Videos & Downloads
Earthwork Walkthroughs & Tools
Videos
AGTEK Earthwork takeoffs, ETU Estimate™, ETU Hyperlink, GPS Models, and Construction Estimating and more!
Hump Day Hints
Quick Take-off Hints. Fun anecdotes
Allen walks through an AGTEK project from the beginning to end. Part 1 of 3.
Learn how to perform take-offs fast!
Pull up a chair. Come join me!
Favorites
Intro to AES - AGTEK Earthwork Takeoff Walkthrough.
Setting up the Google Earth file. Look at ETU Estimate™ and ETU Hyperlink.
Earthwork Take-off - Quick, Accurate, Inexpensive
Allen walks through a finished earthwork takeoff package and what the client receives, the standard seven files that come with the job.
What is in it, how it is delivered, and the part that matters most: the AGTEK file, the CAD file, and the data are yours to keep.
The whole package lands in a secure Dropbox to share with your crew.
How I Bid Jobs - Construction Estimating
Allen walks the Construction Estimating service page start to finish, then goes through a couple of real bids: the sample proposal, the exclusions list, and how he thinks through scope. Built with ETU Estimate™, a custom estimating program written in Excel powered by Visual Basic.der.
A GPS machine control model on a large Ontario housing tract, plus website services.
A review of a GPS machine control model on a large housing tract in Ontario. This one also shows the website services and what goes into making your website better.
The Anderson Estimating Service website was recently rebranded, and the videos are now top 6 for "AGTEK takeoff."
Bid Review by Chief Estimator. Proposal and bid, item by item.
I went through proposal, reviewed bid items. Used FREE AI Summary. See the download below!
Backfill Calculator: Completely Different, Easy to Use, Free
A completely different way to do a retaining wall backfill takeoff, and you can watch a full wall run in under a minute.
The Free Backfill Calculator from Anderson Estimating Service gives you the quantities: rock backfill, dirt cap, and dir
Estimating Tools & Calculators
Retaining Wall Backfill Calculator
Pick the image that matches your situation & enter your wall heights, back cut, and slopes. It calculates the backfill yardage, broken into dirt, rock, and dirt cap, per wall and for the job.
FAST & POWERFUL TOOL - MUST CHECK IT OUT!!!
AI Soils Summary
Free and simple. Drop this file into whatever AI you already use, along with your soils report. It hands back a clean Word summary that tells you everything you need to know about the report, every line referenced to its page in the original.
Put both files, along with soils report & logo in any AI chat
Earthwork Shrinkage Calculator
Free and simple. Put in your in-place densities, your max density, and the compaction required. It calculates shrink or bulk on each boring and the project average Download AI Instructions Set Below - Just drop it in any an AI chat
Coming soon:
🔧 Trench Calculator Pipe trench excavation, pipe zone material, spoils, and backfill quantities. Includes excavator production rates by machine.
🔧 Water volume Calculator Gallons of water needed to bring overexcavated material to optimum moisture for compaction.
More tools being added.