Industries / Site & civil
Earthwork, utilities, and paving, priced on production.
Site and civil work covers a lot of ground: the site package on a private development, and the unit-price schedule on a public road or utility job. Either way the cost is driven by equipment, production rates, and measured quantities rather than trade labor.
What’s different here
What makes estimating different here.
Two kinds of bid
A private site package is usually a lump sum against the civil drawings. Public civil work arrives as a bid schedule with fixed pay items and units. The database has to support both without rebuilding the estimate.
Equipment is the cost driver
Ownership, operating cost, and hourly production for each piece of equipment drive the number. Crew-based costing built for trade labor doesn’t model a spread of excavators, dozers, and trucks.
Production rates, not unit costs
You price by how much a crew and its equipment move per hour under given conditions. Haul distance, swell and shrink, soil type, and dewatering belong in the estimate as inputs, not hand calculations.
Quantities come from the grading plan
Cut and fill, trench footage, structures, and paving areas all come off the civil set. On unit-price work, quantity error is the contractor’s exposure.
How we set it up
What the implementation includes.
Kickoff to live in weeks, not months, using the internal tools we’ve built for implementation.
- A database organized by operation — clearing, earthwork, underground utilities, paving, concrete flatwork — with pay items mapped where the owner requires them
- Equipment costing with ownership and operating rates, modeled as spreads rather than individual pieces
- Production-rate costing with haul cycles, swell, shrink, and site conditions handled as inputs
- Reporting formatted for lump-sum site proposals and for the bid schedules you submit against
- Takeoff wired into the database so quantities are measured once and never retyped
What you’ll likely run
The tools that carry the most weight here.
Starting databases
Database marketplace →Tell us how your team estimates.
We’ll tell you whether your setup needs configuring, rebuilding, or something written from scratch.
- Response time
- One business day, usually the same day.