Building pad cut, 2 ft average — $0.23/SF
New Construction
$0.23 / SF
Building pad cut, 2 ft average — $0.23/SF costs about $0.23 per square foot installed. This is a published starting point and varies by region and job.
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What’s in this rate
Square-foot unit for a commercial building pad cut averaging about 2 feet deep, loaded to trucks. Deeper or irregular cuts should use the per-cubic-yard pad excavation unit. Haul-off, rock, fill, and fine grade are separate.
Includes
- machine cut building pad averaging 2 ft depth (per SF of pad)
- load haul trucks
- pad perimeter grade check / spotter
- operator and laborer time and equipment listed in the build-up
- stated material waste and small tools
Excludes
- haul and disposal
- rock
- cuts materially deeper than ~2 ft average (use earthwork-pad-excavation-common per CY)
- fill / base / fine grade
- dewatering
- tax / freight
- after-hours / contaminated soil
- testing / staking / permits
Build-up
- Operator, 0.0008889 hr × $53.00
- $0.05
- Laborer, 0.0004444 hr × $41.00
- $0.02
- Material and small tools
- $0.00
- Equipment, hydraulic excavator ~35 t / ~1.5–2 CY bucket class, 0.0008889 hr per unit
- $0.12
- Direct rate (labor, material, equipment, and tools)
- $0.19 / SF
- Overhead 10% of direct
- $0.02
- Fee 10% of (direct and overhead)
- $0.02
- Loaded rate
- $0.23 / SF
Worked extension: 10,000 SF of commercial building pad cut, 2 ft average depth × $0.23 = $2,300.00 loaded for 10,000 SF. Quantity is a worked extension.
Related rates
- Bulk excavation, common earth — $2.54 / CY
- Export clean soil off-site, 10 miles — $16.77 / CY
- Off-site haul, 10 miles — $10.01 / CY
- Structural fill, 8 in lifts — $3.75 / CY
- Fine grading, motor grader (large area) — $0.12 / SF
- Subgrade preparation and proof roll — $0.12 / SF
- Over-excavation and recompaction — $6.09 / CY
- Building pad excavation, common earth — $3.04/CY — $3.04 / CY
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