Manage Materials and Site Improvements

The Material and Site Improvement Manager enables you to create and manage libraries of materials and site improvements for takeoff operations and calculations.

Themanager comes with a sample library of materials and site improvements with predefined attributes. This library provides a good starting point for understanding the types of materials and site improvements you can use to build surfaces for takeoff.

Understanding Materials and Site Improvements

• Material - a naturally-occurring or manufactured substance from which a site improvement can be made at a construction job site. Examples include soil, rock, limestone, cement concrete, asphaltic concrete, asphalt/bitumen, wood, PVC, and ductile iron.
• Site improvement - an object that a construction contractor builds out of a material at a job site. Examples include curbs, sidewalks, pipes, curb inlets, roadway bases, and surface courses.

Define your materials and site improvements carefully. The properties that you set for them in the manager will enable you to calculate these values in the Takeoff Reportand Earthwork Report:

• Existing versus proposed surface volumes, including:
  • Excavation volumes: bank cut and fill, cut swell and fill shrink, and adjusted cut and fill
  • Excavation areas: Cut, fill, and total areas
  • Removal quantities: Area and volume
  • Replacement quantities: Area and fill
• Site improvement quantities, including:
  • Areas, lengths, and counts per area of interest

Prerequisites:

• See the Subscription Plans page. For a license matrix by command, see the License page in the TBC Community. Also see View and manage licensed features.

To access the manager:

• Select Material and Site Improvement Manager in Surfaces > Subgrade.
• Right-click a subgrade surface or surface texture, and select Material and Site Improvement Manager from the context menu.