Quote: earthworks and excavation
E.g.: digging and site preparation before construction
Describe the required platform, foundation excavation or other work. Provide drawings, levels, access and known ground information. Established facts and assumptions must be distinguishable before quotation.
Assess effects on existing work
Buildwise highlights ground, groundwater, services and structures within excavation influence. Define investigations and protection first. This Belgian technical source does not establish Luxembourg procedures.
Set levels and boundaries
Request setting-out plans, excavation limits, initial and final levels and working margins. Assign formation or platform acceptance before following work. Foundation type is not determined by available machinery.
Plan safe work
Define excavation stability, access, vehicle routes and storage. Locate services with relevant parties. Plan water management and support; pumping or open excavation should not be improvised.
Decide soil destination
Establish suitability for specified reuse. Confirm storage, destination and acceptance conditions. Reuse removes neither checking needs nor permission requirements for depositing material.
Confirm procedures
Check project-specific approvals for work, access, water and soil placement. Do not assume a building permit covers every associated activity. Define necessary agreements for neighbouring access or works.
Indicative prices in Luxembourg
On quotation
Compare cubic-metre rates only with the same measurement method and scope. Separate excavation, handling, reuse, transport and acceptance. Define levels and acceptance criteria for the delivered ground.
Subsidies and grants
No grant is deducted from the budget shown here. If a quote mentions support, request the exact scheme and confirmation of your eligibility before including it in financing.
Frequently asked questions
Can municipality location identify the soil?
General information cannot replace project and plot investigations.
Does a borehole guarantee final cost?
No. Define what it establishes, untested areas and remaining assumptions.
Always cheaper to keep soil?
Include characterisation, storage and reinstatement rather than only avoided transport.
Are foundations included?
Define excavation, formation acceptance and foundation construction separately.