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EARTHVOQ

[ Earthwork estimating ]

Earthwork estimating software built on your own production rates

Cut, fill and the haul between them, priced on the machines you own and the production your crews actually get. No industry averages, no rate table you did not write.
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14 days. No card.

Mass excavationOne line, priced
Quantity18,400 CYFrom takeoff
Production210 CY/hrYour assumption
Hours87.6Quantity ÷ production
Cost$0

Cat 336 @ $109.55/hr · crew @ $190.00/hr · your rates, built up

Quantities from the plan, not from a guess

Load the PDF, set the scale off a dimension you can read, and measure. Every quantity keeps a link back to the shape it came from, so a number you are asked about six weeks later still has an answer.

  • Calibrate on a known dimension

    Scale comes from something printed on the sheet. A takeoff calibrated on a guess is wrong everywhere at once.

  • Areas, depths and trenches

    Measure a pad by area and depth, a trench by length and section, and see the cubic yards resolve as you draw.

  • Cut against fill

    The balance is the number that decides whether you are hauling off, hauling in, or neither.

The measurement side has its own page — earthwork takeoff — if that is the part you are shopping for.

What the work costs when your crews do it

EARTHVOQ does not ship a production rate, an hourly cost or a fuel price. It asks for yours, builds them up so you can take them apart later, and prices the job on them.
Equipment build-upCat 336

Ownership

$48.20/hr

Depreciation, insurance, taxes

Operating

$61.35/hr

Fuel, wear, maintenance

Total

$109.55/hr

Operator

In crew rate

Stated, so it is not double-counted

Four cost types, priced separately

Labor by crew and hours. Equipment by machine and hours. Material by quantity and unit price. Hauling and disposal by load, cycle and tipping fee. They behave differently on a job, so they are built differently in the estimate.

Every rate is stored with the assumptions behind it — lifetime hours, annual utilisation, fuel burn — so a machine rate is something you can defend to a customer rather than a figure somebody typed once.

Overhead is a cost, and it belongs in the price

A 22% gross margin against an 18% overhead rate is a 4% job. EARTHVOQ shows both numbers because only one of them answers “did we make money”, and it is not the one most estimates print.
Bid build-upRiverside Commons

Direct cost

$284,000

Overhead @ 15%

$42,600

From your own annual figures

Breakeven

$326,600

Bid @ 20% margin

$408,250

Gross margin 30.4% · profit after overhead 20.0%

The overhead rate comes from a calculator inside the product that divides your own annual indirect cost by your own direct cost or field hours. EARTHVOQ will not supply one: published ranges vary by trade, region and company size far too widely to be worth using.

One estimate, every assumption visible

  1. 01

    Scope

    Sections and line items in the order you build the job, not in the order a form wants them.

  2. 02

    Quantities

    From takeoff, from a calculator, or typed. Each keeps its source.

  3. 03

    Rates and production

    Yours, per activity. Change one and the estimate re-prices while you watch.

  4. 04

    Versions

    Revisions are versions, not overwrites. The one you sent stays exactly as you sent it.

From estimate to job baseline

The estimate you won becomes the budget the job is measured against — frozen, so a later edit cannot quietly change what you thought the work would cost.

Budget

Per cost code, with the quantity, the hours and the production rate the bid assumed.

Actual

Posted by approved field days and purchase-order receipts. Those two doors, and no others.

The difference

Visible per activity while the job runs, not discovered in an accounting close three months later.

That side of it is job costing, and it is the reason estimating in EARTHVOQ is worth more than estimating in a spreadsheet.

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Price one job on your own numbers and see what it tells you.

Fourteen days, no card, and nothing pre-filled. Bring one plan set and one machine rate you already know, and see whether the estimate agrees with what you would have written on paper.
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14 days, no card. Plans from $79 a month.