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Aveeral Jain, Civil Engineer, Project costing and commercials

Answered July 17, 2015

Rate Analysis can be furcated into the basic sub-heads

1. Material

2. Labor

3. Plant, Machinery, Vehicles, Tools and Tackles

4. Indirect Costs, Overheads and Bottom-line.

MATERIAL
Shuttering material can further be bifurcated into to sub-heads, System Material (Usually metal
components like MS Plates, Aluminium primary and secondary beams, base jacks, ledgers, verticals etc.)
and Shuttering consumables (Spigot pins, pine wood used as runners, battens, ply etc.)

Depending on your temporary loading requirement, scope of project, available funds and project timeline,
finalize the type of formwork system to be used (ref. Formwork or TYPES OF FORMWORK
(SHUTTERING)

System components usually can be used multiple times and hence one must account only the depreciation
for the period of time through which the system is being used. For a project as a whole, you must also
account for idling time. Details on methods to depreciate the system should be worked out based on the
lifetime, capital investment and time value of money.

Consumables should be estimated based on actual usage. It changes as per the elements like verticals
(columns and walls) and horizontals (slabs, beams etc.)

LABOR
Depending upon the type the formwork system implemented, labour requirements are as follows:

Labor for Shuttering making/fabrication - to fabricate panels of specific size and remaking of
previously used panels.

Labor for
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and Extra for working at levels above ground floor.

Labor charges for Cross Bracing, Back Propping and other Misc. activities if necessary

Labor charges for De-shuttering, De-staging and Housekeeping.

- Determine a productivity based on past experience/local-national-international standard.

- Determine Wages taking in account minimum wage, Provident fund and other mandatory and
statutory requirements.
- Calculate the labor cost as per the wages and productivity determined.

Plant, Machinery, Vehicles, Tools and Tackles

If you are estimating for a project, you must take care of all the required P&M and load the same amount
on total quantity of shuttering. By this you'll get an average unit rate. E.g. Project wide tower crane expense
amounts to ₹10,000,000, on a project where roughly 1 Mi SqM of shuttering is to be done. This amount
need to be distributed on all the activities where tower crane will be used. Roughly load 30% of this on
Formwork.

= (10,000,000*30%)/1,000,000 = ₹3/sqm

Indirect Costs, Overheads and Bottom-line.

This includes all the expenses which cannot be directly attributed to, but are incurred to carry out the
proposed activity. E.g. salary of design engineer, fabrication supervisor, foreman and project manager or
office running expenses or water and electricity charges

Bottom line is the profit at which the firm wants to operate. End of day "Bottom line" is the final motivation
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Hope this helps. Comment for further inquiries.

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Ajinkya Joshi, Civil Engineer, Construction Freak.

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Answered July 16, 2015

I am assuming you are looking for a rate analysis for shuttering with an intention of quoting the rate in a
bid.

Rate analysis for shuttering changes quite a lot depending on the type of structure and the type of
shuttering scheme. For a building,you get a higher number of repetitions. The number of repetitions will
further depend on the material you will use. Similarly for shuttering for a water tank or a podium slab, you
will get fewer repetitions since the plan and the sections will not be typical for each time you use the
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