2009 National Earthwork and
Heavy Equipment Estimator
Construction Cost Estimating Software for Excavation, Earth Movers and All Types of Heavy Construction

By Dan Atcheson

Complete labor, material, and manhour prices for estimating most earthmoving projects. You’ll find 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.

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 with an electronic version of the book with National Estimator, a stand-alone Windows estimating program, plus an interactive multimedia tutorial.

You will also receive a link for a download of the 2009 electronic version at no extra charge.

Included with National Estimator CD-ROM:

• Job Cost Wizard – turns estimates into invoices and exports both in QuickBooks
• Free Online Technical Support – for the National Estimator Software
• Free Monthly National Estimator Updates – Updates to the 2009 costbooks and zip code modification factors are updated monthly. Monthly price updates on the Web are free and automatic all during 2009. You'll be prompted when it's time to collect the next update. A connection to the Web is required.

Product Description:

• 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 2009

Job Cost Wizard

• Turns estimates into invoices and exports to QuickBooks Pro.
• Export entire estimates or invoices to track job costs for each item or category in your estimate. Then compare estimated and actual costs for each part of any job. Handles progressive billing (invoices for each phase of the job) with QuickBooks Pro. Requires Win 98, or higher.