How to Price For Excavations
Pricing for excavations depends on the site location.
The costs will also vary if there are materials found in the site.
These materials have to be measured.
The materials are hardcore, murram and sand.
These are normally found in the trenches or pits.
Since these materials may be re-used in the construction process, the cost of building is reduced.
Excavations on a site include trenches, pits, basements, roads, drainage and sewers.
The group of soils and rocks available on site dictate the kind of plants to use.
This will also affect the final excavation cost.
During pricing for excavations, include the disposal of the excavated materials.
This should be the total before excavations.
The cost should also include handling soil during the operations on site.
This is before the area is back filled and consolidated.
An allowance in cost should be made for working spaces in pits and trenches.
This spaces are used for form work, planking, strutting and circular form work.
The costing should include removal of any old drains, trimming, leveling and ramming the bottoms of the trenches or pits.
Prices for excavations must always be fair to the developer.
Most of this work is marked provisional.
This means they shall be measured again during construction.
The cost for returning, filling, ramming or carting away is important in costing.
This is because the point of where to deposit this materials might not be at site.
This materials are kept in temporary heaps or dumps on site.
The rates are usually inclusive of the finished dug up area.
The thickness given in the cost is always for the finished consolidated materials in the trenches or pits.
An excavation price should consider the distance for disposal of the materials.
Its also important to allow for permissions and licenses from local authorities at this places.
This are required before the disposal of materials.
The rates must always be current and within the specified scope of works.
The formation level, is the final level excavations and reduction of levels is done.
One must always visit the site to ascertain the nature of the work.
This is usually done before costing commences.
The costs will also vary if there are materials found in the site.
These materials have to be measured.
The materials are hardcore, murram and sand.
These are normally found in the trenches or pits.
Since these materials may be re-used in the construction process, the cost of building is reduced.
Excavations on a site include trenches, pits, basements, roads, drainage and sewers.
The group of soils and rocks available on site dictate the kind of plants to use.
This will also affect the final excavation cost.
During pricing for excavations, include the disposal of the excavated materials.
This should be the total before excavations.
The cost should also include handling soil during the operations on site.
This is before the area is back filled and consolidated.
An allowance in cost should be made for working spaces in pits and trenches.
This spaces are used for form work, planking, strutting and circular form work.
The costing should include removal of any old drains, trimming, leveling and ramming the bottoms of the trenches or pits.
Prices for excavations must always be fair to the developer.
Most of this work is marked provisional.
This means they shall be measured again during construction.
The cost for returning, filling, ramming or carting away is important in costing.
This is because the point of where to deposit this materials might not be at site.
This materials are kept in temporary heaps or dumps on site.
The rates are usually inclusive of the finished dug up area.
The thickness given in the cost is always for the finished consolidated materials in the trenches or pits.
An excavation price should consider the distance for disposal of the materials.
Its also important to allow for permissions and licenses from local authorities at this places.
This are required before the disposal of materials.
The rates must always be current and within the specified scope of works.
The formation level, is the final level excavations and reduction of levels is done.
One must always visit the site to ascertain the nature of the work.
This is usually done before costing commences.
