Complete labor, material, and manhour prices for estimating most earthmoving projects. You'll find how to read site plans, what's necessary in site preparation, how to determine site cut and fill quantities, how to determine soil swell and compaction, how to work with topsoil, slabs and paving, road work, curbs and gutters, and trench excavation.
Includes factors affecting equipment production and how to include it in your estimate, as well as production rates for excavators, trucks, dozers, scrapers, compactors, graders, pavers, as well as blasting, ripping rock, and soil stabilization.
- Site Preparation - Surveying, site clearing.
- Cut and Fill Operations - Cross section method, average end area method, zero (daylight) line.
- Topsoil, Slabs and Paving - Topsoil volumes, net cut and fill volumes, land slope affecting topsoil quantities.
- Roadwork - Centerline profiles, road cross sections, mass diagrams, asphalt quantities, curbs and gutters.
- Soil Swell and Shrinkage - Fundamental states of soil, ground loss.
- Spoil, Borrow and Soil Balancing - Site balancing, interim spoil and soil piles.
- Basement Excavation - Determining quantities, safe bank slope, pencil plane method for volume calculation.
- Trench Excavation - Depth and shape, footing trench excavation volumes, utility trenches, dewatering.
- Grade Beams and Drilled Piers - Calculating volumes.
- Excavating Equipment - Production rates, bucket capacities, power shovels, draglines, clamshells, trenching.
- Moving Vehicle Performance - Grade resistance and assistance, travel time charts.
- Loaders - Productivity, soil state cubic yard conversions.
- Trucks and Wagons - Excavator and hauling unit production rates, turning and dump time.
- Tractors and Bulldozers - Dozing techniques, dozer blades, dozer productivity.
- Scraper - Uses and limitations, scraper varieties, scraper cycle time, push loading, maneuver and dump time.
- Soil Compaction - Testing, grading, calculating, dry density, compaction, stabilization.
- Rock Blasting and Ripping - Blasting, ripping.
- Paving - Aggregate, binder, bituminous and aggregate surface treatments, asphalt paving, compaction, recycling.
Free Estimating Disk Enclosed
Inside the back cover of this book you'll find National Estimator, a CD-ROM with all the cost estimates in the book plus an easy-to-use estimating program for Windows. National Estimator works just like a book. Page through the entire book one screen at a time or use the electronic index to search (in seconds) for what you need. Then select the cost estimates you want and copy them to your estimate with the touch of a key. It's quick and easy (costs are extended and columns totaled automatically). And you can change any price or quantity, including subtotals, and add the markup of your choice.
Free Monthly National Estimator Updates. Updates to the 2008 costbooks and zip code modification factors are updated monthly. Monthly price updates on the Web are free and automatic all during 2008. You'll be prompted when it's time to collect the next update. A connection to the Web is required.
Includes Job Cost Wizard
Turns estimates into invoices and exports to QuickBooks Pro. Export entire estimates or invoices to track job costs for each item or category in your estimate. Then compare estimated and actual costs for each part of any job. Handles progressive billing (invoices for each phase of the job) with QuickBooks Pro. Requires Win 98SE or higher.
The National Estimator System Requirements:
- PC with 300 megahertz or higher Intel (or equivalent) processor recommended; 233 MHz minimum required.
Operating Systems:
- Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME or Windows 98SE.
- Requires up to 160 megabytes (MB) of hard disk space.
- Super VGA (800 x 600) or higher-resolution video adapter and monitor.
- CD-ROM or DVD drive.
- Keyboard and mouse or compatible pointing device.
For Internet access:
- DSL or cable connection recommended; 56 kilobits per second (Kbps) or higher-speed modem minimum.
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 (or higher), Netscape 7.1, Firefox 1.0, or Mozilla 1.7 minimum.
ShowMe Tutorial System Requirements:
- 1024 x 768 or higher video resolution required.
- To listen to video tutorial - Sound card and speakers or headphones.
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