A Purchase-Ready Takeoff for 58 Units Across Five Floors
A Los Angeles developer needed material quantities for every trade, organized floor by floor so they could order direct from suppliers.
About the Client
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Wilton Place Apartments
Wilton Place Apartments is a 5-story, 58-unit wood-frame apartment building in Los Angeles, California, with 26,774 SF of covered area. It sits on a concrete foundation with the heavy shear-wall and hold-down package typical of Los Angeles seismic design.
Industry
Private Multifamily
Year
2026
Services
All-Trades Material Takeoff
The Challenge
The client needed material quantities for every trade, organized so they could order by floor and send a direct ship list to suppliers.
Five floors of repeating units make it easy to double-count or to miss items entirely. The risk was not in any single measurement but in how the repetition was tracked across levels.
1,950
line items taken off
25
trades covered
58 units
across five floors
The Solution
We took off 1,950 line items across 25 trades, from concrete and Simpson connectors through finishes, plumbing, mechanical, electrical, and low voltage.
The work was delivered as three linked views: a detailed estimate with drawing references, a floor-by-floor summary for each of the five levels, and an overall summary for purchasing. We reconciled the summaries against the detailed estimate so totals match across every tab.
Results & Outlook
A purchase-ready takeoff the client could hand straight to lumber yards and suppliers, with each floor’s materials broken out for phased delivery.
Key quantities: 537 CY of concrete, 10,880 pieces of framing lumber, 2,647 sheets of structural sheathing and subfloor, 4,100 sheets of gypsum board, 580+ hold-downs with 6,000+ framing clips, 79,000+ LF of electrical wire and cable, and 256 windows.
End Note
On repetitive multifamily work, the value is in the organization as much as the count. Ordering by floor only works if the floors were quantified separately in the first place.
