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Topic 2 - Week 4-5 - Earthworks & Roadworks
Topic 2 - Week 4-5 - Earthworks & Roadworks
PART 1
Week 4 – Week 5
Civil engineering works
Earthworks and Roadworks
LEARNING OUTCOMES
(CO1-PO1)
Site clearance
Item Description Unit Quantity
Cut, fell and remove in bulk all tress m2
Irrespective of diameter and height
Including grubbing out stumps, roots
etc including clearing and removing
existing debris, fence, scrapped
materials, abandoned huts, structure
and vehicles (if any) and the like from
site to contractors own dump and fell
remove in bulk all scrubs etc and grub
all stumps, roots and strip off top soil
and removed same off site as directed
by the S.O and as to the requirement
Example of Bill of Quantities of Site Clearance work
of the Department of Environment
(DOE).
• Measured the net size of the excavated void with no allowance for
working space.
• excavation item is one item and filling and compaction is one item in
the B.Q
Suitable material
Unsuitable material
Hard material
Rock
FL
cut
cut
Swamp area
Swamp – flood
with water
Longitudinal section of road
OGL
Cut area
Slope
Slope
FL
c) Prismoidal formula
Volume = 1/6 (total length) x ( area of 1st section + 4( area of middle
section + area of last section)
sd b sd
d s:1
embankment
Fill
Surface area = bd + 2(1/2 sdd)
= bd +
sd2