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Concrete contractor time tracking

Concrete contractor time tracking, from a 4:30 AM pour to the last finisher's walk off.

Concrete contractor time tracking has to handle a day whose length nobody controls: crews arrive before dawn, trucks run late, and the finishers stay until the slab has set enough to trowel. ZeroBadge records every worker from a company-managed badge, places the day at the jobsite you drew, and shows each person's own arrival and departure, so a short crew and a long finishing tail are two different lines instead of one rounded day.

Get startedSee a pour day
  • Each worker's own start and finish
  • Pour days and prep days on one record
  • One month or more of battery life*

*Under qualifying operating conditions. Battery life varies with reporting frequency, signal conditions, usage, and configuration.

Mon Oct 5

  1. Power on

    6:51 AM

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    2:51 PM

Reporting

Priya S.

Journeyman pipefitter · Riverside crew

Powered on
6:51 AM · clock-in
Location
Riverside
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2:51 PM · clock-out
Recorded
8h
Personal phone
Not used
PIN or kiosk
None

What ZeroBadge does for you

How ZeroBadge helps concrete contractors

One company badge per worker covers safety alerts, timekeeping, labor analytics and ZeroBadge AI. Here is what each part does in your line of work.

  • 01

    Worker safety

    Early pour crews working in the dark can press the alert button, and the office sees which jobsite raised it, with a restricted-area alert around open excavations.

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  • 02

    Workforce management

    Check that the full pour crew and the finishers have reached the slab before the first truck, and see who is late or missing.

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  • 03

    Automated timekeeping

    Badge on at the site starts each worker's day, so a 4:30 AM pour start and a long finishing tail are each recorded as they happened.

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  • 04

    Workforce productivity

    Compare hours spent on form, rebar, pour and strip days against what each pour was bid, and see where labor ran long.

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  • 05

    Location analytics

    GPS outdoors puts each crew at the right jobsite, with below-grade work held at lower confidence rather than guessed, so the record stays honest.

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  • 06

    Field logistics

    Move form and rebar crews between active sites using the recorded hours, so the pour crew is full when the trucks are booked.

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  • 07

    AI advisory and analytics

    Ask ZeroBadge AI how many hours the finishers logged after the last truck on each pour, answered from the badge records.

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Safety alerts support your safety program. They do not replace supervision or training, ZeroBadge does not monitor alerts or contact 911, and in an emergency workers should call 911.

Where concrete hours hide

A pour day ends when the concrete says it does.

Forming, rebar and stripping are steady. A pour is the opposite: a hard early start, a stretch of waiting and a finish that depends on weather, mix and trucks.

  • A start before sunrise that the sheet rounds

    Crews report at 4:30 or 5:00 to be ready for the first truck. Written on a crew sheet, it often becomes 5:00 for everyone, and the early hour disappears.

  • Waiting on trucks

    The batch plant is behind, a truck is stuck in traffic, the pump is late. The crew is on site with forms set and nothing to place. That wait belongs to the pour, and nothing on a card shows it.

  • Finishers on their own clock

    The placing crew is done by early afternoon. The finishers wait for bleed water to leave the slab, then trowel until it is right. They may be on site three or four hours after the last truck, a different day from everyone else.

  • Pour days and the days between

    A foundation job might be three days of forming, two of rebar, one pour and a stripping day. Each kind of day has a different crew size and a different cost. A weekly total spreads them together.

  • Washouts, cleanup and the drive back

    Washing out tools and the pump, cleaning the area and loading the truck are paid hours at the end of a pour that don't show up as concrete work.

  • Saw cutting and curing the next day

    Control joints are cut the day after, sometimes by two people for two hours. A small return visit to a pour that is already closed out.

A pour day

A slab on grade: six who place and two who finish.

Illustrative day for an eight-person crew.

Crew sheet

  1. Start5:00 for everyone, though two were on site at 4:45 to check forms and the screed.
  2. MiddayPlacing finished at 2:30. The sheet still shows everyone on until 5:00, rounded for the whole crew.
  3. AfternoonTwo finishers stayed until after 5:30. Their extra time is a note the foreman remembers on Friday.
  4. FridayThe job is charged eight people at about ten hours each, a figure that fits nobody exactly.

Badge record

  1. 4:50 AMEach badge goes on as its owner arrives. Early arrivals are recorded as early.
  2. 2:30 PMSix badges go off after placing. Their day is 9 hours 40 minutes each.
  3. 5:35 PMThe two finishers' badges go off. Their day is 12 hours 45 minutes.
  4. FridayEight workers, two groups, two different lengths of day, each against the job.

Outdoors, mostly

Where the location is strong and where it is thinner.

Concrete is outdoor work, which is where GPS is strongest. The record is only as good as the signal, and a few kinds of pour are harder.

  • Slab on grade and site concrete

    Open sky means good GPS. A building pad, a parking lot or a sidewalk run is placed at the jobsite you drew with a clear arrival and departure.

