Builders & GCs
Watch the site, clean the slab, inspect from the air, and move material — without buying equipment that sits in a yard between jobs.
Builders and general contractors rent site security, floor scrubbers, aerial inspection drones, and material-handling robots from Service Robot Co. We own each unit, deploy it, service it nationwide, and keep a backup — so you watch the site, keep the slab clean, and move material without a capital purchase or a maintenance burden.
A job site changes week to week. Here is where the repeatable work automates.
Stage 01
Crews work the slab and debris accumulates behind them.
What the robot takes
A sweeper covers the open concrete between trades.
Stage 02
Hard floors go in and need to stay clean for the next trade.
What the robot takes
A scrubber runs the finished areas overnight, no night crew.
Stage 03
Punch-list season means the floors get judged daily.
What the robot takes
The robot runs the same pass every night before walkthroughs.
Stage 04
The site goes dark with equipment and materials in the open.
What the robot takes
A solar camera trailer watches the perimeter with live deterrents.
Stage 05
The job wraps and the equipment need moves with you.
What the robot takes
Rentals hand back or relocate to the next site.
Field notes
Cited industry data · no house numbers
$10k+
Average cost of a break-in across theft, vandalism, and property damage at commercial sites. High-value sites routinely see far larger single-incident losses.
Industry data
12 min
Average law-enforcement response time to a property-crime call in the US runs 11-14 minutes. On-site deterrents intervene in seconds, before the loss happens.
FBI crime data
$60k+
Annual cost of one overnight security guard, fully loaded with wages and benefits. A camera trailer covers more ground than one pair of eyes.
BLS wage data
Each one rented, deployed, serviced, and backed up by us.
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Materials and machines sit in the open between phases. A camera unit watches the laydown yard from day one, before utilities exist.
The trailer brings solar power and cellular, so a bare site works before utilities are connected.
Project rentals land with the phase and hand back when the job wraps.
The repetitive, physical, hard-to-staff ground in builders & gcs. This is what a robot takes.
The two most common robot deployments on construction sites are scrubbers on large concrete slabs and camera trailers for outdoor site security. Floor scrubbers go in when a building is at the point where a hard floor exists and needs to be kept clean — during interior finishing or post-construction handoff prep. The math works because a robot covers ground overnight that would otherwise take multiple crew members hours, without the safety exposure of night-shift cleaning on an active site.
Outdoor security trailers are the other common ask. A camera trailer on a large site provides perimeter surveillance during off-hours without the cost of a manned guard post. Both use cases have the same economics: a project-by-project rental is cleaner than buying equipment that will sit in a yard between jobs and need someone to maintain it.
Customers in construction typically recover deployment cost within the first few months through reduced overnight labor and on-site security spend.
A few questions to narrow it down. Answer yes or no and we will tell you where it leads.
Question 01
Do you have large hard-floor areas — concrete slabs or finished floors — that need regular cleaning during or after the build?
Yes — floor cleaning is the job
A large-area scrubber is the fit. It runs large concrete and hard-surface floors overnight or alongside a crew, on a project rental you hand back when the job wraps.
No
Next: Do you need outdoor perimeter security or surveillance for the site during off-hours?
Question 02
Do you need outdoor perimeter security or surveillance for the site during off-hours?
Yes — site security is the gap
A mobile security camera trailer is the right fit. It covers the perimeter with a visible deterrent and remote monitoring, with no fixed infrastructure and no manned post required.
Not sure yet — contact us
We will ask about the site and the job, and tell you what fits before you commit to anything.
A GC needs automation on some jobs, not every one. Renting keeps it off the balance sheet and out of the maintenance routine — we service the unit and carry the spare, so it works when the job calls for it.
Rent from us
One cost. We carry the machine, the service, and the spare.
Upfront cost
One predictable monthly rental.
Maintenance
Included. We service it and carry the parts.
When it breaks
We swap in a backup unit and you keep your schedule.
Scaling
Add units for the busy months, hand them back after.
Who owns the risk
We own the machine, the service, and the downtime.
Buy it yourself
The machine is yours. So is everything after.
Upfront cost
$4-50k per machine, before it does a day of work.
Maintenance
Your team, or a service contract you manage.
When it breaks
You lose the time while it waits on a fix.
Scaling
Idle hardware on the books in the slow season.
Who owns the risk
All of it sits on your side of the ledger.
Ranges are publicly-reported market figures, not quotes. We confirm the real number for your site in a quote.
Want the full math? The robot pricing & RaaS guide has real ranges by robot type and the rent-vs-buy breakdown.
Support & service
Lead case study12 stores Chainwide rolloutRetail Floor Care Case Study: More Than $50K Per SiteA documented 12-location supercenter chain replaced outsourced overnight floor cleaning with autonomous scrubbers and saved more than $50K per site.Read the case studySolutions that apply
Tell us the job and the site. We will recommend the robot, quote the rental, and keep it running.
Free site assessment. We tell you what actually works before you spend a dollar.
