Datasets:

DataDrivenConstruction
/

cwicr-construction-rates

license: apache-2.0
language:
  - ar
  - bg
  - cs
  - de
  - en
  - es
  - fr
  - hi
  - hr
  - id
  - it
  - ja
  - ko
  - nl
  - pl
  - pt
  - ro
  - ru
  - sv
  - th
  - tr
  - vi
  - zh
tags:
  - construction
  - cost-estimation
  - quantity-surveying
  - BIM
  - construction-rates
  - bill-of-quantities
  - tabular
  - parquet
  - multilingual
size_categories:
  - 1M<n<10M
pretty_name: CWICR — Construction Works, Items, Costs & Resources (30 Countries)
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: ar
        path: AR/*.parquet
      - split: au
        path: AU/*.parquet
      - split: bg
        path: BG/*.parquet
      - split: cs
        path: CS/*.parquet
      - split: de
        path: DE/*.parquet
      - split: en
        path: EN/*.parquet
      - split: es
        path: ES/*.parquet
      - split: fr
        path: FR/*.parquet
      - split: hi
        path: HI/*.parquet
      - split: hr
        path: HR/*.parquet
      - split: id
        path: ID/*.parquet
      - split: it
        path: IT/*.parquet
      - split: ja
        path: JA/*.parquet
      - split: ko
        path: KO/*.parquet
      - split: mx
        path: MX/*.parquet
      - split: ng
        path: NG/*.parquet
      - split: nl
        path: NL/*.parquet
      - split: nz
        path: NZ/*.parquet
      - split: pl
        path: PL/*.parquet
      - split: pt
        path: PT/*.parquet
      - split: ro
        path: RO/*.parquet
      - split: ru
        path: RU/*.parquet
      - split: sv
        path: SV/*.parquet
      - split: th
        path: TH/*.parquet
      - split: tr
        path: TR/*.parquet
      - split: uk
        path: UK/*.parquet
      - split: us
        path: US/*.parquet
      - split: vi
        path: VI/*.parquet
      - split: za
        path: ZA/*.parquet
      - split: zh
        path: ZH/*.parquet

CWICR — Construction Works, Items, Costs & Resources

A multilingual, machine-readable database of national construction rate books for 30 countries / language locales. Each rate is fully decomposed into its work composition and resource breakdown (labour, machinery, materials), with unit prices, hierarchical classification, and physical parameters preserved in the source language.

This dataset is the tabular source-of-truth behind the cwicr-vector-db-bgem3-v3 Qdrant snapshots. Use this repository when you need raw numeric data (prices, quantities, time norms); use the vector DB repository when you need semantic search over rate descriptions.

Contents per country

Each language directory (AR/, BG/, CS/, DE/, …) contains:

File	Description
`<LANG>_<CITY>_workitems_costs_resources_DDC_CWICR.parquet`	Primary table — one row per (rate × resource). ~900K rows per country, 84 columns.
`DDC_CWICR_<LANG>_<CITY>_Catalog.csv`	Compact catalogue — one row per unique `rate_code` with title, unit, collection, hierarchy. ~55K rows per country.
`DDC_CWICR_<LANG>_<CITY>_Catalog.xlsx`	Same catalogue, Excel-formatted (auto-widths, frozen headers).
`README_DDC_CWICR_TABULAR_<LANG>_<CITY>.pdf`	Localised PDF documentation for that country's rate book.
`README.md`	Per-country quick reference (locale, collections, schema notes).

Excel exports of the full table (*_FORMATTED.xlsx, *_SIMPLE.xlsx) are reproducible from the parquet and are kept in the source GitHub repository as Git LFS objects.

Schema (parquet — 84 columns)

The parquet preserves the full rate decomposition. A rate (e.g. "Excavator 15 m³, soil class 2") is unfolded into multiple rows, one per resource it consumes (the excavator itself, fuel, operator labour, transport, etc.). Each row carries both rate-level fields (replicated across the rate's rows) and resource-level fields (unique per row).

Column groups:

Identification: rate_code, rate_original_name, rate_final_name, rate_unit, is_abstract (parent aggregator vs. specific variant)
Hierarchy: category_type, department_code, department_name, section_name, subsection_name, collection_name
Physical params: mass_name, mass_value, mass_unit (preserves original semantics: "масса 1 шт.", "Gewicht", etc.)
Costs: rate_total_cost, rate_labour_cost, rate_materials_cost, rate_machinery_cost, rate_overhead, rate_profit, currency
Work composition: work_composition_text — full natural-language description of the work performed
Resources (one row each): resource_code, resource_name, resource_type, resource_quantity, resource_unit, resource_unit_cost, resource_total_cost
Machinery taxonomy: machine_class1_name … machine_class3_name — classification of machinery resources
Provenance: source_book, source_year, source_publisher, source_url

All text fields are in the source language of the rate book (Russian, German, Chinese, Hindi, etc.). Unit symbols and numeric values are kept verbatim from the original publication.

