By / Joe Perraton

BuildCentrix (BCX) was originally built to allow for fast and easy ordering of complex custom duct products. With custom products like duct, every change in dimension, specification, and material affects the product itself, including the price, cost, and labor. As demand from our integrated mechanical clients grew, including piping and plumbing into the BCX platform meant re-thinking product ordering from the ground up.

This year, BCX engineers have been hard at work rebuilding a new, faster, and more flexible user ordering experience and a more flexible “shopping cart” capable of handling any type of product. As a result, we are pleased to announce the launch of the new ordering experience for piping and plumbing products.  

The new ordering experience allows for much faster and easier ordering by keeping the user on the same screen with all the filtering and cart functionality required to quickly find products and build a material order.

Users can now search by material and fitting type (elbows, pipe, valves), and our engineers have added a filter for diameter to help reduce the time spent sifting through the many variations of complex products.

Adding and removing fittings from the cart is as simple as selecting the quantity and dimension, then moving on to the next product. Listed products also include a link to a 3D view of each product as ordered and a link to item properties, including joints, material tags, and notes.

As always, once a user has added the required products to their material order, they simply input all their job data and submit the order to the purchasing department and fabrication, if required. Once submitted, everything from purchasing and fabrication to shipping and logistics can be tracked and monitored inside the BCX platform.

We’re very excited about the launch of version 1.0 of the new ordering interface, and we look forward to feedback and recommendations from users. BCX engineers are already hard at work integrating BCX features into version 2.0. This includes the popular Palette feature from the 3D Takeoff module that allows users to create and manage their own custom lists of products.

If you would like more information on the new ordering interfaces or any other aspect of the BCX platform, please email [email protected] ♣