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Concrete Takeoff Guide to Estimating Concrete Jobs

Concrete Takeoff Guide to Estimating Concrete Jobs

November 7, 2022
Andrew
Construction
Concrete Takeoff Guide to Estimating Concrete Jobs

Imagine you have an important new project and you need to do some concrete work on the job. When estimates are inaccurate, it can lead to unnecessary pressure between companies and their clients.
Here’s where Kreo can help. We will focus on helping you unmistakably estimate how much your project will cost so that you can efficiently bid on the job.
Estimators need to consider two aspects when preparing a concrete estimate for bidding purposes:

  1. The first is quantity takeoff
  2. The second is pricing schedule

Kreo is the most powerful application to precisely calculate all the expenses that occur in the preparation of concrete.

Guide’s Structure:

  1. Estimating Formwork
    Formwork is always taken off by square feet of the contact area. Don’t forget to include miscellaneous formwork items in your estimate
  2. Estimating Concrete Strip Footing
    Start the takeoff of strip footings by measuring their lengths
  3. Estimating Concrete Walls
    Wall takeoff begins with measuring wall lengths and heights to reach a wall area
  4. Estimating Concrete Pad Footings
    Concrete pad footings takeoff usually starts with counting the number of pads
  5. Estimating Concrete Slabs
    Concrete slabs vary from a driveway for a residential home to a suspended slab and band in a high-rise office tower. Start the takeoff by measuring slab areas
  6. Estimating Concrete Columns
    Concrete columns can be found in both residential and commercial projects. Takeoff begins with counting the number of columns according to their dimensions
  7. Estimating Exterior Concrete Work
    Exterior concrete work shown on site or landscaping drawings is often ignored, but it can be quite expensive
  8. Estimating Reinforcing
    Reinforcing is usually required for concrete and masonry work
  9. Estimating Concrete Tie Beams
    Concrete tie beams are more common in commercial and institutional projects. Suspended slab bands are estimated in a similar way

Concrete Work: Estimating Checklist

To get an accurate estimate, first, make sure your concrete work contains the following:

What is concrete estimating software capable of?

Basically, any concrete estimating software should be able to extract the following items:

Recommendations for the calculation of concrete

The following recommendations list will help while estimating concrete work:

How to estimate concrete cost in Kreo?

Go to the Assemblies Database page

Go to the Assemblies Database page


Apply the ready-made Concrete Frame sample

Apply the ready-made Concrete Frame assembly base


Assemblies database has several "levels", which allow you to link simpler entities into whole objects.This structure is represented by 3 levels: property, item and assembly itself.Property — the simplest database element, which is invented to store any parameter: thickness, volume, cost type, classification code, number of layers, etc.Item — the next level of the database structure, which contains properties and already carries an applied meaning, providing a connection between all the properties included in it. An item can be material or labour, a set of geometric characteristics of an object.Assembly — a set of items, that serves for the rapid application of several connected items at once and also provides a connection between them. This creates a high-level object that has an internal structure: Assembly - Items - Properties.
Structure the database in the way you need. Kreo default database contains the following items:

  1. Footings
  2. Foundation
  3. Walls
  4. Ground Beams
  5. Pile Caps
  6. Piles
  7. Raft
  8. Beams
  9. Columns (Rectangular/square section, Round section)
  10. Slabs
  11. Walls
  12. Precast Concrete (Beam, Column, Roof Slab, Slab, Stair, Stair Landing)

Create a project

Create a project


Depending on the element type you need to calculate, create measurements and assign them to the group or to the Assembly's measures

Asssign assemblies


Enter real values instead of the default ones

Enter real values


Create a report

Сreate report

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