2008 National Earthwork & Heavy Equipment Estimator

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2008 NATIONAL EARTHWORK & HEAVY EQUIPMENT ESTIMATOR 2008 Guide to Pricing Earthmoving Projects By Dan Atcheson



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 I 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.

Monthly price updates on the Web are FREE and automatic all during 2008