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.
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