What data actually exists about this industry, who typically holds it, at what granularity, and how obtainable it is. Public means openly published; purchasable is sold by a vendor; partnership needs a bilateral deal; exclusive is effectively locked up by one party.
| Data category | Who holds it | Granularity | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| registry/licensing/permits | Municipal and county building/planning departments, environmental agencies (e.g. stormwater/SWPPP and land-disturbance permits), contractor… | Per permit application / per parcel or site, with issue and status dates | public |
| employment & workforce | National statistics offices (labour force and business surveys), construction training/certification bodies (CSCS, plant operator schemes)… | Monthly regional employment aggregate; per certified operator record | public |
| financial filings | National company registries (Companies House, business registers), credit agencies (D&B, Creditsafe), stock exchanges for listed groups | Annual per legal entity; segment level for large groups | public |
| incident/safety/claims | OSHA/HSE and equivalent labour inspectorates, one-call damage information reporting (CGA DIRT), workers' compensation insurers | Per incident / per inspection / per claim | public |
| weather-dependent metrics | National meteorological services, commercial weather vendors, contractors' delay/claim logs | Daily precipitation/frost/ground condition per site location; per delay event | public |
| waste & emissions | Environmental regulators (waste transfer notes, soil disposal manifests, e.g. UK duty-of-care, US Superfund/state manifests), licensed soil… | Per load/manifest, per site, aggregated monthly by facility | public |
| transactional/sales | Public procurement portals (TED, SAM.gov, national e-tender systems), main contractors' subcontract records, construction data vendors… | Per contract award / per tender lot; per subcontract package | purchasable |
| pricing | Cost-data publishers (RSMeans, SPON's, BCIS), quantity surveyors, contractors' bid databases, aggregate and haulage suppliers | Unit rate per m3 excavated/hauled, per m2 cleared; regional and quarterly | purchasable |
| booking/utilization/occupancy | Plant hire/rental companies (United Rentals, Sunbelt, Loxam), rental analytics vendors (Rouse Analytics, ERA benchmarking) | Per asset per day (on-rent/idle), fleet utilisation monthly by region and… | purchasable |
| maintenance & asset condition | Contractors' fleet maintenance systems, dealers/OEM service networks, used-equipment auction and valuation firms (Ritchie Bros… | Per machine work order / per service event; residual value by model-year | purchasable |
| inventory & supply chain | Quarry and aggregate suppliers, recycled-aggregate and soil treatment facilities, contractors' materials procurement systems | Per delivery order of fill/stone; monthly stock by depot | partnership |
| sensor/IoT | OEM telematics platforms (Caterpillar VisionLink, Komatsu Komtrax, Volvo CareTrack), aftermarket telematics vendors, large earthworks… | Per machine, engine-hour / near-real-time events (idle, load counts, GPS, fuel… | partnership |
| geospatial/movement | Surveying firms, drone-survey providers (Propeller, Trimble, Skycatch), machine-control vendors, one-call/811 utility locate centres… | Per site survey (point cloud / DTM), per locate ticket, per machine position log | partnership |
| energy consumption | Contractors' fuel card providers and bulk diesel suppliers, telematics fuel-burn data, fuel-duty/rebate schemes | Per fuel delivery / per machine per day; monthly per site | partnership |
| logistics & freight movement | Muck-away and tipper haulage operators, aggregate suppliers, e-ticketing platforms (e.g. TRUX, Command Alkon), telematics providers | Per truck load / per haul ticket, daily per site | partnership |
| quality & compliance testing | Geotechnical labs and testing firms, environmental consultants, contaminated-land registries, project owners | Per test / per borehole / per compaction lot on a site | partnership |
| production output | Earthworks contractors, machine-control and drone survey providers computing cut/fill volumes, project owners' progress reporting | Daily or weekly volume moved per site; per machine cycle counts | exclusive |
Compiled by the TriData research system from public registers, industry structure and regulatory reporting obligations; refreshed as the underlying catalogue grows. Look up the code itself in the NACE code finder.