Industries
Built for the trades that build for builders.
SubbieTRAC is for commercial subcontractors — the businesses that win a package of work from a builder, a developer or an asset owner, deliver it on someone else’s site, and get paid by progress claim. Thirty-five trades below share that shape of work. The platform is built around the shape, not the trade.
Who you work for
Any client. The same commitments.
Most of the work comes from builders, but not all of it. Whoever is paying, the engagement has the same parts — a scope, a programme, claims, variations and retention.
Head contractors and builders
Most packages come this way: tender the scope, sign the subcontract, work to their programme, claim monthly, and wait on retention until defects are closed out.
Developers and owner-builders
Engaged directly, often design and construct. Fewer layers between you and the decision, and the same claims, variations and retention to manage.
Government, councils and utilities
Panel and period contracts, tender portals, compliance documents on every submission, and payment terms that make cash flow the thing to watch.
Facility and asset managers
Upgrades, fit-outs and maintenance on buildings that are already in use — works orders, out-of-hours programmes, and a client who owns the building for the next thirty years.
Architects, consultants and project managers
They specify and administer rather than pay: RFIs, submittals and shop drawings go through them, and your claim is certified by them before it is paid.
Other subcontractors
A specialist scope inside a larger package — you are the subcontractor to a subcontractor, and to your people on site you are the builder.
Structure & shell
First on site. Measured against the programme.
You are on the critical path from day one, and the last to be forgiven for a delay. Claims are tied to pours, lifts and stages; plant and labour are most of the cost; a wet week is a variation or an extension of time — if it is written down.
How SubbieTRAC fits
- Measure off the structural set — area, linear and count, to scale — and price the package as you measure
- Extensions of time and site instructions recorded as correspondence against the job, with the day labour sheets behind them
- Progress claims by stage, retention held against PC and DLP dates and claimed when it falls due
- Plant hire and materials as purchase orders and bills against the job; the roster puts the crew on the right site each morning
- High-risk work tickets and licences tracked per worker, uploaded from their phone
The trades
- Demolition
- Short jobs, big plant, one-line claims. Quote it, roster it, bill the hire against it and invoice before the paperwork outlives the job.
- Earthworks
- Cut and fill priced off the drawings, plant and haulage as bills against the job, and the wet days recorded as the EOTs they are.
- Concrete
- Claims tied to pours. Measure slabs and walls in square metres, price the pump and the crew, and claim each stage as it is poured.
- Reinforcement
- Tonnes off the schedule, fixed to the pour dates. Supplier deliveries as bills against the job, and the variation when the schedule changes.
- Structural Steel
- Shop drawings as submittals, lead times that set the programme, and progress claims by fabrication, delivery and erection.
- Masonry
- Brick and block quantities from the material calculator, priced per square metre with the labour behind it, claimed by lift.
- Metalwork
- Balustrades, stairs and fixings — measured, drawn, submitted for approval, and claimed as each piece goes in.
Envelope
Measured in square metres. Promised for years.
Everything here is measured off elevations in square metres and lineal metres, priced against supplier lead times that run to months, and finished with a warranty and a compliance certificate on every job — which someone will ask for the day a leak appears.
How SubbieTRAC fits
- Area and linear measurement off the elevations and details, with markups kept against the drawing revision they came from
- Shop drawings and samples as submittals; the RFI when the detail does not close
- Long-lead items on the lead-times register across every job, so a delivery date is never a surprise
- Warranties, certificates and insurances filed in Drive and attached to the invoice from what is already on file
- Weather delays recorded on the site diary and claimed as the extension of time they are
The trades
- Roofing
- Sheets, flashings and gutters in square metres and lineal metres, weather days on the diary, and the certificate filed with the final claim.
- Cladding & Facades
- The longest lead times on the job. Shop drawings submitted, panels tracked on the lead-times register, claimed by elevation.
- Waterproofing
- Small areas, big consequences. Every membrane measured, every inspection recorded, every certificate filed where the next claim can find it.
- Windows & Glazing
- Measured openings, factory lead times and a shop drawing for every type — submitted, approved and tracked to site.
- Doors
- Door schedules priced by count, hardware as supplier items with your buy price and your sell rate, and the variation when the schedule changes.
- Insulation
- Area off the drawings, fast install, and a compliance certificate the builder needs before ceilings close — filed and attached to the claim.
Fit-out & finishes
Last in. Most variations. Least time.
You are sequenced behind every other trade, so the programme moves under you and the client changes their mind while you are on site. A high volume of small variations, several jobs running at once, and defects to close before practical completion is called.
How SubbieTRAC fits
- Variations priced in minutes from your own Sell Rates — on hold, approved and credited, each tracked by status
- Extra hours captured on site as day labour sheets and turned into priced variations in the office
- A roster across every live job, with each worker clocking on from their phone
- Defects, site diary and meetings recorded against the job, so practical completion is a list rather than an argument
- Quotes with options and exclusions, so the client sees the upgrade and what you have not priced
The trades
- Carpentry
- Frames, fix-out and the hundred small extras. Day labour sheets from site, variations priced in the office, the crew rostered across every job.
