Sitework estimating software for site and civil contractors. Paving measured by area and section, utilities measured by size, material and depth with structures counted, curbs and walks measured by length, and every layer of the pavement section quantified rather than carried as a single square-yard rate.
Sitework covers everything outside the building line, and it is estimated badly more often than any other package because it looks like a set of simple areas and lengths. A parking lot is an area. A storm line is a length. In reality the parking lot is a stack of layers — subgrade preparation, geotextile, aggregate base, binder course, surface course — each with its own thickness, its own unit and its own price, and the storm line is priced by depth as much as by length, because a run at fourteen feet needs trench boxes and a crew that a four-foot run does not.
BidcoreAI measures the pavement section rather than the pavement. Each paved area carries its section from the detail sheet, so a heavy-duty truck court, a standard parking bay and a concrete dumpster pad each generate their own layer quantities in their own units — square yards of surface course, tons of asphalt by layer, cubic yards of base. Changing a section changes the quantities without re-measuring the area.
Utilities are measured by system, size, material and depth, with structures counted individually. Manholes, catch basins, inlets, cleanouts, valves, hydrants and thrust blocks are counted from the plans and the structure schedule, each with its rim and invert elevations, which is what makes the trench depth real rather than assumed. Bedding, backfill, compaction and pavement restoration follow the trench rather than being carried as an allowance.
The rest of the site — curbs, gutters, sidewalks, ramps, fencing, gates, striping, signage, bollards, dumpster enclosures and site furnishings — is measured by its own units and counted from the plan. These items are individually small and collectively substantial, and they are the ones most often reduced to a single site allowance in a hurried bid, which is why they are where site packages quietly lose money.
Site plan, paving plan, utility plans, structure schedules and the site detail sheets.
Measured by area and section, with every layer of the section quantified.
Measured by length and type with the details that go with them.
By system, size, material and depth — depth being the part that drives the price.
Counted individually from the plans and structure schedule with their elevations.
The flatwork and small structures that never appear in a building takeoff.
Small items in large numbers — the classic site allowance that should be a takeoff.
Sections, depths and structures — carried as data instead of as assumptions.
Paved areas, curb runs, walks and utility lines detected across the site plans and proposed for confirmation.
Each area carries its section from the detail sheet, so every layer quantifies automatically in its own unit.
Surface and binder courses converted to tons by thickness and mix density rather than reported as square yards.
Rim and invert elevations from the structure schedule give real trench depths instead of a single assumed depth.
Manholes, inlets, valves and hydrants counted individually with depth, diameter and casting type.
Trench box and shoring requirements driven by measured depth, priced rather than assumed included.
Pavement and surface restoration over trenches calculated from the trench footprint, not estimated at the end.
Backfill compaction lifts and density testing carried as quantities where the specification requires them.
Bollards, signs, wheel stops, striping and furnishings counted individually rather than folded into a site allowance.
Productivity by operation — paving, pipe laying, curb — from your own fleet and crew history.
Quantities grouped by phase or area, so a staged site can be estimated and billed the way it will be built.
Quantity schedules and priced estimates exported with sheet references and section details on every line.
Divisions 32 and 33, with the earthwork interface kept in view.
Retail pads, distribution centres, campuses, subdivisions and municipal work.
Areas and lengths first, then the sections and depths that turn them into money.
The site stops being one allowance and becomes a set of measured quantities.
Quantifying every layer means a heavy-duty section and a standard bay are priced differently, which they are, by a lot.
Deriving trench depth from rim and invert elevations is what separates a bid that anticipated trench boxes from one that discovers them.
Manholes and inlets are expensive units. Counting them with their depths beats applying an average that fits no project.
Pavement restoration over trenches calculated from the trench footprint stops it being remembered after the number is submitted.
Bollards, signs, striping and furnishings counted individually is usually a five-figure difference against a single site allowance.
Asphalt in tons by course and mix is what a plant quotes against, and it makes the material order match the estimate.
Because the detail sheet and the structure schedule are where sitework is actually priced.
Assign a section to an area and every layer quantifies. Change the section and the quantities follow without re-measuring.
Derived from rim and invert elevations rather than assumed, which changes excavation, shoring and restoration together.
Counted individually with depth and diameter, priced as the significant units they are.
Fencing, striping, signage and furnishings counted rather than lumped, which is where site bids leak.
Measure and price from anywhere; the marked-up site plan opens on a tablet in the field.
Site packages can be measured for you through professional takeoff services.
Send the site, paving and utility plans with the structure schedules and have the package measured for you — paving by section and layer, utilities by size and real depth, structures counted, and the small items counted rather than allowed for.
One platform, one cost database, one set of drawings — whichever scope you are pricing today.
Bring a paving plan and a detail sheet. Compare the tonnage and the base volume against what you carried.
