CONSTRUCTION INTELLIGENCE / NRM QUANTITY SURVEYING

NRM-Compliant Bills of Quantities, From Plans Directly

Send us your plan set. Mirage extracts and measures quantities into an NRM2-structured bill, every line traced to its source drawing, in 48 hours.

Would be Mirage's first UK NRM deployment, built on the same quantity-extraction agents already running at OCBM and John Cockerill.

THE REALITY

Measuring a plan set by hand against NRM2 rules, sheet by sheet, is slow and leaves quantities disconnected from the drawing they came from. When a revision lands, re-measuring from scratch is the default, and a stale quantity in the bill is rarely caught before it affects a cost plan.

WHAT MIRAGE DOES

From a plan set to a structured, traceable bill

01

Reads the plan set as it arrives

PDF, DWG, or scanned drawings: Mirage reads the plan set and measures against NRM2 rules automatically, without a reformatting pass first.

02

Traces every quantity to its source drawing

Each measured quantity is linked to the exact sheet and revision it came from, so a re-measure after a revision flags what actually changed instead of silently overwriting the previous figure.

03

Produces a bill ready to price

The structured bill exports in your working format, ready for your QS to apply rates, or connects to the document management and BIM tools already in place.

THE OUTPUT

Every quantity, measured and sourced

ItemDescriptionQuantityUnitSource
2.1.3In-situ concrete, ground floor slab310Sheet ST-02, rev C
3.4.1Structural steel frame, universal beams22tSheet ST-08, rev B
5.2.2Sheet AR-11 revision D shows 1,240 m² of internal blockwork against 1,190 m² in the prior revision. Flagged for QS confirmation before the bill is finalised.Blockwork, internal partitions1,240Sheet AR-11, rev D
8.1.4External wall insulation system680Sheet AR-19, rev A

PROOF

The quantity-extraction capability your first UK bill would run on

John Cockerill

80-90% reduction in measurement time, from 3-4 days down to a few hours

1 month → a few clicks for a manufacturing bill of materials

3 engineering disciplines running on the same platform

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OCBM

100% of extracted quantities traceable to a source drawing

3 agents in production, from measurement through to pricing

Dedicated agent cross-checks drawing revisions to surface discrepancies as they occur

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Ready to see your own plan set measured into a bill?

Send us a real, active plan set, and we'll show you exactly what the structured bill looks like.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Not on an NRM-structured bill specifically -- this would be Mirage's first UK NRM deployment. The quantity-extraction agents involved are the same ones already running in production at OCBM and John Cockerill, applied here to NRM2 measurement rules rather than a different market's bill format.

Primarily NRM2 (detailed measurement for building works, the format most cost plans and bills of quantities are built from). NRM1 order-of-cost estimates and NRM3 maintenance works measurement are read the same way once a project's rule set is confirmed with your team.

No. Mirage extracts and structures quantities from the plan set into NRM-compliant measurement; your QS still applies rates, judgement, and sign-off. It removes the manual measurement pass, not the professional decisions built on top of it.

Every quantity is linked to the specific sheet and revision it came from. When a new revision comes in, the bill is re-measured and any changed quantity is flagged against the previous figure, rather than silently overwritten.

PDF, DWG, and scanned drawings are all read the same way -- the measurement rules applied don't depend on the source file format.

Yes. The structured bill exports in your working format, or connects to the document management and BIM tools already in place on the project. No new system for the QS team to learn.

Under four weeks on average to a production deployment: indexing your measurement rules and drawing conventions first, then a parallel pilot on one active project's bill of quantities.

Pricing starts with a fixed-price pilot measured against one active project's plan set, so you see the bill it produces before committing to anything larger. After that, it moves to an annual subscription priced by volume, quoted in your first conversation with us.

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