Battleaxe & shared driveway
A crossover, a hardstand driveway, drainage and the services run down it. The cheapest way to service infill lots.
from $16,650 a lot — 20 lots, shared driveway, sand
Subdivision civils · roads, drainage, sewer, water
Civils priced per lot, before you have got drawings — Neerabup to Baldivis.
Your feasibility has an empty civils line and no tender pack to fill it with. Put a defensible number in it now, then ring the estimator.
14 years · 1,180 lots serviced Zero practical-completion defects carried past 30 days
- Every civil contractor in Perth wants a tender pack before they will give you a number. Your feaso needs one today, so here it is: our rate, per lot, on the page.
- Twenty lots costs less per lot than four — $16,650 against $20,350 on the same sand and the same shared driveway. If you are staging, stage bigger, not smaller.
- Water Corporation and Western Power charges and any local-government contribution are not in our number, and there is no figure for any of them anywhere on this page. They are set by other people. We tell you which ones your job attracts.
What the civils cost, per lot
Sandover’s own works, ex GST: bulk earthworks, road pavement and seal, stormwater and soakwells, sewer reticulation and connections, water reticulation, and the lot service points. Design, survey and authority charges sit outside these rates and are named where they belong.
Four-lot infill
The most common green-title job in the metro. Mobilisation spread over four lots instead of twenty is why this one is dearer per lot.
from $20,350 a lot — 4 lots, shared driveway, sand
New cul-de-sac road
Road reserve, subgrade and pavement, kerb, a turning head, stormwater, sewer and water reticulation to every lot.
from $31,000 a lot — 8 lots, cul-de-sac, sand
Full road, kerb, path and lighting
Kerb both sides, a verge, a footpath, street lighting conduit and poles, and the drainage to carry it.
from $42,000 a lot — 8 lots, full road, sand
Rock and clay ground
Limestone caprock and clay lenses mean rippers, rock breakers and imported fill instead of a scraper on sand.
adds 30% on the per-lot rate, every road type
Feasibility number by phone
Tell the estimator the lot count, the suburb and what the ground is doing. You get a number and the exclusions in one call.
$0 no obligation, no drawings needed
Local-government minor works
Crossovers, drainage upgrades, car parks and footpath renewals for councils and their contractors.
Priced against your own schedule of rates no figure here — it is your schedule, not ours
Authority and headworks charges
Water and sewer headworks, electricity connection and subsidy, and any local-government development contribution.
Set by others, paid at cost we publish no figure for any of them
Price your feaso
Lots, road, ground. That is the whole estimate.
Sandover’s civil works only, ex GST. Every figure is our own rate — nothing here is an authority charge.
Eight lots either side of a new cul-de-sac road, taken off the existing street.
$31,000
a lot
$248,000 for the whole job — 8 lots, new cul-de-sac road, sand
This number is Sandover’s civil works only. Water Corporation and Western Power charges, and any local-government development contribution, are set by other people. They are not in this figure, and there is no figure for any of them anywhere on this page.
A subdivision like this one typically attracts a water and sewer headworks charge, an electricity connection and subsidy charge, and a contribution to the local government. We tell you which ones your job attracts and you pay them direct, or we pass them through at cost with the authority’s own paperwork attached. We will not print a number we cannot stand behind.
The same road and the same ground, lot count by lot count
- 4 LOTS$34,100$136,400
- 8 LOTS$31,000$248,000
- 12 LOTS$29,450$353,400
- 20 LOTS$27,900$558,000
Change the job
Lots in this stage
Road treatment
Ground
Eight lots, new cul-de-sac road, sand ground. $31,000 a lot, $248,000 in total.
A feasibility number, not a tender price. It covers our civil works across 36 combinations of lot count, road treatment and ground, and it is the same arithmetic the estimator uses on the phone. Design, survey, planning approvals, landscaping, retaining and every authority charge sit outside it — the estimator lists them for your job in the call.
Four things happen, in this order
Most developers ring us the week the civils line stops being a guess. This is what follows.
The feaso number
Lot count, suburb, what the ground is doing. Fifteen minutes on the phone and you have a per-lot rate and a written list of what is excluded.
We read the design
When your engineer has drawings, we price them properly — earthworks volumes off the levels, pavement off the pavement design, services off the layout.
On the ground
One superintendent, our own crews on earthworks and drainage, and a programme you get weekly. Wet weather and rock variations go to you the day they happen, not at claim time.
Practical completion
As-constructed survey, the compaction and CCTV records, and a defects list closed before the maintenance period starts rather than during it.
