Project Costs

The costs for this project can be broken down into both design costs and construction costs.

Design Costs

The design costs for this project has been broken down by tasks.  The information can be seen in the table below.  The total design hours came to 468 hours.  This total number of hours is significantly less than what was estimated in the proposal with a total of 1182 hours.  There are many reasons for this over-estimate. One of which is that, CLL provided a great deal of information that aided in the analysis for the design project of the RDC. 

Design Cost Breakdown

Task

Hours

Billable Rate

Total Cost

Meetings

68

$114.00

$7,752.00

Survey

14

$114.00

$1,596.00

Traffic Count

4.5

$114.00

$513.00

Hydrology/Hydraulics

37.5

$114.00

$4,275.00

Retention Wall

47.5

$114.00

$5,415.00

Layout Design

86.5

$114.00

$9,861.00

Construction Plans

40

$114.00

$4,560.00

Cost Analysis

4.5

$114.00

$513.00

Reports/presentations

101

$114.00

$11,514.00

Other

64.5

$114.00

$7,353.00

TOTAL

468

 

$53,352.00

 

Construction Costs

The costs for the construction of this project are included in the table below. All of the projects listed were the components needed to complete the design for the RDC. These components have corresponding units in accordance with how the projects were measured. The quantity was the amount of each unit that the project needed for the design. With the total price and quantity multiplied together, a total price for each project could be determined. The sum of these prices gave the total price for both labor and material of each project. All of these prices were taken from RS Means, which is where both the labor and materials costs came from. The table below shows all the values found.

 Construction Cost Breakdown

Project

Total per Unit

QTY

TOTAL

Cut/Fill

$1.91

CY

23422

$12,178

Asphalt Pavement

$2.45

SF

31510

$77,294

Concrete Pavement

$1,969.00

CY

150

$12,337

Retaining Wall

$267.00

LF

402

$214,668

Waste Collection

$5,000.00

EA

6

$30,000

Barrier

$200.00

EA

12

$2,400

Railing

$58.50

LF

402

$23,517

Pavement Marking

$30.00

EA

3

$90

Signage

$78.00

EA

5

$390

Water protection

$1.29

SF

960

$1,239

Regulatory Rqmts.

$2,000.00

TOT

1

$2,000

Chains

$6.50

EA

8

$52

Rip Rap

$30.50

TON

100

$3,050

Bollards

$200.00

EA

14

$2,800

Mechanical Ledge

$1,000.00

EA

6

$6,000

Contingency

 

 

20%

$77,603

 

 

 

TOTAL

$465,616

 

 All of the projects are explained in the design portion listed above except for the contingency. The contingency is defined as the unexpected prices that could occur during the actual implementation of the design. With a 20% contingency, all unknown prices are covered, giving a total right under $500,000. With a maximum budget of one million dollars, the total design budget was much less than the total budget used.