EC UNIT-5

❖ Rate Analysis: -
✓ Rate analysis deals with the determination of rates to complete an item of work.
✓ Rate means amount to execute unit quantity.
✓ Rates of items are required to find the actual amount of money required for
material and labour for that particular item.
✓ Rate of an item can be calculated by addition of the cost of material, cost of
labour, charge of tools and plants, supervision charge etc.
❖ Purpose and Necessity of rate analysis: -
→ Following are the main purpose of rate analysis-
➢ To find out the cost of construction of any work.
➢ To check the economical use of material and construction.
➢ To determine the rate of extra item.
➢ Rate analysis gives a well-defined picture of tools, services, and machinery
involved in the construction of a project.
➢ For preparing supplementary estimates.
 Factor affecting rate analysis: -
1. Specification: - Specification means detail description of any item of work, if the
grade of concrete and other quality parameter changes then rate of work will
change.
2. Location of site: - Rate of construction will also depend upon location and its
distance from source of material.
3. Types of Laboure and their rate: - When labours are skilled then rate of
construction will be low.
4. Quantity of material: - When project is very big, then large quantity (amount) of
material is required, this large quantity of material can be purchase at lower rate.
5. Profit and other expenses: - When supervision charge is low and other expenses
are low then rate of any work will be less.
 Data required for rate analysis: -
a. Market rate of material.
b. Task work of labour and their rate.
c. Rental change of tools and machine and other expenses.
 Task work or out turn work: -
➢ The capacity of doing work by a skilled labour in one (single) day is known as
task work or out turn work.
→ Factor affecting task work: -
1. Task work of a worker various according to their skill.
2. Site condition and nature of work.
3. Higher wedges.
❖ Approximate quantity of work Day: -
Sl. Item of work quantity Per. day
No.
1. Brick work with C.M. in foundation 1.25m3 Per mason
2. Brick work with CM. in superstructure 1 m3 Per mason
3. Half Brick in partition wall 5 m3 Per mason
4. P.C.C. work 5 m3 Per mason
5. R.C.C. work 3 m3 Per mason
6. 12mm thick plaster with C.M. 8m 3 Per mason
7. 3 coat white wash 70 m 3 Per person
8. Single coat white wash 200 m3 Per person
9. Singe coat paint in door and window 25 m3 Per person
10. Stone flooring with C.M. 10 m3 Per mason
11. Earthwork in ordinary soil 3 m3 Per labour
12. Earthwork in hard soil 2 m3 Per labour
13. Earthwork in rock soil 1m 3 Per labour
❖ Lead: -
 Lead is defined as the horizontal distance up to which material is transferred by
labour.
 Standard lead is 30m.

lead
❖ Lift: -
 Ig is defined as the vertical distance up to which material is lift upward.
 Standard lift is 1.5m.
• Contractor’s profit: - 10% of the cost of material and labour.
1
• Water charge: - 1 % of the cost of material and labour.
2
• Overhead Charge: - These are the indirect expenses that must be consider by
contractor.
➢ Overhead charge includes salaries of engineer, office staff, technical assistant,
travelling expenses.
❖ Labour rate: - Tate of labour varies place to place and it also change year by year.
Sl. Types of labour Rate per day.
No.
1. Mason 1st class 600₹
2. Mason 2nd class 500₹
3. Skilled labour 400₹
4. Unskilled labour 350₹
5. Bristi 300₹
6. Carpenter 800₹
7. Bar bender 500₹

1foot = 30.5cm =12 inches

1m = 3.28ft
1m3 = 35.28 cuft (ft3)
1ft3 = 0.028m3
 Market rate of material: -
1. Cement 350 to 450₹
2. Sand 1200₹/m3
3. Coarse aggregate 650 - 750₹/m3
4. Steel bar 75 - 85₹/kg
5. Brick 10₹/per brick
6. A.C. sheet 600₹/m2
7. Lime 10₹/kg
8. Binding wire 50₹/kg
 Density of material: -
a) Density of cement = 1440kg/m3
b) Density of sand = 1600kg/m3
c) Density of aggregate = 1700kg/m3
d) density of steel = 7850kg/m3
 cement bag: -
 weight of one cement bag = 50kg
 volume of one cement bag = 0.0347m3 = 0.035m3 = 35litre
 Dry volume of concrete > Wet volume of concrete
NOTE: - In case of concrete, we consider around 52% to 55% of void with respect to
wet concrete.
 Dry concrete मे 52% to 55% तक void रहता है |
 Dry volume of concrete = 1.52 × volume of wet concrete.
= 1.55 × volume of wet concrete.
❖ calculation of quantity of material for R.C.C and P.C.C. work: -
 Quantity of concrete = L × B × D
B
 Ignore quantity of steel, when you are calculating
D
quantity of concrete.
 Volume of wet concrete = L × B × D
❖ Calculation of quantity for plaster: - L
 volume of plaster = A × t
A = area of wall
t = thickness of plaster
 Volume of wet plaster = A × t
 In case of plaster, we consider around 30% of void with
respect to wet plaster.
 Due to irregularities in wall 25% of plaster is considered to be wastage.
 If surface in plane no wastage in consider.
 Dry volume of plaster > wet volume of plaster.
 Volume of dry mix = 1.55 × volume of wet mix.
❖ Laboure Required for Different work: -
1) Excavation
2) P.C.C
3) R.C.C
4) Brick work
5) 12mm thick plaster
Work Quantity Labour Mason Bhisti
required required
1. Excavation 10 m 3 9
2. P.C.C 10 m3 16 2 1
3. R.C.C 10 m3 24 3
4. Brick work 10 m3 20 10
5. Plaster 100 m2 12 12

 NOTE: - in 10m3 brick work we need-

a) No. of brick = 5000 (1m3 = 500 brick)
b) Quantity of mortar = 30% of volume of brick work
❖ Procedure of rate analysis of different items of work: -
→ The rate analysis is worked out for the particular item by following steps.
✓ The quantities of materials and number of labours should be calculated.
✓ Then their costs are added together, which will give the cost of material and labour.
✓ Add 1.5% as water charges and 10% contractor’s profit.
✓ The total of all these is the rate of item.
✓ If the transportation of material is done, then transportation charges are added.