Calculate volume of concrete used in a concrete brick veneer wall

[Anonymous]

I am adding a series of concrete and brick veneer screen walls to an existing structure.  Revit displays the concrete volume of the new footings fine, however.  The brick veneer walls show the objects total volume not the concrete volume.  This is not helpful at all.  Is there a way to calc just the concrete volume?

[costelos · Accepted solution]

you can create a New Field > Calculated Value , knowing that the quantity of mortar is approx 30 pecent in a brickwork:

In fact , to be more accurate you have to look in some technichal documentation to see exactly what is the brick/ mortar percentage variation related to the type and dimensions of bricks - as in my attachet file..

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the response!  The issue is that I have a cast-in-place concrete wall with a brick ledge.  I need the concrete CY , Brick count, and mortar voulme.

The wall is 1'-0" thick x 13'-0" high x 9'-6" long.  The brick ledge is 2'-6" from the bottom of the wall and is 4" deep.  This is developed as a wall type.

The only calculations I see in revit are the overall volume and area of the wall.

I am looking for a way to simplify the calculation/estiamtion of the concrete, brick count and mortar.

Thanks

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

I see where your solution was headed now.  I was a bit thick and missed the Material Takeoff altogether.

I have resolved my issue by creating Material Takeoffs for the Brick and the concrete for the Wall and the Footing.

In the Material takeoff Properties I created a calculated value as you suggested and added 2 calculated fields.  No of Brick, using a formula (Material Area * 6.3)*1.05.  This uses 6.3 brick per square foot and then adds a standard 5% buffer to the qty.  The Cost of Brick is similar using the number of brick * a set value.

On the image below you can see the filtering and resulting table.

You can do the same thing for the Concrete part of the wall and then create another takeoff for the footing.

Thanks again for your assistance.