CUT OR FILL SLOPE

Slide 1
One of the purposes of cut/excavation and fill/embankment is to minimize the quantities of earthworks.
Examples of earthworks from our previous subject are clearing and grabbing, staking out, excavation for
footings, wall and septic and lastly is filling and compacting.
Aside from that, we intend to balance out the cut and fill quantities in order to avoid borrowing or
wasting any material.

Slide 4
Cut sections of roadway or rail are characterized by the roadway being lower in elevation than the
surrounding terrain.
Fill sections manifest as elevated sections of a roadway or track bed.

This process is usually accomplished with earthmoving equipment. Bulldozers and excavators remove
land from cut locations and transfer it to dump trucks. The filled earth is then compacted with a roll-
style or plate compactor. This compacting process removes air before any construction takes place.

Slide 6
Project planners use detailed and intelligent cut and fill maps to avoid such problems, providing
exhaustive plans to help guide excavation teams to the most efficient use of mass and labor. Designers
create drawings called cut and fill diagrams.

Amount of material from cuts roughly matches the amount of fill needed to make nearby embankments
to minimize the amount of construction labor

Cut and fill takes material from cut excavations and uses this to make fill sections. It costs resources to
excavate material, relocate it, and to compact and otherwise prepare the filled sections. The technique
aims to minimize the effort of relocating excavated material while also taking into account other
constraints such as maintaining a specified grade over the route