Unibuild compared
with Causeway.
Causeway sells a portfolio. Unibuild is one platform, shaped to one firm at a time. Causeway covers design, supply chain, workforce, commercial and infrastructure software, joined by CausewayOne. Unibuild runs the site and the office of a UK contractor, built around the way that firm already works.
Causeway facts read from causeway.com and the app stores on
A portfolio against a platform built to fit.
Causeway says it has served construction and maintenance for over two decades, with over 3,000 customers and more than 1,000 construction contractors among them. Those are its own descriptions of itself.
| Causeway | Unibuild | |
|---|---|---|
| The meter | Not published. Causeway states no pricing model on its website | The firm. Unlimited users, never per person or per seat |
| Published rate | No. Contact sales | One figure per firm, quoted in writing, usually the same working day. It covers everything |
| Scope | Design, supply chain, workforce, commercial and infrastructure products, joined by the CausewayOne platform | One platform for site and office: labour, safety, subcontract, CIS and the application for payment |
| Who it serves | Principal contractors, subcontractors, highways contractors, house builders, local authorities and engineering consultants | UK contractors and specialists |
| Clocking in | CausewayOne Attendance, working with turnstiles, smartphones and biometric devices | A QR code at the gate, a photograph and a geofence. A person checks the photograph |
| The app your staff install | CausewayOne Mobile, listed by Causeway Technologies Limited on the App Store and by Causeway on Google Play | Published on the App Store and Google Play under your company's own name and icon |
| Changes to fit your process | Low-code and no-code capabilities in CausewayOne, with a library of pre-built templates, forms and workflows | Built around your process. Changes requested after go-live are inside the monthly fee |
| Setup | Not published | No setup fee. Configuration, training and data migration included. Most firms live in about two weeks |
Sources, read : causeway.com · CausewayOne · Workforce · Contractors · App Store · Google Play
Your process stays. The software moves.
Unibuild is bespoke construction management software for UK contractors: a platform in daily production since 2016, shaped to the way each firm already works. It was written inside Electrical & Mechanical Services (UK) Ltd, a temporary site services business, and has run it every working day since.
Anything a firm needs, Unibuild builds for it. Changes asked for after go-live are included in the monthly fee rather than charged at a day rate.
The build starts from a working platform rather than an empty screen. A firm gets the fit of a bespoke system without the cost, the timescale or the risk of commissioning one from scratch. The detail is on how Unibuild delivers bespoke construction software.
Causeway takes a different route. CausewayOne gives the customer low-code and no-code tools and ready-made templates, so a firm with its own systems team can build forms and workflows itself. With Unibuild, the people who built the platform make the change.
Your operatives download your app.
Your staff app is published on the App Store and Google Play under your company's own name and icon. Your operatives download your app, not ours. Each person is granted the modules they need, from the 25+ in the app.
The rest carries your name too. The office portal shows your name, logo and colours. Fifty-eight document types generate on your own letterhead, and the QR clock-in posters at the gate are printed in your branding. A client app under your brand is available for firms that want one.
Causeway publishes its apps under its own name: CausewayOne Mobile and CausewayOne Attendance are both listed by Causeway Technologies Limited. Unibuild publishes yours under your name. More on publishing your own branded staff app.
Where Causeway fits.
| If this is you | Why |
|---|---|
| Your work includes highways, roads or infrastructure asset maintenance | Causeway publishes road management, asset management and traffic order products |
| You need drainage, site development or infrastructure design software | Causeway sells design products for that work |
| You want turnstile or biometric attendance across large sites | CausewayOne Attendance works with access control devices and biometric devices |
| Your own systems team wants to build forms and workflows in-house | CausewayOne publishes low-code and no-code capabilities for that purpose |
Causeway and Unibuild, asked plainly.
What is a UK alternative to Causeway for a subcontractor?
Does Causeway charge per user?
What is the difference between Causeway and Unibuild?
Does Causeway have a mobile app for site staff?
Can construction software be changed to fit how we already work?
Compared with the rest.
Same axis, same standard of evidence, one page each.
| System | What the bill scales with | Who it suits |
|---|---|---|
| Joblogic | Named users, field engineers included | Field service and maintenance firms billing by job |
| Procore | Annual construction volume | Large main contractors running many projects at scale |
| BigChange | Licences | Mobile workforces where vehicle tracking is the point |
| Eque2 | Not published | Firms whose centre of gravity is Sage and the ledger |
| COINS | Per user licence | Contractors and homebuilders wanting one ERP with the ledger inside |
| Autodesk Construction Cloud | User, project or account, by product | Model-led projects needing a common data environment |
| Commusoft | A licence per office user, manager and engineer | Heating, plumbing and electrical service firms |
| PlanRadar | Named users, with subcontractors and watchers free | Firms whose work is defects, inspections and handover records |
| Fieldwire | Named users, with unlimited-user options on custom contracts | Teams coordinating field tasks against drawings |
| Every system, side by side | The hub table | Anyone still drawing up a shortlist |