Cut and fill volume (average end area)
Cut, fill and net earthwork between cross-sections using the average end area method.
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Example result · fictional numbers
What you get: earthwork sheet
Worked out by this tool from its default inputs. Its role plan lets you run your own numbers, print the sheet and save it.
944 CY cut, 273 CY fill over 200 ft: 51 truckloads to export, about $8,901.71 in place
- Stations / length
- 5 / 200 ft
- Cut (bank)
- 944 CY
- Fill (compacted)
- 273 CY
- Bank CY needed for fill
- 303 CY
- Net export (waste)
- 641 bank CY
Volumes by segment
- Sta 0+00 to 0+50
- cut 111 CY, fill 106 CY; mass ordinate -7 bank CY
- Sta 0+50 to 1+00
- cut 306 CY, fill 28 CY; mass ordinate 267 bank CY
- Sta 1+00 to 1+50
- cut 343 CY, fill 19 CY; mass ordinate 590 bank CY
- Sta 1+50 to 2+00
- cut 185 CY, fill 120 CY; mass ordinate 641 bank CY
Also on the sheet
- Mass balance · 6 lines, starting with “Cut (bank)”
- Trucking (export) · 2 lines, starting with “Export volume”
- Quantity and price sheet · 6 lines, starting with “Excavate and load cut”
The plain-words read of this example
Over 200 ft the job has 944 CY of cut and 273 CY of compacted fill, which needs 303 CY bank at 10% shrinkage. Cut-heavy: 641 CY bank of surplus to waste or stockpile, or 801 CY loose in 51 truckloads. The mass line peaks at 641 bank CY at Sta 2+00 and balances in 1 place. At your unit prices the earthwork comes to about $8,901.71. Take the shrinkage from the geotech report for your compaction spec, since it moves the fill quantity directly.
4 cited sources
- Caterpillar Performance Handbook (edition 49) (Caterpillar, via MacAllister Machinery (Cat dealer))
- ASTM D698, Laboratory Compaction Characteristics of Soil Using Standard Effort (ASTM International)
- ASTM D1557, Laboratory Compaction Characteristics of Soil Using Modified Effort (ASTM International)
- 2022 Construction General Permit (CGP) (US Environmental Protection Agency)
Plus 5 step-by-step checks, a print layout and a link that reopens it with your numbers.