Earthwork Takeoff Software

Take off areas of disturbance, trench runs, and height-driven cut and fill volumes in cubic yards or cubic metres. Drive the volume from the calibrated area and a depth, so excavation, backfill, and trenching quantities come off site and grading plans without a spreadsheet.

Cut and fill post as cubic yards or cubic metres driven by depth, so changing a level re-posts the volume, and trench runs stay linear beside them with their own excavation quantities. Every line feeds the Bill of Quantities and traces back to the geometry that produced it, so editing the drawing updates the quantity instead of starting a re-keying job — in the office or on the iPad on site, within the wider construction takeoff software workspace.

Measure the disturbed area on the calibrated plan, drive cut and fill volume from a depth, and keep trench runs as linear quantities. Adjust the depth once and the cubic-yard quantity follows, so a grading revision does not mean re-measuring the whole pad.

Cut volume with the conversion shown: an 850 m² pad cut to 400 mm is 850 × 0.4 = 340 m³ in the ground — and bank volume is not truck volume, because excavated soil swells. At a typical 25% swell factor for common earth, 340 bank m³ becomes 425 loose m³ to haul; in imperial, 340 m³ × 1.308 = 445 bank cu yd, or about 556 loose cu yd. Change the cut depth on the same polygon and every downstream number follows, which is exactly the arithmetic a grading revision breaks in a spreadsheet.