Why developers move their civils to us
A number before there is a drawing
Every other contractor needs a tender pack. We will give you a defensible per-lot rate off three facts, and we will tell you what it does not include in the same sentence.
Our own plant on the dirt
Scrapers, excavators, a grader and a roller out of the Neerabup yard. A wet week is a re-programme, not a lost month waiting on a hire fleet.
We price our work, not other people’s
Authority headworks, connection charges and development contributions reach you as the authority’s own invoice, at cost. There is no handling margin buried in a line called “approvals”.
Rock is a variation you see coming
If the geotech says caprock, we price it in at the start. If it turns up anyway, you get the survey, the volume and the rate the day the machine finds it.
What the people who engage us say
Demonstration copy for a fictional business. On a real build these come from the client’s own referees and reviews feed.
“I had a twelve-lot feaso sitting on a guess for three weeks because nobody would give me a civils number without a design. Sandover gave me a per-lot rate on the phone and a list of what was outside it. The tendered price landed close enough that the feaso still held.”
“They hit limestone on the second cul-de-sac and had the survey, the volume and the rate in my inbox that afternoon. Every other contractor I have used saved that conversation for the final claim.”
“We use them for crossovers and drainage renewals against our own schedule of rates. Their as-constructeds and CCTV come in with the claim, so my engineers are not chasing paperwork six weeks later.”
Where the plant works
Out of the Neerabup yard, north to Alkimos and south to Baldivis, east to Ellenbrook and Wattle Grove. Beyond that we still price the job — we just say up front what the travel and the accommodation do to it.
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North corridor
Neerabup, Alkimos, Wanneroo. Greenfield stages and the yard, so plant is on site the morning after mobilisation.
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North-east
Ellenbrook and the Swan valley fringe. Sand over clay in most of it, which is the middle ground setting on the estimate.
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East and south-east
Wattle Grove, Forrestdale, Byford. Clay and caprock country — assume the rock and clay setting until the geotech says otherwise.
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South-west
Baldivis and the Rockingham corridor. Sand, and the cheapest per-lot civils we do.
- Suburb not on the list? Ring the estimator with the lot count and the address. If it is inside the metro we will price it; if it is outside, we will tell you what travel does to the per-lot rate before you ask.
What developers ask before they ring
How accurate is this at feasibility stage?
It is a per-lot rate off three facts, so treat it as a feasibility line, not a tender price. It is built from what we have actually charged across 1,180 serviced lots, and it is the same arithmetic the estimator quotes on the phone. Once your engineer has drawings we price the real quantities and the number moves — usually because the earthworks volumes or the drainage design are not what the three facts implied.
What is not in the number?
Design and engineering, feature and as-constructed survey, planning and subdivision approvals, geotechnical investigation, retaining walls, landscaping and public open space, fencing, and every authority charge — water and sewer headworks, electricity connection and subsidy, and any local-government development contribution. Those last ones are set by other people, we do not publish a figure for them, and we tell you which apply to your job.
Who does the survey and the design?
Not us, and that is deliberate. You engage a licensed surveyor and a civil engineer, and we build what they draw. We will happily talk to them before the design is finished — a road grade or a drainage layout that suits the plant is cheaper to build, and that conversation is free.
What actually changes when you hit rock?
Sand comes out with a scraper. Caprock and clay need rippers, a rock breaker, and imported fill to replace what will not compact, and the drainage trenches slow to a crawl. On this estimate that is the rock and clay setting, which adds 30% to the per-lot rate. If it turns up mid-job you get the survey, the measured volume and the rate the day the machine finds it — not in the final claim.
Do you do local-government minor works?
Yes — crossovers, drainage upgrades, car parks and footpath renewals. Those are priced against the council’s own schedule of rates, so there is no figure for them on this page: it is your schedule, not ours. Send the works order and we will price it line by line.
How far ahead do we need to book you?
Ring as soon as the civils line exists, even if that is a year out — the call costs nothing and it gets your stage into the programme conversation early. We will tell you honestly what the crews look like for your window. We will not promise you a start date on a job that has not been approved yet.
Book a call with the estimator
Six things, because six things is what the call needs. Business hours, the estimator rings you back the same day with a per-lot rate and the list of what sits outside it.
Booked — that is everything the estimator needs.
On a live site this would be in the estimating inbox now and you would get a call back the same working day, with a per-lot rate and the written list of what sits outside it. Because this page is a demonstration, nothing was sent and nothing was stored.
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