Improve and innovate with Sterling
Sterling can help you:
- Build robust estimates
- Prove and improve your carbon footprint
- Easily pivot your data
- Measure, audit and track quantities
- Reduce time and errors
- Customise views and use with ease
- Work collaboratively
- Meet organisational carbon footprint targets
- Integrate with various systems and data stores
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Sterling key features
Here are some of the key features you can expect and how Sterling will benefit you and your team
Cost Planning
Helping you to – Build robust estimates
- Top down or bottom up estimates
- Integrated resources with carbon values
- Rich customisation functionality
Easily develop your project estimate from the top down or bottom up within a simple to understand hierarchical structure, fully integrated with carbon and rich with functionality that professionals expect.
PAS 2080 Carbon Calculator
Helping you to – Prove and improve your carbon footprint
- Correlating resource cost and carbon value
- Instant carbon calculations
- Instant carbon reporting
With Cost & Carbon truly integrated at resource level, Sterling is able to instantly calculate and report carbon in accordance with PAS 2080*.
*Capital Carbon available today A1-5. Remaining whole life calculator coming soon!
Flexible Structures
Helping you to – Easily pivot your data
- Multiple standard structure mapping
- Custom structure mapping
- Sort data in a format you prefer
- Report specific data as you need
Map your cost plan to multiple standards structures including ICMS, BCIS, NRM1/2, CESMM, RMM1/2, MCHW or your own custom structure to view and report the information how you need to.
Smart Take-off
Helping you to – Measure, audit and track quantities
- Digital 2D and 3D take-off
- Quickly extract measurements and attributes for calculations
- Add additional details manually
- Full history and version control
Take advantage of our 2D/3D digital take-off tools to quickly extract useful measurements and attributes for later use in your calculations. Simply add other any useful quantities manually if you wish.
Apply rules, audit formulas and track changes as design develops with full history and version control.
Templates & Libraries
Helping you to – Reduce time and errors
- Build or import your own libraries
- Subscribe to additional measurement libraries
- Add additional details manually
- Manage unit rates in one place, linked to multiple structures and resource groups
Save time and effort through the use of unlimited template projects and data sets reducing the need to start from scratch on every project.
Sterling allows the user to build/import their own libraries or subscribe to a comprehensive library set consisting of ICMS, NRM1/2, RMM1 /2, CESMM4, Highways Form of Measurement, Uniclass2015, BCIS, SMM7.
Manage all your unit rates in one place, linked to multiple structures and resource groups saving you time maintaining multiple libraries.
Easy To Use
Helping you to – Get started
- Simple and clear user interface
- Customisable views
- Multi-pane docking
- Contactable support team
We have worked hard to make the user experience a happy one with a clear and fresh interface, customisable views, multiscreen pane docking and intuitive processes. All backed up by simple ‘how to’ video guides and friendly UK support if you actually need us.

Multi User
Helping you to – Work together
- Collaborative working
- Secure, profile-based permission
Allowing multiple team members to collaborate on a project to create, develop and review the estimate simultaneously via user profile based permissions.
Modern Technology
Helping you to – Future proof
- 100% renewable energy powered hosting
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Purpose built
- Scalable, stable, secure and open
Sterling is proudly built on next generation zero footprint technology. Purpose built without the limitations of legacy systems Sterling is scalable, stable, secure and open.
Hosting – powered by 100% renewable energy, big steps towards our green goals, so we can help you reach yours.


Let’s Connect
Helping you to – Integrate
- Integration with other systems and data stores guaranteed
Sterling is ready to play an important role in your company and is capable of sharing high quality project data with other systems and data stores via an open API.
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Cost & Carbon estimating
and forecasting
Sterling by Rapid DCS is a next generation, cloud-based, BIM ready, PAS 2080 compliant estimating and forecasting solution designed to help carbon conscious professionals design, plan, execute and operate more sustainably in the built environment market.
Built by and for industry professionals
Fully integrated
cost & carbon
PAS 2080
Compliant
2D and 3D smart
Take-off tools
Prove and improve your carbon footprint
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What drives us
Did you know that approximately 40% of annual global Greenhouse Gas emissions is generated by building and operating assets, while 28% of this is embodied carbon which can only be tracked and influenced at resource level not in high level cost plans. Professionals within the built environment sector are increasingly expected to recognise, replace, reduce or remove carbon rich activities/resources to meet Net Zero Carbon ambitions. We know the industry needs a reliable tool to help manage this – easily.
It is time to ‘Prove and Improve’ your carbon footprint with Sterling.