Stopping project delays in their tracks: how plan sets can help

Welcome everyone who's joined so far. We are presenting today the title, stopping project delays in their tracks, how plan sets can help. So going into the next slide here, a little bit about me. The guy who's gonna be talking to you for at least the first five minutes of today is Hunter Kemp. I am a sales manager over at HCSS, and I oversee all our products. And I'm kind of a jack of all trades, master of none. So I'm pretty good with plans, but I'm not the master of it. Hence, why we have John Bradshaw on today. He is the technical product manager of plans, and he's actually gonna be driving most of the webinar today. It's also both our first webinars, so this is a really historical moment here at ACSS as a whole. But Not not not not a recall. Before going into the next piece here, and the real heart of the webinar is I want to give a shout of who exactly is HCSS. Majority of people on this webinar, from what I've seen so far, are customers. However, there are some that aren't customers, and there are customers who just really aren't that familiar with who they're doing business with. So to start off, we are the number one provider of software in the heavy civil space. We work with eighteen of the top twenty transportation contractors, forty three of the top fifty heavy civil, and most importantly to me, over four thousand contractors of every size. Doesn't matter if you're a couple crew mom and pop shop or if you're a few billion dollar enterprise company. We are built to help companies scale regardless of their size. So outside of that, something I want to also note here is our different product offerings. So, again, today's focus on plans, but I wanna give a shout to a few of our flagship solutions. We were founded our estimating software heavy bid that is essentially allowing us to quickly develop cost budgets and get a proposal out the door. Once we wing that work, it all goes over to heavy job, which allows me to consolidate my field information and track job cost on a daily basis to know if I'm making or losing money. So that's a couple I wanna give a shout out to. We have safety solution as well, several things around fleet tracking, and most importantly, the topic of today, plants management. And outside of a sales guy who just wants to you to buy everything on this pie chart, there is a reason I'm telling you about this stuff. There is gonna be several integrations today we're discussing that actually speaks from plans to our other products. So there's some stuff here on the webinar that some of you customers, Mary, owned that you don't realize that plans can actually connect with. So, John, go ahead and take us to the next piece here, and I believe this is when you're gonna start driving with today's webinar objectives. You you mentioned that. So the, well well, before we even get into the objectives, I'd like to go ahead and request that if y'all have any questions about, about what you're seeing in plans, something that, something that you're in you're you're you're you're interested in or you wanna learn or or you wanna know about, please use the q and a feature, available in, available in Zoom. Should be on at the, should be down at the bottom of your of your screen. We have, we have some folks here from HCSS who will be monitoring that, myself and Hunter as as well. And, we'll either answer those questions as they cut as they come up as the opportunity presents itself, or we'll get into it in the, in the in the q and a session at the at the end of the webinar. So now we're moving on. And so here today, the the things we're gonna be talking about and how, HCSS plans as a tool using as a tool for, your construction plan sets can help you can help you reduce the delays that, that that can happen that can happen in your prod in in your in your projects. And we cut and we we four of the four of the specific things we're gonna be talking about are gonna be how, that communication that is available can help between the field and office can help reduce delays. You can also see how HCS HCS software can identify and fix potential delays early in the construction process. Gonna discover how tools that can improve plan we can discover tools that can improve planning for the day, week, or across the entire project. Then finally, improving accuracy in your field takeoffs saves time and avoids and avoids waste waste. And before we get into it, we're gonna go ahead and launch our first poll question. How do you distribute your plan sheets to the to the field? This is what what sort of what sort of tools are you using? Is it is it are you actually printing out and distributing? Are you using a, like a PDF viewer, say, Acrobat or just your your your browser, and a, shared drive? Do you have a dedicated plan or document tool? Maybe something included with your with with your, project management software, or some specific construction plan software or HCSS plans. And we're starting to get some responses in. And they're starting to slow down. I'm gonna close the poll in about five, four, three, two, one. Poll is closing. And really kinda where where where I thought it where I thought it would be. There's still a number you know, we we we run across it all we run across it all the time. You know, number of folks who are still, who who are still who are still using paper. And, you know, while while we have a vested interest in helping you progress off of there, man, you know, paper's actually paper's actually pretty useful. But I think something I hope you all will see today, is some some of the additional value you can get out of you can get out of software and then HTSS plan specifically. And so how do you how does how can can improve your communication and reduce delays? What this gets to, and it's something that, you know, I've run across throughout my throughout my career throughout my career before I joined eight CSS and, since joining eight CSS is, you