They dug and graded and parked right next to my tree during the build, and now it looks bad

At the time of the damage: cut root ends showing in a trench wall, a scraped or re-graded surface inside the root area, ruts, a compacted pad where equipment or materials sat, or fresh fill spread over the roots. Later, and this is what most people actually notice: leaves smaller than usual, fall color arriving weeks early, dead twigs at the top and outer edges of the crown, sprouts erupting along the trunk, and a canopy thin enough to see sky through. The damaged side of the crown usually goes first, matching the side that was dug.

Within days