Enter your numbers. See the real cost of lift rejections, inspector mobilizations, and paperwork — and what Sitemark saves you at $199/mo.
With Sitemark ($199/mo)
Failed lift event cost of $8,500 includes re-testing, inspector remobilization, re-compaction, and scheduling delay. Inspector mobilization fixed at $2,000 per occurrence. Documentation labor at $80/hr. Estimates assume Sitemark eliminates ~80% of QC burden through real-time pass/fail verification.
Road construction is a multi-lift process: subgrade, base course, and paving each require separate grade verification and compaction testing before the next lift begins. A failed lift event — where compaction doesn't meet spec or grade is out of tolerance — triggers a cascade: the failing section must be reworked, re-compacted, and re-tested before the DOT inspector signs off. The direct cost runs $5,000–$15,000 per event for a typical road contract, but the schedule impact is often more expensive than the rework itself.
DOT inspectors require contemporaneous documentation: grade and compaction records must be logged at the time of the work, not reconstructed afterward. Contractors who can't produce a complete station-by-station QC log for a given lift face delayed approval, required retesting, and in some cases liquidated damages for missed milestones. Manual documentation systems — paper logs transferred to spreadsheets — create the gaps that trigger these consequences.
The most expensive documentation failures are the ones that aren't discovered until project closeout, when the DOT requests the complete QC record. Reconstructing months of field work from memory and partial notes costs more than the documentation would have in the first place. Sitemark captures grade and compaction data at the point of work — every shot timestamped, GPS-tagged, and linked to station number. The QC Daily Summary for DOT is generated from that field data automatically.
Adjust the inputs above to match your road project profile. Most contractors find their annual cost is higher than the default once they factor in schedule impact, superintendent time, and retesting fees.