Quick start (Python)

from datasets import load_dataset

# Load all rates for one country (parquet → in-memory Arrow table)
ds = load_dataset("DataDrivenConstruction/cwicr-construction-rates", split="de")
print(ds.column_names)
print(ds[0])

# Or load lazily with polars (recommended for >100K rows)
import polars as pl
df = pl.scan_parquet(
    "hf://datasets/DataDrivenConstruction/cwicr-construction-rates/DE/DE_BERLIN_workitems_costs_resources_DDC_CWICR.parquet"
).filter(pl.col("collection_name").str.contains("Erdarbeiten")).collect()

Quick start (CLI)

# Download one country
huggingface-cli download DataDrivenConstruction/cwicr-construction-rates \
  --include "DE/*" --repo-type dataset --local-dir ./cwicr_de

# Convert to CSV for quick inspection
python -c "import polars as pl; pl.read_parquet('cwicr_de/DE/DE_BERLIN_workitems_costs_resources_DDC_CWICR.parquet').write_csv('de.csv')"

Coverage

30 locale-specific rate books spanning 23 languages:

Region	Locales
Russian-speaking	RU (St. Petersburg / federal)
English-speaking	EN (Toronto), UK (London / GBP), US (USA / USD), AU (Sydney), NZ (Auckland), NG (Lagos), ZA (Johannesburg)
Spanish/Portuguese	ES (Barcelona), MX (Mexico City), PT (São Paulo)
Central/Eastern Europe	DE (Berlin), FR (Paris), IT (Rome), NL (Amsterdam), PL (Warsaw), CS (Prague), HR (Zagreb), BG (Sofia), RO (Bucharest), SV (Stockholm), TR (Istanbul)
Middle East / South Asia	AR (Dubai), HI (Mumbai)
East / Southeast Asia	ZH (Shanghai), JA (Tokyo), KO (Seoul), TH (Bangkok), VI (Hanoi), ID (Jakarta)

Each rate book uses its native classification system (Russian СНиП codes, German DIN structures, US MasterFormat-style hierarchies, Chinese GB classifiers, etc.). The schema is unified across countries but the values in collection_name / department_code / etc. are in the source language and follow each country's own taxonomy.

Use cases

Cost estimation: BIM quantity takeoff → match elements to rates → compute project cost in local currency
Cross-country price benchmarking: compare the unit cost of equivalent works (e.g. concrete pouring) across markets
Construction-specific LLM fine-tuning: rich multilingual corpus of technical construction language with structured grounding
Resource normalization research: align machinery / material / labour ontologies across national catalogues
Quantity surveying education: realistic worked examples in 23 languages

Related artifacts

Vector DB snapshots (Qdrant, hybrid BGE-M3 dense + sparse + resources, ready to restore):
→ DataDrivenConstruction/cwicr-vector-db-bgem3-v3
Source code / pipelines (encoders, classifiers, search demos, BIM matchers):
→ github.com/datadrivenconstruction/OpenConstructionEstimate-DDC-CWICR

Data sources

CWICR aggregates publicly available national rate catalogues:

RU: Federal Unified Rates (ФЕР / ТЕР), Ministry of Construction RF, regional indices.
EU: National building cost compendia for each member state.
US/CA: RSMeans-style cost data, MasterFormat-aligned.
CN/JP/KR/TH/VN/ID: Government-published quota / norm catalogues.
Other: Country-specific official sources cited in each rate's source_book field.

The CWICR pipeline normalises these into a single schema; the rate codes, prices, and work compositions are preserved verbatim from the originals. License applicability of underlying codes follows each catalogue's terms; this redistribution is for research and reference. Where redistribution is restricted, only derived metrics or anonymised samples are included.

Reproducibility

The CWICR pipeline (parsers, normalisers, classifiers) is open-source. Each parquet here is built by:

Source-specific parser → standard workitems_costs_resources raw frame
v3_classifier.enrich_v3 → 29 indexed payload fields (collections, departments, physical params)
ost_ifc_mapping.base_code → cross-language rate-code normalisation (lang/unit suffixes + inline tags)

See the source repository for full pipeline scripts.

License

Released under Apache-2.0 for the dataset structure, normalisation pipeline, and derived metadata. Underlying rate codes and prices are sourced from publicly available national catalogues — each catalogue's terms of use apply to commercial redistribution of raw numeric values.

Citation

@dataset{cwicr_rates_2026,
  author    = {Boiko, Artem and DataDrivenConstruction},
  title     = {CWICR — Construction Works, Items, Costs \& Resources (30 Countries)},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url       = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/DataDrivenConstruction/cwicr-construction-rates}
}

Contact

Source code & issue tracker: https://github.com/datadrivenconstruction/OpenConstructionEstimate-DDC-CWICR
Author: Artem Boiko (DataDrivenConstruction)
Email: boikoartem@gmail.com