The dumpster was going overweight every job. The fix turned out to be obvious, once someone looked.
A national foundation repair company was eating overweight charges on nearly every project because crews were mixing concrete with general construction debris in a single container. ACR redesigned the waste workflow and the overage charges disappeared.
The Situation
The problem before ACR.
Foundation repair generates one of the heaviest waste streams in residential construction. A single yard of concrete weighs around 4,000 pounds. Add brick, broken footings, dirt from excavation, and the structural debris from access work, and a 20-yard roll-off can hit hauling weight limits before it's even half full. Crews don't always know they're overweight until the bill arrives, with overage charges that can run several hundred dollars per pull.
This client, a national foundation repair company, was running into overweight charges on the majority of their jobs. The standard workflow on every project was: one 20-yard roll-off on site, all debris goes in. The crew didn't think about it. The PM didn't think about it. Nobody was tracking it as a line item until accounting started flagging the overage charges as a recurring cost across every market the company operated in.
When the client brought the problem to ACR, the diagnosis took about ten minutes. Mixing concrete and brick with light construction debris in a single container is the most expensive way to handle foundation repair waste. Heavy material maxes out the container's weight limit fast, and the light debris on top forces a swap-out before the container is visually full. Two containers, one sized small for heavy debris, one larger for light waste, cost less per job than one mixed container plus repeated overage charges.