Construction material prices in Ethiopia

The Addis Ababa City Administration Design and Construction Works Bureau studies construction costs each quarter of the Ethiopian fiscal year. City offices use its rates to budget and to check bids. We read every rate on this site from the scanned documents the bureau publishes, and each page links to them.

The lists hold two kinds of price. A material price is for the material itself, delivered to a site in Addis Ababa with loading and unloading. A fixed rate is for finished work: the material, the labour and the equipment. Fixed rates are direct cost only. The bureau tells users to add the contractor's overhead (up to 10 percent of direct cost) and profit (7 to 13 percent, by project size). No rate includes VAT.

The bureau site has no document for the first and third quarters of 2018 E.C., so the charts show a gap there. The second quarter document of 2018 E.C. has no material price page, so cement, sand and other material rows skip that quarter. Where a scan is not clear enough to read a number with confidence, we leave the number out.

These are reference rates for a budget. They are not a quote. Shop prices change every day, and prices outside Addis Ababa differ with the transport distance. Get a written price from a supplier before you buy.