know, improving a lot a lot of people say they want to improve communication as, like, a goal. Something that they are working towards. You know, improving communication isn't actually a goal in and of itself. You want to improve communication to accomplish something else. And And in this case, one of the things that we we do with plans, one one of the ways that plans can help improve communication is you are able to quickly get your your your project managers, your folks back in the office on the exact same page, literally the exact same page as your your crews and your crew leads, your form and your superintendent, your superintendents out in the field. So whenever a whenever a question arises from the field or question comes from the fee from the office to the field, everyone is able to, as quickly as they can, grab them grab a grab their device, whether it's an iPhone or an iPad, be told what sheet they they need to look at. They're able to actually get right there, and you're able to know that everyone is looking at the not just the exact same sheet, but the current but the the most current revision of it. One of the things the HCS has plans does is, when your as your project as your project grows, as new new revisions come in, we take that we take that previous vision and we stack the new the new revision right on top of it. We go ahead and put a big old void, right across that, right across the right across that old sheet. So anyone who is who is not using the, who is not using that most current version for whatever reason is being told, hey. You're you're using you're you're not on that current one. Go ahead and go ahead and switch over. And another and the way the way HCSS plans gets everyone onto that same gets everyone onto that same page is you are you take your you take your plan sheets, you upload them into, you know, into HCSS plans, and then they're stored on the cloud, and they are distributed out. Now for a lot of the projects y'all are working on, Internet service is maybe spotty, might not even be available. The way HCS plans work, the eight the way HCS plans avoids that being an issue is on our mobile device, it actually it actually installs that it it it installs that project onto your mobile device and then keeps it updated as you are connected to the Internet. And then if you're no longer on the Internet, your users are still able to use it. They're able to perform what they need to do. And then when they have service restored, it's it it updates, synchronizes, and all of their changes are are are immediately reflected. So, you know, for for so usually, at the worst, your folks will be out of out of connectivity for may for maybe a day, and then all that work will go ahead and get a and get up and and get updated. So you don't have people working off of older expired seats for days or weeks until it's finally caught during, some issue cropping up or, you know, heaven heaven forbid, as you're getting ready, like, hand over the project or going over, going over it or trying to track down, trying to track down as built. The the improved communication here, again, goes to everyone is looking at the exact same is everyone is looking at the exact same thing at the exact same time. During a recent visit to a, to an to to an HCSS customer, I was speaking with the with one of their project managers, and he told us about a, a a situation had arisen at one of their projects. And the foreman was calling into the office and was telling the telling the project manager, hey. You need you need to get out here. We need to you need to take a look at this. You need to see what's happening. We've gotta we've gotta start making a plan to to address what's going on. And this, project and this project manager knows that it's gonna be an hour commute out there and an hour back. So that's gonna be two hours of two hours of his day that is gonna no longer be spent working in the office, but it's gonna be it's gonna be windshield time. But before making that decision, he asked the foreman to pull up plans. Foreman pulled up plans for him. They and he asked the foreman to go ahead and drop a flag, and that's a feature that is in that is in plans. It drops a pin that look shows your location and then shares that information. Hunter Hunter is actually gonna go ahead and, show this to us now. Yeah. So I just started screen sharing, so, hopefully, everyone could see that. But what I'm viewing now is HTS' plans on a specific plan sheets off my iPad. So as John mentioned, that foreman needs to drop a pin on his job site. Very simple to do. I'm just clicking on my little blue dot showing my location there. I hit place pin, and I just dropped a nice little blue flag right there that includes the lat and long and details of my location information, identifying specifically where I'm at. Now from the manager's perspective, they should be able to then, as I drag over the manager system here, almost instantly, faster than I could even drag and drop the, separate screen here, drop the flag right where that location was set. So, again, there's that instant communication between the field and the office that John's just talking about. Something else I want to give a shout to because I love just cross selling and talking about integrations is another great point here in that communication between plans in the office is the ability to create an issue right off of the plan sheet. For, getting getting messages that you're you're not you're not you're not being you're not being shown. John, do you wanna stop sharing from your side and see if that shows mine? And, Jack, can someone confirm? Is my screen I I see. Thank you, Wyatt. Thank you, John. Thank you, Brandon. Alright. Perfect. Go back to the, why don't you go ahead and delete that out? Problem. Yeah. Or add another one. Just add another one. Yeah. And you know what? I'm a bring that pin up there, and I'm gonna go ahead and drop another pin on top of me right now. Drop pin. So now we got a couple of