  • Below grade and inside forms

    A deep foundation or a basement wall can shade GPS. The badge keeps reporting about every 5 minutes and stores anything it can't send, uploading it with its original timestamp later. Gaps show up as time to review rather than silently counting.

  • Elevated decks

    Upper floors of a building are mostly open to the sky until they are closed in. Indoor positioning improves as the site's Wi-Fi is learned over the first visits.

  • Which pour, which day

    A badge places a person at a jobsite, not at a particular pour. The pour schedule and the delivery tickets name the pour; the badge names the hours.

Payroll wrinkles

Early starts, long days and the day that gets rained out.

  • Overtime on pour days

    A 12-hour day for two finishers and a 9.7-hour day for everyone else are recorded separately, so overtime applies person by person under your payroll rules, not to a rounded crew figure.

  • Show-up pay and standby

    A crew that arrives and waits for trucks, or arrives and is sent home, is on site for a recorded stretch. Whether that is paid and how depends on your policy, your agreement and your state's rules. The record shows how long they were there.

  • Prevailing wage and certified payroll

    Hours are by worker, jobsite and day, which is the shape the forms need. The forms stay in your payroll process; see payroll integration.

  • Weekend pours

    A Saturday pour for a Monday strip or a weather make-up shows on its own day, by job, so premium time lands where it was caused.

Why phones don't work on a pour

Wet hands, rain and a pump line.

  • Slurry and water

    Hands are wet and gloves are coated with concrete for most of a pour. A phone in a pocket takes the splash, and a punch is not happening.

  • Rain and heat

    A phone in a front pocket takes rain, sun and a pour that can run long. The badge is worn on the vest and does one job.

  • A moving crew on a large pad

    A site that spans an acre doesn't have a gate to punch at. People arrive at different times and from different directions. Each badge is switched on at the start of its owner's shift.

Rolling it out

Badge a crew for one pour and compare it to the tickets.

  1. 01

    Draw the site

    Type the address and adjust the geofence to the full pad or the limits of work. Add the batch plant or the rebar supplier if crews stop there.

    Office · first day

  2. 02

    Badge the whole pour crew

    Placers, finishers and the foreman. A pour reads best with everyone on it.

    Office · first week

  3. 03

    Lay hours beside the delivery tickets

    Compare first and last truck times to the first and last badge on and off. The gap before and after is where the long part of the day lives.

    Foreman · each pour

  4. 04

    Approve and send

    Timesheets run Saturday to Friday. Clear the exceptions, approve, and approved hours are sent to your payroll provider.

    Payroll · weekly

Go deeper

Where concrete contractors usually look next.

ZeroBadge AI

Ask about your pours

Plain-English answers come from your own badge records, and each number links back to the shifts it was counted from.

  • You ask

    How long did the finishers stay on the Eastgate pour day?

    Four finishers were recorded on site from 4:35 AM, with the last leaving 50 minutes after the others at 4:30 PM. Each person's hours link to their record.

  • You ask

    Which pour days ran over the hours we bid?

    The Mill Road deck pour recorded 168 hours against 150 bid, and the Eastgate slab 122 against 120. Both link to the weekly timesheets.

  • You ask

    Who was on site before 5 AM this week?

    Nine workers were recorded at Eastgate before 5 AM on Tuesday and Thursday. The list shows each badge's arrival time.

Answers come only from your company's own records. Every number links to the records behind it. Read-only; admins control access.

How ZeroBadge AI works

Questions

Questions concrete contractors ask.

How do I track a pour day when the end time depends on the concrete?
Each worker's badge records their own arrival and departure at the jobsite, so a placing crew that leaves at 2:30 and finishers who stay until 5:35 are two different lines. Compare those to the delivery tickets for the first and last truck to see where the day's time went.
Does ZeroBadge know when concrete is being placed?
No. The badge records where a person was and for how long, not what they were doing. Delivery tickets carry truck times and your pour schedule names the pour. The badge supplies the hours that go with them.
How accurate is the location on a large outdoor pad?
GPS is strongest outdoors, so slab, flatwork and site concrete are placed at the jobsite you drew with a clear arrival and departure. The record answers which jobsite someone was at, not which corner of the pad.
What about deep foundations and below-grade work?
GPS can be weaker below grade or inside deep forms. The badge keeps its normal reporting about every 5 minutes, stores what it can't send and uploads it later with the original timestamps. A short gap shows as time to review.
Can it separate pour days from form and rebar days?
By date. Pull the jobsite's hours for the days of each kind of work in your schedule and compare each stretch to your estimate for it. For budgets by job see labor cost tracking.

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See a pour day with each worker's real start and finish.

We'll walk through ZeroBadge with your active sites, your crew mix and the delivery tickets you already keep.

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What we will walk through

  • 01How a pour day reads by worker, not as one rounded figure
  • 02Hours beside first and last truck times
  • 03Weekly timesheets, review and the payroll integration