- Joinery
- Shop drawings for approval, long fabrication lead times, and one claim on delivery and another on install — with the variations for every change of finish.
- Partitions & Linings
- Square metres of wall by type, priced off the drawings; the wall that moved on the revised set is a variation, not an argument.
- Ceilings
- Area by ceiling type, sequenced after every service above it, and the access panel that was not on the drawing recorded as the variation it is.
- Floor Finishes
- Measured by area and material, last on the programme, and the substrate you found rather than the one you were promised — documented and priced.
- Wall Finishes
- Tiling, render and feature finishes by square metre, with the sample submitted, the setting-out agreed and the change of tile priced as a variation.
- Painting & Decorating
- Area off the drawings, coats and systems as sell rates, and the touch-ups after every other trade recorded as the day labour they are.
- Toilet Partitions & Washroom Cubicles
- Count off the schedule, fabricated to measure, delivered and fitted as two claims — with the accessories as supplier items.
Building services
Designed, installed, commissioned — then paid.
Design-and-construct packages with a consultant in the middle. RFIs and submittals before you can start, testing and commissioning before you are paid, and the sign-off that decides when a claim certifies. Licensed trades, on award rates, across many sites.
How SubbieTRAC fits
- RFIs, submittals and inspections recorded as correspondence against the job, with the answer and the date beside the question
- Licences per worker — electrical, plumbing, high-risk work — held against the person and uploaded from their phone
- Payroll with award and penalty rates, and a roster that knows who is licensed for which site
- Progress claims per stage with retention held, and recurring invoices for the maintenance contract afterwards
- Estimator workload visible before you say yes to the next D&C tender
The trades
- Hydraulic Services
- Rough-in, fit-off and commissioning as three claims, the RFIs answered against the job, and the plumbing licences on the people doing it.
- Mechanical Services
- Long-lead plant, shop drawings for every duct run, and commissioning sign-off before the final claim — tracked from tender to handover.
- Electrical Services
- Licensed trade, award rates, rough-in and fit-off claims, and the test certificates filed where the certifier can find them.
- Communications
- Cabling by count and length, terminations and testing as the final claim, and the as-built documents filed against the job.
- Fire Services
- Inspections and certificates are the job. Every test recorded, every certificate filed, every recurring maintenance invoice raised on time.
- Security
- Devices by count, programming and commissioning as sign-off, and the maintenance contract invoiced monthly once the install is done.
- Vertical Transport
- The longest lead time in the building. Order dates tracked, stage claims from delivery to commissioning, and the service contract that follows.
- Building Automation & Controls
- Points lists priced by count, commissioning as the gate to payment, and the defects period managed as the tasks it is.
- Renewable Energy & Sustainability
- Panels and inverters as supplier items with real prices, install claimed by stage, and the compliance certificates the rebate depends on filed with the claim.
Site, plant & specialist
The scopes that cut across every other trade.
General works, the external works around the building, specialist systems, the testing that closes a job out, and the plant and equipment hired against all of it. Cross-trade scopes, sign-off-driven claims, and equipment that has to be somewhere useful every day.
How SubbieTRAC fits
- Plant and equipment on a site asset register that is also the accounting asset register — one record, both jobs
- Hire, fuel and consumables as bills and expenses coded to the job they were used on
- Inspections and observations recorded as correspondence, so a sign-off is a document rather than a phone call
- A roster that puts people and plant on the right site, with clock-in from the phone
- Every scope, however mixed, quoted, contracted, claimed and paid in the one system
The trades
- General
- The scope that does not fit a box. Tender it, contract it, roster it, claim it — the whole platform, whatever the package turns out to be.
- External Works
- Paving, landscaping and services around the building — measured by area and length, sequenced last, and claimed as the site is handed over.
- Specialist Systems
- The one-of-a-kind package. Submittals for approval, long lead times tracked, and commissioning as the final claim.
- Testing & Commissioning
- Your deliverable is a document. Every inspection recorded against the job, every certificate filed, every sign-off tied to the claim it releases.
- Construction Equipment & Plant
- Every machine on the asset register, every hire as a bill against the job, and the crew and plant rostered to the same site on the same day.
The shape of the work
Different trades. One way the money moves.
A roofer and a fire-services contractor have nothing in common on site and everything in common in the office. This is the sequence every one of them runs, and the one SubbieTRAC is built around.
Tender the package
An invitation, a set of drawings, a deadline — and a quote that has to be right the first time.
Sign the subcontract
A contract value, a scope, a programme you did not write, and retention held against you from the first claim.
Deliver on their site
Your people, their programme. Variations, RFIs, site instructions and day labour all happen here.
Claim and get paid
Progress claims certified by someone else, paid on terms you did not set, with retention released months after you leave.
Nominate your trades when you set up and SubbieTRAC seeds the licences and tickets your team should hold for each. Working in a trade that is not here? Tell us which one.
Built for your trade, because it is built for the work.
Whichever of these trades you are in, the tender, the contract, the claim and the retention look the same — and SubbieTRAC runs all of it in one place.
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