Assembly

A reusable template that turns a takeoff measurement into priced quantities of materials, labor, and equipment.

An assembly is the unit of work in concrete and earthwork estimating. It packages everything needed to price a piece of scope: parameters, formulas, output quantities, and cost links.

Parameters: wall height, wall thickness, rebar weight per LF, form sides Takeoff input: wall length (LF, from your plan markup) Outputs: concrete CY, rebar LB, formwork SF, labor hours Costs: linked to your cost database for materials, labor, and equipment

When you measure a wall on a plan and assign it to this assembly, the math runs automatically. Change the wall height parameter, every wall recalculates.

Without assemblies, every measurement is just a number — 119 LF of wall. With assemblies, that 119 LF becomes 35.48 CY concrete, 598.65 LB rebar, 1,600 SF formwork, and a total cost line item. Once. Reusable across every project that uses similar walls.

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