Why Tilt-Up Contractors Lose the Panel Math
Tilt-up contractors lose the panel math when costs never get tracked per panel, crane rental gets bid as one lump instead of by the lift day, and embeds and blockouts ride inside the slab price instead of their own schedule of values lines. CONTROL gives every panel, lift, and embed package its own number.
The specific ways tilt-up contractors lose cash, pulled straight from what makes this trade different.
Panel Count Job Costing
Panels are the natural unit of a tilt-up job. Costing forms, rebar, embeds, and labor per panel shows which panel types and sizes carry the margin.
Crane Rental by Lift
Crane day rates are enormous and lift days slip. Costing the crane by the lift, with standby terms in the contract, keeps a two-day slip from erasing a week of margin.
Embeds and Blockouts as SOV Lines
Embeds and blockouts are engineered, purchased, and installed as their own scope. Their own schedule of values lines means they get billed instead of absorbed.
The CONTROL chapters that solve this for tilt-up contractors specifically.
Why do tilt-up contractors lose money on crane days?
How should a tilt-up contractor job cost panels?
What profit margin should a tilt-up contractor target?