different flags here, maybe a little location markers. And, again, I'm a foreman trying to let the office know about this. And now from the office perspective, as I drag over the manager system of plans, they already got notified about these two pin drops. So you see, it updates almost instantly as fast as that LT connection can connect with the manager side. So, again, that quick communication, I think, is very valuable, which is why I also wanna give a They're still not seeing your screen. Really? Alright. Alright. We have some people saying that you some people have to manually do it. Some people might be auto doing it. Maybe it's one of the Zoom settings curious about. Yeah. Gavin says you need to change the tabs on the top of the screen. Alright. They're saying, listen to Bucky, and Bucky's saying you have to mainly change your view via the views the Zoom view option. Okay. Jacob said it's working. Russell says he sees it now. Quick Hunter screen in the top slight left. Man, you think it should be automatically changing it, John? It it was it it was when we were, when we Yeah. It was on the it was on the practice yesterday. Guy called me hunt dog. Because it's not happening now I love that. Which is which is what matters. Hey. If you want me to drop a third pin, I will go for it. I'm I will have no shortage of pins today. Third time's the chart, man. I'm gonna drop a pin. So now we got several different descriptions going on here. And so, again, I'm on my iPad right now. Let me go ahead and pop open the desktop version. And you see within probably about six seconds there, I already got the new pen dragged to to the top. So, again, that instant communication between the field and the office is what I've been harping on a little bit. And I'm taking a step further by mentioning a heavy job integration not everyone might know about. Heavy job itself, you can create issues. On HSS plans, you can create issues right off the plan sheet and tie them with annotations. So let's go ahead and get rid of a couple of these flags here. Let's not clear this up too crazy. Let's look at this one right here. Let's say this had a, I don't know, a pipe burst. I can hit then that icon in the very bottom, that little explanation point, and that allows me to then tie a issue with this annotation. So we're gonna call this, pipe burst, add a description. I'm not let's say it's bad. I'm real creative for my descriptions here. And give it a due date. I want this figured out by couple weeks, and now I can add attachments. So I can tie photos with this, and I'll take a picture of something amusing. Oh, actually, I have a toothpick here, And now it's now it's a broken pipe. So now I added that photo to this issue, and I can actually mark it up as well. So if I'm trying to pinpoint that where that pipe burst at, I have now created that issue with the annotation. And you could see that right off plans where I could see that attachment and issue icon next to that. Now from the heavy job standpoint, where does it show up? It shows up in project management. So in case you don't know, project management is essentially one of the document control modules out of heavy job itself. And I'm gonna go ahead and pull it up on my screen here. See. So popping over project management. Here's kind of how it looks like. Again, part of heavy job here. Now I'm gonna go over to my issue log, And you see right at the top, there's that burst pipe burst in the one I did yesterday. This one is an exclamation point, so it's a little more more urgent. So I could go ahead as a project manager, click into this, and start adding a little bit more information and context around that issue. So maybe, like, adding a tying it with a cost code, relating it to any other items, and then assigning out to possibly a job owner and escalating this into an RFI. So, again, this is, I think, a really cool integration that not a lot of people know about between HSS plans and HeavyJob. And I'll go ahead and stop sharing and let you take back over, John. Yep. And, so any of the photos that you take in HCSS plans, are automatically gonna show up in that form in in that form in time card, over in over in heavy jobs. So they'll be available in your daily digest and your time card, and that'll let and that allows everyone that allows all of your all of your stakeholders, to very to to very quickly improve their understanding of of what is happening out at the, of what is happening out at the, out at the off-site. So now we're gonna move on to our next question, which is how is the office made aware of issues from the field? Is Is it a phone call? Is it in text or an email? Is it a project is it project management software, combination of a and b, or, you don't know and you just get and you just get surprised? Alright. So far, we're seeing a lot of the a and b response. That's interesting. And then Anthony says he's leveraging HTSS chats. That's pretty cool. You'll be able to push HCSS chats and plans very very very shortly, Anthony. Okay. Responses are kinda slowing down. Just about what, probably just about what we would have expected. Gonna go ahead and close it out in five, four, three, two, one. Thank you all for your, thank you all for your responses. It really help us better understand, what y'all are, how y'all are how y'all are working and what we can and, you know, what what what we can do on the, product on the product development side to, to to to make the software to make the software better. So moving on to our, you know, our next our next point of discussion. Early early identification is key. One of the things that h that uploading your plan sets into HCSS plans can can help you with very early in the very early in the construction process, even in the, even in the estimating and pre bid phase, is being able to improve your understanding of what the of what the what the actual world looks like where that project is happening. Way plans does that. Is we have a, we we have we we have a couple