Anyone is welcome to download our evaluation version.  Please enter your contact details and one of our sales staff will contact you regarding instructions for downloading the evaluation version.  We promise to never reveal your contact information to any 3rd party.(privacy policy)

The installation will allow you to install SQL Server 2005 Express if you do not already have SQL Server on your network.  Please see the section below for more information on SQL Server.

This version is identical to our current release, except that we have provided you with an evaluation login for data access.

The evaluation login limits the data retrieval (manhours & physical properties):

• Piping is limited to carbon steel (CS) and sizes < 150mm (or 6 inches)
• Valves to sizes <= 80mm (or 3 inches)
• Structural to sizes <= 300mm (or 12 inches)

We have written a tutorial to guide you through the first steps of using our system.  The tutorial is also included in our standard installation.

Tutorial [600 KB, Adobe Acrobat PDF]

We have written an installation guide to assist you in making some decisions when installing and first administrating the software.

Installation Guide [300 KB, Adobe Acrobat PDF]

CostEng Estimating is a true multi user system and uses Microsoft SQL Server as its database storage engine.  This is an enterprise class database system, and that ensures that you get the best reliability and flexibility when deploying your system.  If your organisation has a license for Microsoft SQL Server, then you can install the database onto your existing SQL Server.  If you do not wish to purchase SQL Server, then you can use the free version of SQL Server, known as SQL Server Express.  SQL Server Express limits you to database sizes of 4GB, but in almost all circumstances SQL Server Express will be an excellent solution.

For more information on SQL Server visit www.microsoft.com/sql.  Visit here for more information on SQL Server Express

CostEng Estimating also runs on the Microsoft .Net Framework.  The installation will check to see if you need to install the .Net framework as the framework may have already been installed by other applications.  If the framework is not installed, then our installer will download it from Microsoft and install it.

If you would like more information on the technical details then please email support@costeng.com