Site Access

Select the type of access available to the home’s location from the following choices:

  • Flat Area/Easy Access Roads: Site accessibility is easy for people, equipment, and materials to get to, in, and around the site. Accessibility for items such as a place for workers to park their vehicles, a level area for unloading and storing materials, and the ability of delivery trucks to get directly to the site is also relatively easy.
  • Slightly Congested Road: Site accessibility may be slightly difficult for people, equipment, and materials to get to, in, and around the site. Accessibility for items such as a place for workers to park their vehicles may also be slightly difficult. There may be a slightly unlevel area for the unloading and storage of materials and delivery trucks may or may not be able to get directly up to the site.
  • Narrow Roads/Hillside Area: Site accessibility may be slightly difficult for people, equipment, and materials to get to, in, and around the site. Accessibility for items such as a place for workers to park their vehicles may also be slightly difficult. Due to site slope, storage and unloading of materials requires accommodations not observed in level sites. Materials and delivery trucks may not be able to get directly to the site.
  • Difficult Access/Steep Terrain: Site accessibility may be difficult for people, equipment, and materials to get to, in, and around the site. Accessibility for items such as a place for workers to park their vehicles may be difficult and delivery trucks may have difficulty getting to the site. In some cases, materials may need to be unloaded into smaller vehicles and delivered up to the site, then unloaded again. This condition is also found with mountain construction.
  • Mountain Region: Accounts for the building costs in mountain resort areas where costs are high and site access is more challenging than standard conditions. These two factors combined comprise the mountain region conditions, which accounts for the labor rates and material costs reflecting the higher demand for labor and material in addition to added challenges involved in material delivery in these areas.
    Note: If a mountain region home is built on a hillside, you should enter an appropriate hillside foundation percentage on the Building Information dialog, and enter a hillside slope using the drop-down list.
  • Island Access/Short Distance (1 mile or less): Site accessibility is not possible for people, equipment, and materials without the use of boat, ferry or work barge (one mile or less). Islands not connected to a mainland by bridges, tunnels or roads are difficult to access and will increase the construction cost.
  • Island Access/Long Distance (1 mile or more): Site accessibility is not possible for people, equipment, and materials without the use of boat, ferry or work barge (one mile or more). Islands not connected to a mainland by bridges, tunnels or roads are difficult to access and will increase the construction cost.
  • Elevator Access: Site accessibility for condos, apartments, and co-op units is made through elevator access. To get people, equipment, and materials to, in, and around the site, elevators must be used. Delivery trucks must be unloaded and materials must be loaded and then unloaded from the elevator. The additional labor must be taken into account when dealing with elevator access.
  • Isolated Rural Area: People, equipment, and materials are not locally available. Remote sites are difficult to access and will increase the construction cost.

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