2006 Vision Award - Silver

 

Constructech awarded Champion Site Prep LP a Silver medal in the 2006 Vision Awards. Champion was recognized for its innovative use of HeavyBid and The Dispatcher, while HCSS was honored with the accompanying Technology Enabler Award.

Judging is based on improvements in company processes and competitiveness through the use of technology.

 

Champion Site Prep LP

Silver (category: Excavation/Sitework/Contractor)

In the excavation and site-work market, the ability to recognize problems early and make the necessary adjustments can not only prove to be key to the success of an individual project, but it can also make an impact on the long-term prosperity of the company as a whole.

Site excavation contractor Champion Site Prep LLC, www.idigdirt.com, Georgetown, Texas, isn’t afraid to dig deep when it comes to embracing technology. Company owner John Gustainis is a strong believer in the power technology brings to his company against larger players in the space.

Looking to increase the accuracy of its bids, the company implemented HeavyBid from HCSS, www.hcss.com, Houston, Texas. This bidding/estimating package is tailored specifically to meet the needs of heavy/highway contractors.

Champion’s operations departments use the package to help coordinate job information, organize electronic timecards, track material deliveries, and uncover historical bid data, among a range of other tasks critical to the success of its operations.

The company recently installed The Dispatcher, which helps with equipment and crew tracking, job scheduling, and forecasting for equipment rentals and purchases—all key pieces to its operations. GPS (global positioning system) vehicle tracking aids in the entire process as well, helping the company improve the efficiency in tracking material deliveries.

All of these pieces linked together help increase the amount of information available on a job and gets the right data in the hands of the right people throughout the organization. Through the use of a laptop connected to a high-speed wireless broadband connection, each superintendent and project manger has instant remote access to realtime productivity information on any job.

Champion Site Prep compiles all of these project details for review during weekly staff meetings. This equips staff with the right information to help them make critical decisions at a moment’s notice. With this ingenuity, this small contractor continues to excel in a big way against the competition since 1983.