Shoring & Elevated Decks Takeoff & Estimating Bluebeam Tool Set

Takeoff & estimating tool set for elevated slab formwork, shoring and reshoring, built for concrete contractors, formwork estimators and general contractors who price their own decks. This tool set covers 13 takeoff tool sets with 253 tools and 5 detail tool sets with 229 figures — every takeoff tool a native Bluebeam area, length or count measurement that lands in the Markups List ready to total, and a separate metric edition of the same tools measured in metres and square metres.

A deck is drawn once as an area with the tool for its slab thickness and floor height, and the tool prices the panels or plywood, the joists and stringers or ledgers, the shores, props, frames or towers on the grid the system rates at that height, the braces, tripods, mudsills or rails, the release, and the labor to erect, strip and move — shoring included, so no forms-in-place price is added on top. Post shores lose capacity with height and the tools carry the tighter grids; frames do not. Beams and drop panels are priced complete with their own shoring, slab edges, steps, pour strips and stair soffits are drawn as lines or areas, openings and shafts are counted with captioned symbols, and reshoring is priced per level per month.

Every tool drops its own numbers into 67 custom columns: quantity and contact area; forms, ties, hardware and consumables; up to three support lines (stringers or ledgers, shores or towers, braces and rails); rental over the cost period, labor hours at first use with the reuse curve applied, labor cost, equipment, total cost, sell price, cost per square foot, forms on rent and concrete volume. Labor rate, uses per month, waste and markup sit in plain Number columns — set them once for the whole takeoff or overwrite any row — and no price, wage or hour is embedded in a formula. Every tool ships priced: Symons parts are priced by catalog weight against the published aftermarket, used-market and dealer prices and rented at a stated percentage of purchase value per 28-day month; shores, frames, beams, plywood and hardware carry sourced defaults; labor is RSMeans-class hours per 100 square feet at first use. Every rate, its source and its confidence is listed on the included project rate card, and a calculation guide shows every formula with worked examples.

The 5 detail tool sets hold every figure of the Symons DeckFast and Drop Head application guides and brochures and the Hi-Lite aluminum shoring brochure as vector snapshots — line work and callouts as drawn by the manufacturer, one figure per tool, named by system and subject — to drop beside the takeoff to show the crew which bearing, clip, pattern or erection step the price assumes.

Delivered as a Revu profile that installs the tool sets, columns and Markups List layout in one import, plus the 18 tool set files and the column set on their own, in imperial and metric editions, with the calculation guide and project rate card. It shares its column set with the Concrete Forming tool set, so both load into one profile.

Examples of tools included:

Symons DeckFast

• Modular decks for 5 to 22 in slabs to 12.5 ft on 350 shores and to 19 ft on 550 shores: panels, post shores on the rated pattern, bearings, extensions, safety rails, release and labor

Symons Drop Head

• Post, ledger and LVL joist decks by slab thickness, standard and ShorFast extended heights, with early stripping

FrameFast, ShorFast & Hi-Lite

• FrameFast decks by slab thickness in one to three tiers and FrameFast towers, Hi-Lite 12K, 16K and 25K aluminum decks by slab thickness, ShorFast high-bay towers

Garage Beam System

• Post-tensioned beam and slab levels per square foot, GBS beam forms per foot and capital forms

Post shores + aluminum beams + plywood

• Conventional decks on 10,000 lb steel post shores, aluminum stringers and joists and HDO plywood by slab thickness and floor height

Generic deck classes

• Prop and timber beam decks, drop-head panel decks, frame shoring decks by capacity and tiers, shoring tower decks to 32 ft, flying tables by size, job-built plywood decks on post shores, waffle slab and one-way joist pan decks, generic post shore decks, all with editable factors for any brand

Beams & drops (shored)

• Interior and spandrel beams complete with shoring from 12 x 12 to 24 x 48 in, drop panels from 6 x 6 to 10 x 10 ft, column capitals

Elevated slab edges & openings

• Slab edges in wood and steel, slab steps, pour strip bulkheads in wood and stay-form, stair and landing soffits, overhang bracket edges, opening and shaft blockouts by size

Reshoring & backshoring

• Reshoring by slab thickness and number of levels on post shores or drop-head posts, reshore towers per month

Shoring accessories

• Mudsills, perimeter safety rail and cable, deck infill strips, screw jacks, U-heads, base plates, extension tubes, cross braces, post shores, tripods, drop heads, aluminum joists and stringers, panel reface and access towers

Labor & equipment

• Carpenter, laborer and foreman hours, crew days, cranes by the hour and day, telehandler, forklift, skid steer, compressor, generator and buggy days, freight, form cleaning and repair, engineering, mobilization and storage allowances

Assemblies

• Complete floors per square foot — flat plate, beam and slab, post-tensioned flat plate, podium and transfer slabs, GBS parking level — priced in one markup

Details

• 229 vector figures from the DeckFast and Drop Head application guides and brochures and the Hi-Lite aluminum shoring brochure