Change orders, purchase requests, and scope changes sit in someone's inbox — or worse, on someone's desk — while crews stand idle and customers wait.
Key Finding: Independent workflow analysis indicates that unresolved approval delays issues in Excavation & Site Prep operations hinder efficiency. Research shows that Idle crew times waiting for office material or scope approvals average $75 to $150 per hour in unproductive labor overhead [1].
Site preparation and general excavation contractors — grading, foundation excavation, utility trenching. Every job starts with an 811 ticket.
40,000+
US Companies
$1.5M–$12M
Avg. Revenue
5–30
Field Crew Size
5.5%
Growth Rate
First shovel = first locate ticket. If your morning routine is printing tickets, sorting by crew, and hoping the locates are done, you're running a paper process in a $30-billion-damage industry.
Objective third-party statistics and research benchmarks relative to approval delays and excavation & site prep workflows.
Every stalled approval idles a crew at $75–$150/hour. A single day of approval delay on a 3-person crew costs $600–$1,800 in unproductive labor.
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