How to Extract Activity Costs and Quantities from the BOQ for Cost & Resource Loading
How to Extract Activity Costs and Quantities from the BOQ for
Cost & Resource Loading.
Most planners load cost into Primavera P6 as one lump sum per activity.
That's the mistake.
A real BOQ has dozens of line items mapped to a single activity, different block types, different walls, different rates.
If you don't break it down first, your cost loading is just a guess dressed up as data.
Here's the actual workflow:
✅ Pull every BOQ line item tied to the activity — qty, unit, and rate, item by item
✅ Sum them into one true QTY and COST per activity
✅ Split that total across the floors or zones it spans, so each location carries its real share of cost and quantity
✅ Keep labor, qty, and cost as separate rows - so the schedule reflects manpower, not just money
Get this right, and your cost loading actually means something:
Traceable back to the BOQ, defensible to the client,
and accurate enough to drive real decisions.
I walk through the full Excel breakdown — line by line — in this video