Excavation and site work
Equipment, fuel, and phased work drive the cost of heavy civil and site work. We help connect telematics, field reports, and accounting so equipment time and quantities reach job cost by phase.
How the work runs
Equipment drives the cost
Cost sits in equipment hours, fuel, trucking, and quantities moved, spread across phases that can run for months. Tying each back to the right phase is what makes a job cost report worth bidding from.
Systems we often see
- Equipment telematics
- Fuel cards
- Daily field reports
- Accounting and job cost
Where the work gets stuck
- 01
Crews and equipment across phases
Scheduling machines and operators on multi-phase projects without a current view of availability.
- 02
Fuel, parts, and consumables
Loosely tracked across jobsites, so overruns and delays surface late.
- 03
Field reports that feed billing
Equipment hours, quantities, and progress by phase are needed for compliance and billing.
- 04
Profit known weeks later
Separate production and accounting systems, and uneven cost codes, delay the answer.
One handoff, step by step
Can equipment time be traced to the work phase it supported?
- Step 1, Telematics, in Equipment telematics: Records engine hours for the excavator.
- Step 2, Foreman, in Daily field report: Assigns those hours to a phase and cost code on the daily report. Re-keyed by hand from the previous system.
- Step 3, Project manager, in Job cost reports: Checks hours against quantities moved in that phase. Then a check: Hours line up with quantities moved? If not, the foreman corrects the phase.
- Step 4, Accounting, in Accounting: Posts equipment cost to the phase. Re-keyed by hand from the previous system.
- Ends with: Cost posted to the phase.
A typical sequence to show the kind of handoff we map. Not a client finding.
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How we help
- Digital Operations AssessmentReview equipment tracking, job costing, and compliance workflows, and agree which fixes come first.
- Software IntegrationConnect telematics, fuel cards, and accounting, designed so equipment hours and fuel post to the right job and phase.
- Data AnalyticsReport equipment utilization and job cost by machine and project phase.
Other industries
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