ConcreteCalc™ Pro reduces waste, cuts estimating time
Improves design accuracy
The ConcreteCalc™ Pro is an advanced yard, feet-inch-fraction concrete construction-math calculator from Calculated Industries, makers of the Construction Master Pro. The easy-to-use ConcreteCalc Pro helps improve design accuracy, cuts estimating time in the field or in the office, and helps prevent re-work with fast, accurate solutions for bricks and blocks, square-ups, loads, area, volume, rebar, drop and stairs. It is an ideal tool for highway, paving and masonry contractors.
Tony Genier of Concrete Professionals, Inc., in Middletown Springs, VT, says, “We are a small company and time is money. The calculator helps set diagonals with perfection. We can also quickly calculate the number of bricks or blocks we’ll need for building a wall or how much mud we need for a pad.”
This is how easy it is to calculate the number of standard bricks (2-1/4" x 8")
needed for an 8' high, 36' 6" long wall:
- Calculate and enter the brick area: 18 square inches
- Multiply the wall length times height: 292 square feet
- Find number of bricks: 2,336
- Enter the block size.
- Add the wall lengths.
- Multiply times wall height.
- Solve for number of blocks: 169.5 (170)
- Add a 5% waste factor: 177.95 (178) blocks.
- Weight per foot: 1.042 pounds per foot
- Total linear feet: 533 feet, 6 inches
- Total rebar weight: 555.843 pounds
For more information on the ConcreteCalc Pro, including videos, go to www.calculated.com.
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Calculated Industries is one of the world’s leading developers and manufacturers of specialty calculators and measuring devices. The company has been awarded the #1 Quality rating three times in the Builder Instruments category in the Builder Magazine Brand Use Study.
