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Excavation

Cut, fill, haul — every cubic yard tracked.

OmniTakeoff reads civil sheets and geotech reports to produce a cut/fill volume takeoff with shoring SF, dewatering needs, and rock-allowance bands pulled from the soils report.

  • Per-zone

    Cut/fill volumes

  • Yes

    Geotech-aware

  • Round-trip

    Haul calculations

What the takeoff produces

A excavation takeoff that survives review.

Every line item carries the source it came from — sheet, detail, and spec paragraph — so the senior estimator can audit in minutes, not hours.

  • Mass excavation cubic yards by zone (cut/fill)
  • Foundation excavation by element with over-excavation factor
  • Utility trench cubic yards by service and depth
  • Rock allowance bands per geotech borings
  • Shoring square feet (sheet pile / soldier pile) per spec
  • Dewatering need flagged from groundwater table elevation

Excavation features

Built for the way your office actually bids.

  • Civil-sheet parser

    Existing and proposed contours are differenced into a cut/fill volume map, not assumed.

  • Geotech-aware

    Boring logs, groundwater elevation, and over-excavation factors come from the soils report directly.

  • Spec-to-line linking

    Each volume and shoring line points at the spec paragraph (or soils report page) that called it.

  • Haul math

    Round-trip distance and truck count from a configurable haul-rate table.

Frequently asked

Questions we hear from estimators.

Do you handle dewatering as its own line?
Yes — pump capacity and duration are separate lines so a wet site doesn't surprise you mid-project.

Next move

Bring a real excavation bid. We'll run it.

The pilot is end-to-end: real plan set, real takeoff, real proposal. No demo data.

Excavation Takeoff & Bid Pipeline — OmniTakeoff