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Build a resource contribution

Construction crew workface with an excavator, tipper truck and haul route.

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1. Project brief

The installation work

A paid day of labour and plant delivers a measured length of main. You are pricing that contribution, then testing how a changed output affects the estimate.

120 m main · labour and plant

Unit rates · Training fixture

A paid day produces 18 metres

Calculate the labour and plant contribution, then test a different output and update the estimate.

Terms for this task

Productivity is the accepted output over a stated time. A unit rate expresses cost for one measured unit, here one metre.

On site

Connect the resources to the output

Illustrative scene. Use the lesson figures and records for measurements.

One paid day£2,640.00Labour and plant

Accepted output18 mper paid day

Resource contribution£146.67/m120 m: £17,600.00

Explicit training fixture. Materials and other direct costs are outside this component.

Evidence and pricing basis

Pricing basis and scope

The explicit fixture is £2,640 per paid day, 18 metres per day and 120 metres. It excludes materials and other direct costs. The original hourly resource-rate lesson remains available.

Return to the hourly unit-rate lesson

Put time and output on the same basis

Calculate the contribution per metre. You will carry its formula, exclusions and source into the existing spreadsheet.

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