Excavation Contractors

Excavation contractors have unique needs like equipment management and equipment maintenance, operator licensing and scheduling. Similar to the challenges faced by road and bridge contractors, excavation contractors are also impacted by weather conditions.

Overly dry or wet conditions can affect the size and type of equipment needed for each job. If the weather has been too dry, a larger piece of equipment may be needed to effectively grade or break ground. Conditions where the ground is too wet can cause some pieces to become "stuck" in the mud. The equipment management tool in ComputerEase helps solve these problems. Simply change the piece of equipment being used and ComputerEase will insert the new costs associated with this equipment, automatically update job costing data and show you the impact of these changes on your bottom line.

Different equipment may mean different operators at a different pay rate. Alter the equipment and ComputerEase can automatically flag the need for a different operator. Quickly check your employees' capabilities through the employee center and schedule the correct operator and equipment for the job with the appropriate pay rate as well.

Is work progressing faster than anticipated? Change the schedule to reflect this and see the impact to your bottom line. ComputerEase construction management software helps keep you on track in spite of weather conditions.

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One of the uh, areas in construction that we find ComputerEase to be particularly well suited for are, what we refer as, heavy highway contractors, road builders, utility contractors or site work (excavation) contractors. Uh, their needs are, are a little unique compared to a general building contractor for a couple reasons. Uh, one can, one situation is that they provide not only the labor to do the work but their type of work, because of its nature, requires heavy equipment, like bulldozers, graders, those types of equipment, which are very, very expensive to uh, operate and uh, provide a big part of the construction costs and one of the big variable costs. Uh, where a person might cost you 30 to $50 uh, an hour, a piece of equipment's probably gonna run 90 to $150 an hour. So if you just run over uh, by a small amount, you can end up uh, with a big expense on there. And ComputerEase does a wonderful job of tracking equipment usage against the jobs, allowing you to charge the equipment (management) to the job so that you'll know what the true expense of the job is.