Planning workflow

Shelter project tools and calculators

Use structured tools instead of relying on generic “average shelter prices”. The core project flow is available in English and shares one saved project passport across connected calculators.

Start with project passport Discuss a project

Shared project context

Project passport

Collect facility, capacity, site, solution, budget, funding, timing and scope into one reusable project brief.

Open tool →Early navigation

Shelter direction guide

Use the project context to see which shelter direction and Ukrainian terminology to investigate first without treating the online result as a design conclusion.

Open tool →Early scoping

Technical request builder

Create a compact first engineering request with capacity, facility, location, project stage and desired systems.

Open tool →Private projects

Family shelter planner

Build a private-home brief from family size, target autonomy, possible placement and the systems you want to discuss, without prefilled assumptions.

Open tool →People → area

Area calculator

Estimate the preliminary minimum main-room area from the number of people and the selected Ukrainian regulatory planning scenario.

Open tool →Area → people

Capacity calculator

Estimate a preliminary capacity from the usable main-room area and the selected Ukrainian regulatory scenario.

Open tool →Emergency provisions

Emergency water reserve

Calculate the emergency drinking-water reserve from the number of people and planning period while keeping it separate from the full water-supply design.

Open tool →Base budget

Budget structure builder

Break a shelter budget into design, structure, logistics, installation, engineering systems and other known cost groups.

Open tool →Unit metrics

Cost per place / per m²

Calculate unit metrics from your own budget, capacity and area without sample inputs, and use them only with a comparable technical scope.

Open tool →Implementation cost

Logistics & installation

Build a transport, crane and installation scenario from your own distance and supplier rates, with return mileage and reserve off by default.

Open tool →Supplier comparison

Supplier offer comparison

Compare two offers against the same design, structure, site, delivery, installation, engineering, fit-out and commissioning groups.

Open tool →Risk planning

Budget reserve

Model an explicit project risk buffer by category without inserting a default contingency percentage or mixing reserve with confirmed base costs.

Open tool →Operations

Annual maintenance budget

Plan annual operating costs by system without default maintenance tariffs or an automatic repair contingency.

Open tool →Lifecycle cost

Total cost of ownership

Compare capital and user-entered annual operating costs over 3, 5 or 10 years without hidden inflation or tariff assumptions.

Open tool →Funding structure

Co-financing

Combine programme funding, local co-financing and other confirmed sources to calculate coverage and the remaining funding gap.

Open tool →Funding preparation

Funding readiness

Check whether source data, documents, budget, co-financing, timeline and procurement assumptions are sufficiently prepared for a funding discussion.

Open tool →Implementation planning

Project timeline

Work backward from a target completion date and structure the duration of source-data, design, procurement, implementation and acceptance stages.

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One project context across the core workflow

The English tools use the same browser-side ShelterMetric Project Passport. Capacity, budget, funding model, project stage, target date and selected technical or lifecycle scenarios can move between connected tools without forcing the user to rebuild the same project brief.

Base budget, unit metrics, logistics, reserve and lifecycle cost stay separate

The budget builder stores confirmed base cost information. Unit cost is a comparison metric, logistics, maintenance and TCO are separate scenarios, while reserve and co-financing keep risk and funding concepts distinct. This prevents different financial concepts from collapsing into one misleading number.

No automatic assumptions where project data is missing

Unknown values can remain unknown. ShelterMetric does not invent a shelter type, market price, sample capacity, sample area, contingency percentage, return-trip mileage, maintenance tariff, project duration or funding eligibility just to produce a complete-looking result.