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Civil and site development takeoffs
BidAccurate provides sitework estimating services to site contractors, excavation and utility subs, general contractors, and developers around the US. You send the civil set, and we sort it into the quantities you bid from: earth, pipe, paving, and erosion control.
Sitework numbers move with the ground. A few tenths of a foot on finished grade, or a sewer invert that drops deeper than expected, changes cut volume, trench depth, and truck count. So before we measure anything, we read the survey, geotech report, profiles, and pavement details alongside the plan sheets.
Scope comes from the civil plans, topo, utility profiles, details, specs, geotech report, addenda, and bid instructions you send. If another sub is carrying one of the categories below, we drop it.
Clearing and removals stay off the new-work lines. You can price demo crews and haul-off without digging through the grading numbers.
We build cut and fill from the existing and proposed contours or spot grades, then read it against the geotech report. Shrink, swell, and rock factors go in only when the report or your team gives us a number.
Pipe is measured off the plan and checked against the profiles for depth. Structures come from the structure table, with rim and invert data where it's given.
Each pavement section is its own line. Light-duty asphalt, heavy-duty asphalt, concrete paving, and walks each carry their own base thickness.
SWPPP measures shown on the plans get separate lines. Want an allowance for maintenance or end-of-job removal? We carry it apart from the install.
Quantities go out in the units you'd price them in.
Send the civil drawings, specs, geotech report, and addenda with the location and bid date. Include crew rates or trucking prices if you have them. We'll review the set and confirm what the takeoff will cover.
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Grading, utility, paving, and erosion control sheets are read together with the geotech, details, specs, and addenda. When a storm line runs under new paving, both the trench patch and the pavement section make it into the numbers.
Your estimator spends bid week on trucking quotes and crew pricing, not scaling pipe runs.
Cut, fill, stripping, undercut, import, and export come out as separate volumes. Put your own shrink and haul assumptions on top.
Bedding stone, compaction testing, inlet protection, and pavement patch-back are easy to drop when the bid is due tomorrow. We count them along with the structures and fittings.
Color-coded civil sheets come with quantity summaries and drawing references, so anyone on your team can check what we measured.
Send crew rates, equipment costs, trucking rates, dump fees, or supplier quotes and we'll price with them.
Site work ties grades, soils, utilities, drainage, access, and trucking together, and it pulls from Divisions 31, 32, and 33 at once. We keep those links, and the assumptions behind them, in plain view.
A utility plan without its profile gives you length but not depth. We work from both, plus the details and specs, so trench quantities follow the depths shown.
Stripping depth, undercut, shrink and swell, rock, moisture conditioning, and haul distance all move the number. Whichever ones apply are written down where you can see and change them.
Group pipe, structures, bedding, backfill, and restoration by system, pipe size, depth range, phase, or bid item.
Each line ties to a drawing reference. Alternates, allowances, exclusions, and open questions live in a separate log.
Public jobs with a unit-price bid form get quantities by pay item. Private work can follow your cost codes, phases, or crew breakdown.
Revised grading or a rerouted storm line? Send the addendum and we'll update the affected earthwork, utility, and paving quantities.
How a civil set moves from upload to the marked plans and workbook you bid from.
Civil and landscape plans, the topo survey, geotech report, specs, addenda, and bid form. Add the location and bid date, and any architectural or utility-company drawings that affect the site.
We confirm what's yours (demo, earthwork, utilities, paving, erosion control, landscape) and settle soil assumptions, alternates, bid units, and report breakdowns.
Earthwork volumes come off the grading. Pipe and curb are measured in LF, paving in SF or SY, and structures are counted, each tagged by material, thickness, and location.
If you want a cost estimate, we apply material prices, crew production, equipment, trucking, supplier quotes, and the indirects we agreed on.
Quantities are checked across plans, profiles, details, and specs. Conflicts, exclusions, and allowances get logged as we go.
Excel or PDF estimate, quantity summaries, scope notes, and marked civil plans, laid out for bid review, budgeting, or supplier pricing.
Tell us whether you want site quantities only or a full estimate with material, labor, equipment, and trucking.
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Sitework estimate deliverables
Use it to check site balance, price crews and equipment, get material or trucking quotes, compare alternates, or load quantities into your own software. We agree on the output and level of detail before we start.
Cut, fill, stripping, undercut, aggregate, topsoil, import, and export volumes, with notes on how each was calculated.
Pipe by system and size, structures, trench materials, pavement sections, curb, flatwork, and erosion control items.
Materials, crews, equipment, hauling, and supplier quotes extended from the pricing basis we confirmed.
Color-coded sheets plus drawing references, alternates, allowances, exclusions, and assumptions in one set.
Need quantities without pricing, a full project estimate, or concrete numbers to go with the site package? Start here.
Site quantities and marked drawings without pricing, if you'd rather run the numbers yourself.
Fold sitework into a full project estimate with the building trades, subs, and general conditions.
Footings, slabs, walls, and site concrete in CY, with formwork and rebar.
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