Win construction work before it goes to tender

Every Swiss building project is published as a building application — months before anything happens on site. Whoever approaches the owner then is quoting ahead of the competition.

Every contract starts as a building application

Before there is a crane, there is an official publication: who is building, what, and in which municipality. We read the cantonal gazettes and the municipal publication organs every day and turn them into a searchable feed — with the owner, the address and a link to the original publication.

For a trades business that means: you learn about every new build, conversion and renovation in your catchment area on publication day — not once the profile poles are up and the contracts awarded.

The window between publication and ground-breaking

Several months usually pass between application and construction start: objection period, permit, execution planning. That window is when the owner decides who does the electrics, who supplies the heating, who puts up the scaffolding. Whoever calls at the ground-breaking is too late.

New builds — every trade gets awarded, from excavation to fit-out
Conversions and renovations — smaller volumes, faster awards, often without a general contractor: the direct line to the owner counts double
Demolitions — the earliest signal that something new is coming to an address

How you work with the radar

Set a search agent on your area and your project types — say, «renovations in the district of Uster»
Get the alert on publication day, with the owner, the architect and the original publication
Place your quote while nothing has been awarded yet
Excel export for scheduling and the weekly planning in the office

Which businesses this pays off for

Electrical, heating/ventilation/plumbing, roofing and façades, scaffolding, painting and plastering, landscaping, kitchens and interior fit-out — wherever work is awarded directly by the owner or the architect. A single won contract pays for the subscription many times over.

Larger firms feed the stream straight into their costing or CRM software — see Integration & interfaces.

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