HVAC Takeoff Software for Edmonton Mechanical Contractors
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Edmonton's mechanical contractors bid a mix that looks different from the rest of the province. The capital brings a steady run of institutional work: government buildings, post-secondary campuses and health facilities. North and east of the city, the Industrial Heartland adds process and petrochemical facilities with their own ventilation and make-up air demands. Add commercial fit-outs and multi-family work, and an estimator can face very different drawing sets in the same week.
DuctIQ is HVAC takeoff software built for that volume. Upload an Alberta mechanical PDF and it reads the plan sheets, measures supply, return and exhaust duct by size, counts fittings, and pulls equipment from the schedules into a takeoff you review line by line and export to Excel.
Institutional, industrial and northern-climate takeoffs
Edmonton sits further north than any other major Canadian city, and its mechanical sets reflect long, cold heating seasons: heat recovery ventilators and energy recovery on institutional buildings, heated make-up air for industrial bays, and insulated duct wherever runs pass through unconditioned space. Those details make a takeoff long by hand, because the same run carries insulation, liner and fittings that all need counting.
New buildings here are designed to the National Building Code, 2023 Alberta Edition, with the National Energy Code for Buildings 2020 for larger buildings, both in force since May 1, 2024. DuctIQ does not need a code-specific template: it reads the drawing itself, so it works on sets prepared by any Edmonton engineering firm, and the estimator keeps the final say on every quantity.
- Measures long institutional trunk runs and industrial make-up air duct at the sheet's scale.
- Keeps supply, return and exhaust separate by size, with each line traced to its sheet.
- Counts fittings and air devices, and reads equipment tags from the schedules.
- Exports to Excel or CSV for your pricing workbook.
From mechanical PDF to bid-ready takeoff in Edmonton
The workflow is the same whether you bid one trade or many: upload the mechanical set, let DuctIQ read and measure it, review the line items, and export. For a Edmonton estimator that means the rote hours of scaling and counting collapse into a short review, and the time you save goes back into pricing and bid strategy.
- Upload the mechanical PDF for your Alberta project — vector or scanned.
- AI traces the duct runs and separates supply, return, and exhaust by size.
- Fittings are counted and equipment is pulled from the schedules.
- Review the reviewable line items; low-confidence reads are flagged.
- Export to Excel or CSV straight into your pricing workbook.
Run your first takeoff free
Upload a mechanical PDF and get a reviewable ductwork, fittings, and equipment takeoff you can export to Excel. No credit card to try your first drawing.
Built by a practicing P.Eng and principal of an Ontario mechanical contracting firm, for the estimators at that firm.
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Frequently asked questions
Does DuctIQ work with Edmonton and Alberta mechanical drawings?
Yes. DuctIQ reads the mechanical PDF directly, imperial or metric, so it works on sets from any Edmonton engineering firm without an Alberta-specific template. It measures the duct, counts fittings and pulls equipment from the schedules.
Is it useful for Edmonton's institutional and Industrial Heartland work?
Those are the jobs where a takeoff takes longest by hand: long trunks, heat recovery and make-up air units, and many fittings. DuctIQ measures every run at scale and groups the quantities by system and size, so the estimator's time goes into checking and pricing rather than scaling.
How long does a takeoff take?
Most plan sheets process in minutes. You then review the line items, where low-confidence reads are flagged, and export to Excel or CSV.
Do I still check the numbers before I bid?
Always. Every quantity is a reviewable line traced to the sheet it came from. You confirm the takeoff against the drawings before it goes into your bid.