🇦🇪 RCC frame + concrete block infill

Villa Construction Cost Calculator & BOQ Generator for the UAE

Get the itemized bill of quantities before you sign — not just a ROM estimate.

Most UAE villa cost tools give you a fast rough-order-of-magnitude number: pick a quality tier, get an AED/sqft range. That's a real, useful first step, but every contractor and quantity surveyor here will tell you the same thing: get a detailed BOQ before you sign, so you can compare quotes like-for-like instead of comparing two different scopes wearing the same headline price.

This generator builds that itemized BOQ directly instead of estimating from a rough per-square-foot multiplier. It knows the actual way a UAE villa goes together — a reinforced skeleton carrying the load, block simply filling the spans between it — and turns that into real steel-tonnage and concrete-volume figures. It also includes the villa line items a generic house calculator leaves out entirely: a majlis, maid's and driver's rooms, a dirty kitchen, the compound wall around the plot.

Every line stays in your hands to price, in AED, against whatever your own contractor and suppliers actually quote. Standard finishing and imported-luxury finishing can be 3-4x apart on the same floor plan here, so a single headline AED/m² figure would flatten that gap into something misleading — your own quotes, not a published average, are what should set the number.

What's in a United Arab Emirates BOQ from this generator

  • Reinforced-concrete columns, beams and slabs, tonnage and volume scaled to your floor area
  • Block infill walls (concrete block count per wall area)
  • Real tropical HVAC sizing (~1 ton per 40-50 sqm conditioned area, not a flat system count)
  • Doors and windows (room-count and area-based)
  • Majlis, maid's room, driver's room and dirty kitchen — real Gulf villa programming most tools skip
  • DEWA electrical connection and Civil Defence fire/smoke system
  • Near-full-coverage false ceiling and wet-area waterproofing
  • Plot-perimeter compound wall
  • Car shade or garage bay and internal staircases, when your villa has them
CurrencyAED
Construction SystemRCC frame + concrete block infill
BOQ StandardNo single Gulf BOQ standard — commonly referenced against RICS NRM / CESMM
PricingYour own local rates — free

United Arab Emirates Bill of Quantities — Frequently Asked Questions

Why get a full BOQ instead of just a villa cost calculator's ROM estimate?
A ROM (rough order of magnitude) number is fine for an early gut-check, but two contractors quoting the 'same' villa can hide very different scope inside one headline AED figure. An itemized BOQ is what lets you compare quotes line-by-line before you sign, and what banks and developers actually check milestone payments against.
Does this generator model real UAE villa rooms like a majlis or maid's room?
Yes — majlis, ladies' majlis/family living, dirty kitchen, maid's room and driver's room are all modeled as real line items, not folded into a generic 'extra room' guess the way most Western-built calculators handle them.
Does this tool include real UAE material and labor prices?
No — you get real structural and MEP quantities and price every line yourself in AED. Villa finishing costs vary 3-4x between standard and imported-luxury specification, which is exactly why a single published AED/sqft figure would mislead more than it helps.
Does the midday summer work ban affect my BOQ?
It doesn't change your quantities, but it's worth knowing when scheduling: outdoor work is banned 12:30-3:00pm from mid-June to mid-September, which shifts contractor shift patterns and can affect delivery scheduling around the pours and installs this BOQ itemizes.
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Generate a real United Arab Emirates BOQ, free

Real quantities calculated from your project's size and construction system — you price every line with your own AED rates. No fabricated national average, no fake accuracy claim.

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