Excavation & Grading Leads from New Building Permits
Excavation is the first trade on site and the last one anybody thinks to line up early. By the time a grading contractor hears about a project it usually has a general contractor, a schedule, and a number in mind. The permit is filed weeks before any of that: it names the address, the scope, and the declared value, so you can price the dig while the site is still dirt.
The Signals That Matter
Not every permit is a goldmine. We extract the critical descriptions and project valuations that indicate real money is being spent on your trade.
Excavation & Grading Permits
Filings naming excavation, grading, earthwork, or soil removal — the scorer weights these near the top of the feed.
New Construction & Foundations
Ground-up builds need the hole dug and the spoils hauled before anything else happens on site.
Additions & Basements
Vertical and rear additions that need footings, underpinning, or a dig-out under an existing structure.
You Are Bidding Before the Schedule Exists
Earthwork gets awarded early, often before the GC has finished assembling the rest of the trades. A permit filing is the earliest public signal that a real dig is coming, which means your number is the first one on the table rather than the third. It also tells you the scale: a $1.2m ground-up is a different truck count from a rear addition.
How We Detect Them
PingPermit scores every new permit against its work description, and excavation, grading, earthwork, and soil-removal language carries one of the heaviest weights in the engine — alongside new construction, which nearly always implies a dig. Concrete, foundation, slab, and underpinning language is scored too.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q. How early in the project do these appear?
Permits show up in the feed roughly 24 to 48 hours after they are filed with the jurisdiction — typically well before the site is staked and long before subs are being called.
Q. Can I tell how big the dig is?
The feed carries the declared project valuation and the full work description, so you can separate a ground-up multi-family from a garage slab before you spend time on it.
Q. Do I get the contractor to call?
Where the jurisdiction publishes it, yes — the contractor, owner, or applicant named on the permit, with a phone number in the cities that include one.
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