Guides
Field-voice guides for concrete subs.
Short, honest, written by someone who’s stood in the mud at 6 AM. No fluff — just how scheduling, weather, crews, and the switch off a spreadsheet actually work. Every free download lives on one templates page.
Pour & weather
The free concrete pour schedule template
Excel + Google Sheets. Status colors, weekly CY totals, print-ready. No email — just the file.
Read →The free concrete pour card template
Printable PDF: placement details, per-truck delivery log, QC checks, sign-offs. One page per pour.
Read →The three-week look-ahead (+ free templates)
Type one Monday, every date fills itself. The three-week standard plus two-week, weekly and six-week versions — free, no email.
Read →How to run a concrete pour schedule without a spreadsheet
Where the Excel/Outlook stack breaks — and how to run the schedule live instead.
Read →How to stop double-booking your concrete crew
Why the spreadsheet can’t see the collision — and how to catch it before the truck rolls.
Read →The concrete pre-pour checklist (+ printable PDF)
Day-before confirmations to the 6 AM go/no-go, where each item lives — and the one-page checklist for the truck. No email, just the file.
Read →Concrete pour timing: the 90-minute window and cold joints
Why ready-mix has ~90 minutes to discharge — and how a delay becomes a cold joint.
Read →Cold-weather concrete: the ACI 306 numbers (+ free checklist)
Placement temperatures by section size, protection periods, the 24-hour cool-down limit, a printable pour checklist — and the 5 AM call.
Read →Place & Finish: the complete getting-started guide
First login to a fully loaded schedule — offices, crews, pumps, projects, pours, conflicts, cancellations, Lookahead.
Read →Choosing software
Best concrete scheduling software (2026): an honest roundup
Ten tools scored on pour day — spreadsheets to Procore — with pricing as published, and where ours fits.
Read →Best construction daily report apps for concrete subs (2026)
Ten apps and paper scored on the crew’s day — crew from the schedule, hours to payroll, Spanish for the foreman, T&M signed on site, price.
Read →Choosing concrete scheduling software: a buyer’s guide
The four tool categories, the pour-day criteria, and demo questions that make vendors show, not tell.
Read →How to move off your pour spreadsheet without disrupting a single job
A four-week, one-pour-at-a-time switch plan with nothing at risk.
Read →From a pour-schedule spreadsheet to a live board — without a migration
The one-pour method: move at your pace, keep the sheet open, stop any time.
Read →Google Sheets vs Planning Ops for concrete pours
Where the sheet is fine, where it bites, and how to keep it while you try live.
Read →When your “system” is Outlook and a group text
The one expensive blind spot in email + texts — and the narrow fix.
Read →Ready-mix & equipment
Ordering ready mix: trucks, spacing, the clock
What a truck holds, spacing loads to your placement rate, short-load fees, and the 90-minute clock.
Read →Pump truck scheduling: booking the boom
When to book, what dispatch needs, pump-before-trucks timing, and the cancel window.
Read →Concrete pump vs conveyor: when to book which (+ free checklist)
Reach, mix, rate and site access decide it — the numbers, a one-page decision checklist, and how the booking rides on the board.
Read →Pour confirmation, reschedule & cancellation notifications
Tell ready-mix, the pump, and the subs in one click when a pour changes.
Read →The daily pour board for concrete subs
Weather per project, conflict detection, cubic-yard rollups, 90-day rolling Lookahead.
Read →The phase-by-phase schedule you hand the GC
Type the phases, set the crew per week, print the 11×17 — and it feeds the crew forecast.
Read →Crew & manpower
Manpower projection & crew gap analysis
See where you’ll be short before the GC asks — surplus, tight, or short.
Read →Certification tracking with expiry warnings
Badges, a 90/60/30-day Needs Action list, and a warning before you assign a worker missing the job’s cert.
Read →Crew time tracking + ADP/Paychex payroll export
ST/OT/DT timesheets to payroll without the re-keying.
Read →Managing manpower across crews: a 52-week approach
See the shortage a month out — demand vs. scheduled crew, week by week.
Read →The free weekly manpower report template
Excel + Google Sheets: men per day by job and crew, men-days against plan, hours, a daily log tab. No email — just the file.
Read →Certification tracking: staying inspection-ready
The certs a crew carries, and how to catch an expiry before the inspector does.
Read →How much concrete can a crew pour in a day?
Planning rates by equipment, a pour-rate calculator, and the two ceilings that set the real number.
Read →Man-hours per cubic yard: calculator + concrete benchmarks
The math, planning ranges by work type, a calculator against your bid, and why your own tracked rate beats the table.
Read →Manpower productivity for concrete crews: measure it right
Unit rate, output rate, productivity factor — the formulas, the planning benchmarks, and how to read the number weekly.
Read →Manpower: the complete getting-started guide
Branding, foremen, roster and projects, then the weekly crew schedule, Projection, and Analytics.
Read →Daily reports & the field
Five toolbox talks for concrete crews
Cement burns, silica, formwork, pump lines, rebar. One page each, sign-in block included. Free.
Read →Daily reports your Spanish-speaking foreman can file
The form in Español, per user — and the signed PDF the GC gets still reads in English.
Read →The free concrete daily report template
Printable PDF: weather, crew & hours, quantities, delays, safety, signature. One page per day.
Read →The free T&M ticket template
Printable PDF + Excel log: extra work, labor, equipment and materials, and the GC’s signature — quantities only. No email.
Read →Daily reports that don’t get entered twice
Why the field report should post the crew’s hours to time tracking — and kill double entry.
Read →Daily Reports for concrete subs — signed from the field
Foreman files it on the tablet, signs it, sends the PDF — and the hours land in time tracking.
Read →The Manpower board that feeds and receives from the field
Crew prefills out to the report; submitted hours flow back into time tracking.
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