New residential valuation program released by Boeckh.

Boeckh, a leading provider of building cost information and estimating Systems to the property and casualty insurance and related industries, will soon introduce Advantek, one of the most comprehensive and flexible residential valuation tools available to the insurance industry.

Advantek, scheduled to be available April 30th, is Boeckh's next generation residential valuation program. The program includes a comprehensive residence characteristic and cost database, and can value residences from economy to mansion quality, offering an objective methodology for valuing a home for the agent.

This methodology also incorporates a spectrum of detailed material specifications that helps determine the value of the home, providing a solution to Insurance-to-Value concerns.

"The accuracy of Boeckh's data, combined with the capability to create valuations for virtually all types and qualities of residential construction, offers the flexibility and reliability that the property insurance industry has been looking for in a residential valuation tool," said Advantek Product Manager Steve Tacke. "Advantek has the most comprehensive, accurate database of building costs and characteristics in the industry."

Tacke added that Boeckh's research department has conducted extensive building cost, code and fee research over the past two years in order to develop the breadth of data now available in Advantek.

Advantek includes the easy-to-use Location Profiles, a data set of residence characteristics based on the size, age and location of the home. Boeckh's cost researchers developed Location Profiles encompassing every 5-digit zip area in the U.S. and every FSA in Canada. Once the user enters the size, age and location information, the Location Profile will be generated and the user can accept, modify or decline it. Location Profiles can save the agents time, enhance accuracy, and allows the users the speed and flexibility of entering only a few pieces of information and generating an accurate valuation.

Advantek also features Boeckh's ValuMap system. Based on a structure's 5-digit zip code, the ValuMap system recognizes and automatically adjusts costs for those geographic locations subject to unusual seismic, high wind or climate variability.

Advantek's other features include a comprehensive and context-sensitive on-line help, custom program preferences and customizable reports.

Boeckh's research department, containing specialists and analysts with a total of over 65 years of construction industry experience, spent over two years detailing the specifications and researching local area building costs, codes and fees to develop this advanced valuation system.

Boeckh is located at 2885 S. Calhoun Road, New Berlin, WI, 53151. For information call [phone], or visit their web site at www.boeckh.com.