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Case study: Demolition & Environmental Services

How a national demolition contractor standardized estimating, approvals, and equipment management across complex projects — reducing rental leakage by nearly 20%

The Customer

A national demolition and environmental services contractor generating approximately $100M in annual revenue, operating across:

  • Airports
  • Commercial buildings
  • Retail gut-and-remodel programs
  • Large institutional facilities
  • Multi-location national rollouts

They manage everything required to dismantle, remove, and clear a jobsite — including:

  • Excavators
  • Skid steers
  • Loaders
  • Aerial equipment
  • Material handling
  • Dumpsters
  • Hauling logistics
  • Environmental containment equipment

Their annual equipment and logistics spend ranged from $3M–$5M.

 

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Their Challenges

Demolition projects are operationally dense.
Multiple asset types. Multiple vendors. Tight timelines. High safety requirements.

Despite having experienced superintendents and equipment coordinators, the organization faced four recurring problems.

1. Equipment On Rent That Nobody Knew About

During discovery, leadership acknowledged a painful reality:

Assets were occasionally still on rent — and no one realized it.

Because rentals were tracked through:

  • Email
  • Text messages
  • Informal calls
  • Supplier-generated on-rent reports

There was no real-time internal system confirming:

  • What was on rent
  • Who ordered it
  • When it was due off
  • Whether it was still needed

Idle assets quietly cost the company money.

2. No Standardized Approval Structure

Superintendents frequently needed to request additional equipment mid-project.

However:

  • Some had booking authority.
  • Others requested through informal channels.
  • Approvals weren’t centralized.
  • Procurement had limited visibility until invoices arrived.

Leadership wanted to create a structured workflow:

  • Superintendents could request additional assets.
  • Project leadership would approve.
  • Procurement would execute.
  • Finance would track.

Without friction — but with control.

SiteStack enabled this structure immediately.

3. Estimating Disconnected From Execution

The VP of Construction and program leadership recognized a larger opportunity:

They needed a tool where:

  • Estimators could model equipment cost
  • Project managers could book from that estimate
  • Field teams could execute from the same record
  • Finance could track actuals against projected cost

Previously, estimating lived in one system, rentals in another, and invoices in another.

There was no unified operational thread.

SiteStack allowed them to:

  • Build equipment and dumpster assumptions directly into the job
  • Calculate projected cost
  • Book assets inside the same system
  • Pass the job downstream to procurement and field teams

This transformed SiteStack from just a rental tool into a project lifecycle platform.

4. Internal Assets & Third-Party Vendors Were Disconnected

This contractor owned:

  • A dumpster company
  • Internal tools and equipment
  • Dispatch operations for certain assets

Yet those assets were managed outside of rental visibility.

They wanted a single jobsite view that included:

  • Third-party rentals
  • Internal dumpsters
  • Owned equipment
  • Labor considerations
  • Future cost categories

SiteStack allowed them to embed both internal and external assets into one unified jobsite record.

No other system could do this.

The SiteStack Solution

SiteStack became the centralized operational platform for the entire organization — from estimating to closeout.

 

✓ Unified Job Creation & Estimating

Every demolition project could be:

  • Modeled
  • Costed
  • Structured
  • Approved

Inside SiteStack before a single piece of equipment hit the jobsite.

Leadership could forecast:

  • Equipment cost
  • Dumpster volume
  • Crane requirements
  • Asset duration

And pass that plan into execution seamlessly.

✓ Structured Approval Workflows

Superintendents could:

  • Request additional assets
  • Submit adjustments

But booking authority remained centralized.

This preserved field flexibility while eliminating uncontrolled spend.

✓ Full On-Rent Visibility Across All Jobs

For the first time, the company could see:

  • Every asset on rent
  • Duration per job
  • Idle exposure
  • Vendor distribution
  • Program-level spend
  • Regional cost trends

No more surprises from supplier reports weeks later.

✓ Internal + External Asset Orchestration

SiteStack allowed them to:

  • Dispatch their own dumpsters
  • Track internal equipment
  • Manage third-party vendors
  • View everything at the jobsite level

This created a true jobsite control plane.

The Impact

Across $3M–$5M in annual rental and logistics spend, SiteStack delivered:

➡ Approximately 18–20% Savings

Driven by:

  • Eliminating idle assets
  • Preventing unnoticed rentals
  • Standardizing vendor usage
  • Reducing ad hoc bookings
  • Aligning estimating with execution
  • Bringing internal and external assets into one system

➡ End-to-End Project Control

From estimator → to PM → to superintendent → to procurement → to finance.

One workflow. One record. One system.

➡ Organizational Visibility Across Every Jobsite

Leadership no longer relied on supplier reports to understand exposure.

They owned the data — in real time.

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