QSB 2134 - Estimating

CHAPTER 7: CONCRETE WORK

Tutorial/ Seminar 2

Pad footing size 500mm x 500mm x 250mm

Column size 250mm x 250mm

250mm
You are required to do a preliminary estimate.
Estimate the cost of the pad footings.
a) There are 4 nos. of pad footings
b) Allowance reinforcement bar = 70kg/m3
c) The pad footings are on solid ground
d) Allow 30% placing wastages

FORMWORK DATA

Given:
18mm plywood at RM36.00 per m2
Cutting waste is 15%
Allow 4 uses for timber formwork
Waste on each use 10%
Nails, bolts @ RM1.50 per m2
1 joiner and 1 labourer take 1 hour to erect 1m2 of formwork
(Joiner @ RM8.00 per hour and labourer @ RM5.00 per hour)

REINFORCEMENT BAR DATA

Given:

Material cost Time analysis for 100kg of reinforcement bar:

reinforcement bar delivered to site is RM1,480 per tonne Select = 28 mins
allow for labour stacking & loading at RM5.00/tonne Cut = 32 mins
tie wire is 0.66kg/100kg if reinforcement bar at $4.80 / kg Bend = 35 mins
allow spacers RM4.00 per tonne of rebar Fix = 23 mins
allow waste 7% Hoist twice = 7 mins
allow for rolling margin RM22.00/ tonne

Labour cost:
Team - 1 skill labour and 1 unskilled labourer at RM6.00 and RM4.80 per hour respectively
Allow 10% idling time.

CONCRETE DATA
Cost of concrete:
Use 1:2:3 concrete design
- OPC at 1420 kg/m3 at RM10.00/50kg
- Fine aggregate at 1600kg/m3 at RM30.00/tonne
- coarse aggregate at 1400kg/m3 at RM40.00/tonne
- shrinkage consolidation and wastage 50%

5/31/2 Mixer
- labour gang - 5 nos required. Labour at RM3.50/hr/person
- One mixer output at 1.2m3 per hour
- Cost per hour of one mixer including fuel = RM5.00
- Additional labour for placing of concrete into pad footing at 0.60 hour/ m3 at RM5.00 per hour
- Additional labour working around reinforcement in 0.55 hour at RM5.00 per hour per m3
- Cost of vibrator = RM6.30 per 1.50m3

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