The Build Budget Workbook
The ArkitecTRUE workbook for an extension, renovation or new build: from a builder's price per square foot to the whole cost of the project
A builder's price per square foot covers the construction. The project also pays for design and engineering, permits and surveys, the site, the allowances that turn out low, and the changes you make once work has started. The Build Budget Workbook turns those into one number from your own figures. Part 1 reads the quote for what it leaves out, lists the soft costs, prices the site, sizes a contingency, works out the all-in figure (a 400 square foot extension at $250 a square foot came to $333.75 once everything was counted) and orders materials with waste and spares. Part 2 keeps the budget through the build: stage payments tied to finished work with a holdback, a change-order log against the contingency, and a proper close-out. For homeowners planning a build; not architectural, structural, legal or financial advice. With your purchase comes a personalised sheet with your construction figure, contingency at three levels and a stage payment plan.
Look inside
Two full pages from the workbook, exactly as printed. Click either to read it at full size before you decide.
What is in it
- What a builder's quote per square foot leaves out
- Soft costs: design, engineering, permits and surveys
- Pricing the site, and sizing the contingency
- The all-in number and ordering materials with waste
- Stage payments with a holdback, tied to finished work
- A change-order log and a proper close-out
- All-in budget, change-order log and payment schedule
- Bonuses: a quickstart, quote questions and a contingency card
- A personalised sheet: your contingency and payment plan
- ✓ 27 printable pages
- ✓ 9 sections, worksheets and templates
- ✓ A second PDF worked out from the numbers you enter
- ✓ No account needed, just an email address
- ✓ Instant download; link valid 7 days
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The workbook complements the free Building Cost Estimator. It prices the construction; the workbook builds the whole project's budget around it and keeps it there.