Calculating Earthwork Volumes

Moving earth is one of the most expensive construction activities in a land development project. For this reason, there are two important questions that you will need to answer about nearly every grading design that you do:

• How much earth must be moved?
• How much earth must be brought into or transported away from the project site?

As a designer or engineer, one of your most important tasks is to answer these questions with the smallest values possible. The less soil that is required to be moved for a project, the more money you have saved the client and/or owner. Transporting soil to or from the site is also a very costly construction activity, and therefore it is one that you should also minimize.

• Understanding Earthwork Volumes
• Using the Volumes Dashboard

Download Exercise File :

• Calculating Earthwork Volumes - Metric     --- ( 5.2 MB )
• Calculating Earthwork Volumes - Imperial  --- ( 4.74 MB )