Solutions

A tool that fits your role.

Whether you design, coordinate or build, Tropic helps you stay on track.

By role

Who it's for

MEP engineering firms

Structure your trades, plan by zone and steer each job's economics without piling up spreadsheets.

Contractors & installers

Coordinate field teams, track real progress and anticipate overlaps between trades.

Project management

Keep an overview of the schedule, share information with the right people and smooth coordination.

Fire safety & compliance

Track regulatory deadlines, work permits and compliance items on your sensitive operations.

By need

What you can do

Plan

Build a clear schedule by zone and level, shared in real time.

Coordinate

Align every trade and stakeholder on one source of information.

Steer the budget

Track project economics per job, from committed to actual.

Secure access

Give everyone the right access with roles and permissions.

Work anywhere

A PWA installed on desktop, tablet or mobile, right to the site.

Save time

Less re-keying, fewer back-and-forths, more time on what matters.

In practice

Three situations you will recognise

Features rarely speak for themselves. Here is what they are for, concretely, in a week at a design office.

Answering a tender

The tender pack lands on a Friday, the deadline is three weeks out, and the bill of quantities runs to twelve hundred lines. Without a tool, you re-key the structure into a spreadsheet, paste prices from three different files, and spot the coefficient error the night before submission. With a structured price database and a direct import, the time goes where it matters: checking quantities, adjusting installation times, deciding the margin.

Knowing who is available

A client asks whether you can take on a job in March. An honest answer means knowing each engineer's real workload, the leave already booked and the deliverables already committed. When that information lives in three separate schedules, you answer on instinct. When it is consolidated, you answer in thirty seconds — and you don't commit to a month that is already full.

Seeing an overrun coming

A job priced at forty days of design work consumes sixty. The problem is not the overrun: it is finding out at invoicing. By comparing the budget per stage with actual progress, the gap shows up while it can still be corrected — you reassign, you negotiate a variation, or at the very least you see it coming.

Getting started

How we begin

1

We look at how you work

Thirty minutes on your projects, your stages, your actual habits. Not a generic demo.

2

We bring your data across

Price database, bills of quantities, team lists: whatever already exists imports from Excel.

3

We set your parameters

Stages, business units, roles, coefficients: the tool aligns to your organisation, not the reverse.

4

You start on a real job

A live project rather than a sandbox. It is the only way to know whether the tool holds up.

Frequently asked questions

What we get asked most

Do we need to install software?
No. Tropic applications are PWAs: they run in the browser and install in one click on desktop, tablet or mobile, with no app store and no involvement from your IT department.
Can we bring our existing Excel files across?
Yes. Price databases and bills of quantities import as .xlsx, and exports are produced in Word and Excel. The goal is not to cut you off from Excel, but to stop doing in it what it handles badly.
Do we have to take the whole range?
No. Tropic Planning and Tropic Estimating work independently. Many teams start with whichever addresses the most painful problem, then add the other.
Who sees what within the team?
Each organisation only accesses its own data, and roles define precisely who can view, edit or administer. An individual only sees what concerns them.
Can it be used on site?
Yes. The application installs on tablet and mobile, with an interface adapted to small screens — useful for checking a schedule or a deadline during a site visit.
How long before we are up and running?
It depends mainly on the volume of data to bring across. The interface itself is picked up in a single session; it is the import and configuration of your database that determine the real timeline.

Your role, your tool

Tell us how you work: we'll show you how Tropic adapts.