Industries
IT for concrete and masonry contractors
The pour goes ahead.
A pour cannot be moved once the trucks are loaded. That constraint shapes everything technical in a concrete or masonry business, and it is where happier IT starts: managed IT, site connectivity and cybersecurity for concrete, masonry and precast contractors across Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario. The schedule, the batch tickets, the scale data and the site phones have to work before the day begins.
Who it's for
What the systems have to keep up with.
The pour schedule
Weather windows, supplier bookings, pump availability, crew. It changes hourly and everyone needs the same version.
Batch tickets and weigh scales
Delivery tickets, scale readings and mix data flow from the plant into job costing. The connection is usually a fragile file drop or an emailed spreadsheet that somebody re-keys by hand.
Weather and quality data
Ambient temperature, cure logs, maturity meter readings and cylinder results. These settle a question about a slab five years later, which makes them long-retention records.
Heavy plant telematics
Pumps, mixers and loaders reporting hours and faults through the manufacturer's portal.
Short-lived site setups
A site that exists for six weeks still needs connectivity, phones and access on day one, and a clean shutdown so it stops billing.
What's included
What we look after.
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Site setups that go up in days and come down cleanly
A standard kit, cellular router, antenna, switch, phones, that a foreman can deploy without a technician, and a defined shutdown when the job ends.
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The schedule in one place, on every phone
One live version that supervisors, drivers and the office all read.
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Batch ticket and scale integrations that are watched
Where tickets flow from a plant or supplier into accounting, that path is monitored, so a silent failure is noticed on the day rather than at month end.
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Quality and cure records kept for the long term
Cylinder results, maturity readings, temperature logs and mix designs in a defined structure, with a retention period that matches how long you may need them.
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Telematics accounts with an owner
Manufacturer portals inventoried, tied to company accounts rather than a former employee's email address, and closed when a machine is sold.
How it works
How we start.
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We walk one pour, start to finish
From the schedule and supplier booking, through tickets and scale data, to the invoice and cure records. That walk usually finds two or three re-keying steps nobody realised were manual.
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We turn the site setup into a kit
Standard hardware, a written procedure, spares on the shelf, and central monitoring so a dead site shows on our screen before the superintendent calls.
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We harden the records
Quality data, mix designs and cure logs get a permanent home with retention rules and tested backups, so a question in year four is answered in an hour.
What it costs
What it costs.
Sites are the variable. Each active site carries its own connectivity cost, and mobilisation and demobilisation are real work, so we price a site setup as a defined unit you can forecast against jobs won. Our pricing guide covers the models.
Stop paying for finished sites
Cellular plans for completed jobs quietly renew for years. Cancelling them, and confirming the cancellation, is part of the demobilisation checklist, unglamorous, and it often pays for itself first.
Why us for this
What we can show you, and what we cannot yet.
Construction and trades is a sector happier IT knows well across Western Canada and Ontario, and concrete work sits inside it.
Verifiable today: Microsoft, Cisco and CompTIA certifications, and a Canadian security operations centre staffed by our own employees.
Go deeper
- IT for construction and trades The parent page: jobsite networks, Procore, Sage, and client security questionnaires.
- On-site IT support When someone actually has to be there.
Questions
What people ask before they sign anything.
Can you get a new site online within a week?
Usually, if cellular coverage exists at the location: a standard kit of router, antenna, switch and phones can be deployed by your own crew from a written procedure. We will not promise a timeline before someone has checked coverage at the address.
How should we store cure logs and cylinder test results?
In one structured, backed-up location with a retention period set deliberately, not in the folder of whoever ran the test. They get requested years after a job closes, so permissions follow the project rather than the person, and early deletion is blocked.
Our batch tickets are re-keyed by hand. Can that be automated?
Often, depending on what your supplier or plant can export, many batching systems produce a structured file that job costing software can import, which removes the retyping and the transcription errors.
Do you manage the cellular plans for site routers?
We manage the technical side, routers, SIM cards, monitoring, which sites are live, and track plans against active jobs so nothing keeps billing after demobilisation. Whether the contracts sit with us or with you directly is your call.
What happens to a site network when the job finishes?
It comes down on a checklist: hardware collected, connections cancelled and the cancellation confirmed in writing, site accounts closed, and the project's documents moved into long-term storage. Informal demobilisation is how businesses end up paying for sites that closed last year.
Related
Where to go next.
Want to know what this would look like for you?
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