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Click here to get the Earthwork & Heavy Equipment Estimator as part of the CD Estimator. The 2010 Earthwork & Heavy Equipment Estimator has not been updated as a stand-alone estimator. You can still get the Earthwork & Heavy Equipment Estimator as part of the CD Estimator. The CD Estimator includes the database of TEN estimating costbooks. The National Earthwork & Heavy Equipment Estimator has complete labor, material, and manhour prices for estimating most earthmoving projects. This is a must-have guide for any contractor dealing with earthwork and heavy equipment. It tells you 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. National Earthwork & Heavy Equipment Estimator 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. Includes a FREE CD-ROM The CD is an electronic version of the book and includes National Estimator, a stand-alone Windows estimating program, plus an interactive multimedia tutorial. Page through the entire book one screen at a time or use the electronic index to instantly search 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 (the costs are extended and columns totaled automatically). And you can change any price or quantity, including subtotals, and add the markup of your choice. Included with National Estimator CD-ROM:
National Earthwork & Heavy Equipment Estimator includes: 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 Not available as a stand-alone estimator. You can still find it in the CD Estimator. Click here to get the Earthwork & Heavy Equipment Estimator as part of the CD Estimator. |
