What Is The Highway Guardrail Cost Per Meter?

If you are asked about highway guardrail pricing, you are asked with two questions: 

How much does highway guardrail cost per meter? 

OR 

How much does highway guardrail cost per ton?

Too generally answer this question: the highway guardrail cost per meter is around $20. And for each ton of highway guardrail, the price is around $570 to $630.

If you are asking for a quotation for highway guardrail, I suggest you ask for the cost per foot/meter or per linear foot/linear meter. Compared with the cost per ton, the cost per meter is more accurate.

The reason is that, before asking for the price, the client already knows how many feet or how many kilometers of highway road their highway guardrail project covers, and they may already know the configurations (the number of posts, caps, offset blocks, etc.).

If the clients get the cost per foot, they can easily calculate the total budget for their project.

For the price per ton, people ask this question normally because they have no idea of the specific highway guardrail configuration. If this is the case, the price will be a very rough answer as the cost is determined by the specifications of each part of the project.

Even for the cost of highway guardrail per foot, the price can be hugely different from one configuration to the other. Take the cost of w beam highway guardrail for example again, suppose the specification is as follows:

3mm thickness rail plate, 114mm diameter post, 4-meter distance, power coating treatment. The price is about $6 – $6.5 per foot.

4mm thickness rail plate, 140mm diameter post, 4-meter distance, power coating treatment. The price is about $7 – $7.9 per foot.

So when you make an inquiry, make your specifications and quantity accurate is a prerequisite of meaningful and insightful quotation.