About Us.
HBXL have been providing software solutions for SME building firms and Builders Merchants in the UK for over 20 years. We develop, sell and support our own solutions and this gives us flexibility to work with you to suit your business.
Our software is Tried and Trusted by literally thousands of firms across the UK and our development and support teams are UK based too. Our UK orientation means our software solutions are in UK English, in £ currency, meet UK regs and our software solutions are supported during UK working hours.
Our Directors.
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Adrian Wild, Chairman
Chairman and founder of HBXL, Adrian was a builder for 25 years and has built 80+ houses and 300 extensions. Fed up with confusing Price Books and lack of software suitable for his size business, he developed his own estimating package. Adrian is an ideas man and has launched EstimatorXpress, PlansXpress, Health & Safety Xpert and ContractsXpert.
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Joanna Mulgrew, Managing Director
Joanna has been with the company since it started and knows the products well. She grew up surrounded by the building industry as her father was a builder and has also renovated 3 properties. With a degree in marketing she now heads up the business researching new software opportunities for the UK building community!
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Jim Pizzey, Technical Director
Jim has lots of construction experience having worked on site and now develops software packages alongside Steven. Jim is co author of PlansXpress and is essential to EstimatorXpress. Jim also heads up the Support Team, ensuring each and every customer gets the prompt, friendly and professional assistance they deserve.
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Steven Mulgrew, Software Dev' Director
Steven strives to author software packages that are robust, user-friendly and tackle the everyday problems the community faces! Steven has personally been responsible for the launch of Health & Safety Xpert and BuildingWorks and now cloud-based construction management software BuildProjex. As a hobby he renovates property.
“We’re absolutely passionate about helping small building firms and allied suppliers run their businesses profitably in a stress-free and compliant manner..”
— Joanna Mulgrew, Managing Director
Talk to us about your software and integration needs.
Software Development Director, Steven Mulgrew, has 23 years’ experience in building software solutions and leads our integrations with Builders Merchant partners pricing files.
Uniquely we offer full integration across the construction process from concept to completion so you can offer your customers a complete range of services. Using our exclusive X-connex data-sharing technology the complete platform ‘talks’ to each package to reduce data re-entry. For example Take-off’s of PDF drawings can be undertaken in PlansXpress and fired into EstimatorXpress seamlessly to cost and quantify the traced project.
CAD software PlansXpress for full Design Services or choose PlansXpress ‘Take-off’ to capture project geometry and specification
Estimating software EstimatorXpress for Estimating Services
Health & Safety software Health & Safety Xpert to offer health and safety documentation
Our dedicated development team means we can provide a solution which meets your exact needs, taking our off the shelf solutions and tailoring to suit. We have a clear development pathway and will stay on the digital journey with you.