What is caseworkin construction?

Casework is modular, repetitive cabinetry built to standard box sizes, base and upper cabinets, tall units, countertops, often to an AWI grade. Millwork is custom architectural woodwork, reception desks, paneling, and one-off built-ins fabricated to the specific drawings. They overlap and are sometimes bid together, but casework prices closer to per linear foot of standard cabinet while millwork prices as engineered, made-to-order work.

They carry different unit prices. Base cabinets are deeper, often hold sinks and appliances, and support countertops, while uppers are shallower and lighter. Running them on one combined linear foot rate skews the estimate, especially in rooms where the upper run is shorter than the base run. Keep them on separate lines off the interior elevations.

Usually not, because the countertop run, overhangs, returns, and material differ from the cabinet boxes below. Measure countertops on their own line in linear feet, or in square feet when the material is priced by area, and note sink cutouts and backsplashes. A counter can be longer than the base run when it returns along an end or wraps a corner.

Both spellings refer to the same scope. The industry standard is the single word, casework, and that is how the AWI standards and most specifications write it, but case work appears in older documents and everyday writing. Either way it means the modular cabinetry scope, base and upper cabinets, tall units, and countertops, taken off in linear feet and counts.