, galvanized versus stainless versus aluminum. Update a price once and every open estimate that uses it reprices immediately.
Your current ductwork pricing process...
Shop hours and field hours priced as one number
Fabrication and installation are different crews, different rates, and different risks, but most estimates collapse them into a single blended labor figure that hides where the job actually makes or loses money.
How Canaveral prices ductwork
Separate fabrication and installation labor
Carry shop hours and field hours on their own rate tables, then adjust for the things that really move install cost, like building height, ceiling access, system complexity, crew size, and shift premiums.
Your current ductwork pricing process...
The accessories that eat the margin
Hangers, seal, insulation, turning vanes, access doors, flex connections. Each one is small on its own, but together they're often the difference between a winning bid and an unprofitable one, and they're usually the first things to get missed.
How Canaveral prices ductwork
Accessories that ride along with the duct
Attach hanger spacing, sealant, insulation, and connection hardware to the duct itself as an assembly. When the quantity changes, everything attached to it reprices too, so none of it has to live in someone's head.
Your current ductwork pricing process...
Addenda that force a full re-price
A revision drops two weeks before the bid date. Re-pricing by hand means rebuilding the summary, re-checking every markup, and hoping the version you send is the version you meant to send.
How Canaveral prices ductwork
Reprice what actually changed
Revisions update the affected quantities and flow straight through to cost, markup, and the bid summary. You get to review what changed and what it cost you, which is a much shorter job than rebuilding the estimate from scratch.
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A bid is only as good as the cost model under it.
Rough linear footage times a blended unit rate will get you a number, but it won't tell you whether that number is right, and it won't help you work out why you lost the job.
Canaveral prices sheet metal by gauge and weight, splits shop fabrication from field installation, and carries hangers, seal, insulation, and connection hardware as assemblies tied to the duct run, so nobody has to remember them as separate line items.
Markup and overhead sit on top as their own layer, so you can see the bare cost, the loaded cost, and the submitted number separately, and adjust the one you actually meant to adjust.
When it's time to submit, build the report to match how the GC or owner wants the numbers broken out. Every figure traces back to a quantity, a rate, and a decision you can point at.
Ready to price ductwork with a real cost model?
Start your free trial and see how Canaveral turns duct quantities into a priced, submittable bid without the spreadsheet handoff in the middle.
Frequently asked questions
What is AI ductwork estimating software?
Ductwork estimating software turns measured duct quantities into a priced, submittable bid. It applies material costs by gauge and weight, fabrication and installation labor rates, accessories and assemblies, markup, and overhead, then produces the summary you hand to the GC. In Canaveral, AI speeds up the measurement that feeds the estimate, while the pricing layer underneath stays fully auditable.
How is ductwork estimating different from ductwork takeoff?
Takeoff answers how much: linear feet of duct, fitting counts, pounds of sheet metal. Estimating answers how much it costs: material pricing, shop and field labor hours, accessories, markup, and risk. They're sequential steps in the same workflow, and Canaveral does both in one project, so quantities from takeoff flow directly into pricing with no re-entry or export step.
How is ductwork material priced?
Ductwork is priced by weight and gauge instead of a generic linear foot rate. Canaveral calculates SMACNA-compliant weights from the duct dimensions, gauge, and material, then applies your own price book, including the coil versus flat sheet distinction, scrap and waste factors, and separate rates for galvanized, stainless, and aluminum.
Can I separate shop fabrication labor from field installation labor?
Yes. Fabrication and installation carry independent rate tables, so shop hours and field hours are priced and reported separately. Installation rates can be adjusted for building height, ceiling access, system complexity, crew composition, and site conditions, which is where most of the variance in ductwork labor actually lives.
How are hangers, insulation, and sealant accounted for?
They're carried as assemblies attached to the ductwork. Hanger spacing, sealant, insulation, turning vanes, and connection hardware are tied to the duct run, so when a quantity changes the associated accessories reprice with it.
What happens to my estimate when an addendum is issued?
Revisions update the affected quantities and carry through to cost, markup, and the bid summary automatically. You review what changed and what it cost you instead of rebuilding the estimate, which is where re-pricing errors usually creep in.