of features that use location services, that are that are that are that are available. And what this does is it locates your plan set into the into the real into the real world. You saw with, with with Hunter's demo earlier, you were getting latitude and longitude, as well as station as well as station data, which is the, you know, this is this is the actual in Northern Easting. So this is the actual physical information. And what we do is we can go ahead and overlay that onto a onto a onto onto a map that you can then, take that plan set and from your, you know, your your estimators from their desk can overlay those sheets and start seeing what's happening on what's actually gonna be happening on the ground, where they're going to be where they're go where this project is going to be built. And this can help you find obvious changes, from when that plan set was originally created, to when to when you're actually going to to when you're actually going to be building. We'll we'll usually see things like, new new residential construction. Some structures have been have been built in have been built in the area. And these are all things that you can you can very quick you can very quickly identify, and you can start accounting for that, as you're and as you as you start building your estimate out. And then if you use plans during, like, your pre bid or pre construction walk through, you're able to have that you're able to have your mobile device open, your iPad open, you're able to have your iPad or iPhone, actually. You have your your plan set, and you can just walk around and see, you know, in this green field, hey. There's been a new there's there's a there's a box that suggests that there has been a, that there's been, like, a fiber optic line, just just ran just ran through this area. Or, one that we actually hear hear hear a lot of from our, from our customers, is being able to identify if they, if, like, in this this new site that they need to prepare, if it is some very easy to clear, some very easy to clear terrain and vegetation or if it's actually some pretty thick and heavy some pretty thing heavy things, large large bushes, maybe even some, maybe maybe even maybe even some trees, and they're able to go ahead and estimate out. Hey. We we need we need a heavy we're gonna need a we're gonna need heavier resources when it comes to, when it comes for for clearing and, when it comes for the clearing and grubbing for this site. So, Hunter's now gonna kinda show the show the map view to see what I'm, see what I'm talking about. And Yep. So get a quick thumbs up from folks. Thumbs up or thumbs down if you're seeing Hunter's screen right now. Should be eight CSS plans and full of sheets. Yep. So I'm back. Awesome. I'm seeing several thumbs up. A lot of thumbs up. So No thumbs back, which is what's really important. Yeah. So I'm back on the HSS plans app here off the iPad, and you can see at the very top, I'm currently on sheets. And I can actually toggle to map view. And as John was saying, now I'm actually getting a complete overview of that map. And, John, what was that story you wanted to kind of tell off of this? The story you know, so what what it what it comes here is so we have you know, this is the this this is FM seven twenty three, just a couple of miles from the, from from the HCSS campus here in Sugar Land, Texas. And we have this project that we have uploaded and, added the location sir and added the location services information to it. So what Hunter is now able to do is he can zoom in, all the way down to the lowest possible level you can zoom on, in this case, Apple Maps. And you can start seeing and you can start seeing where the where where the actual lines on the plan are in where they relate to the real world. But it's actually kinda hard to see here right now because we have the background on. So, Hunter, can you go ahead and, turn off the background for it? Background is off. Yeah. So you can you can have this background. You can turn off that background, and you can start very clearly seeing, where the where the the drawings are saying stuff is going to go or where stuff exists and where stuff that actually exists in the real world is, at least as of the date of this, as of the date of when this, when the when this photo when this photo was, when the satellite image was was was uploaded. And this just allows, as I said, very early on, in your project to start gaining a greater understanding of what it is that you're of of what it is the work that you're you're interested in take and you're interested in taking on. In addition to it, you can use this to identify some other issues, that that you might have, not necessarily in the project itself, but in the logistics around the around the project. Like, are are you gonna have issues with site access? Are there good you know, is there is there good are there good entry and into exit points? Is is sourcing of your materials going to be an issue? Is there a, you know, is there a residential area and you're gonna run into issues installing a concrete plant nearby? So are you gonna have to go further to get those those those materials? Where is your where is your source of dirt, or where are you taking excess dirt to? And you can really just start kind of getting all of that information and orienting it around what in orienting it around, the the the project you're interested in, you're you're interested in building. Yeah. So good story, John. And as John kinda mentioned, you could kinda see some key points that's happening on this map here. So there's some photos I've taken out of their plan sheets, and you could see exactly where those photos were taken off that plan sheet, and the annotations around them. Something else that was a bit newer that came out, I believe or was it earlier this year, John, was being able to view yellow iron right off of your plan sheet. So if anyone's familiar with HSS Telematics, we provide our own GPS units built for both over the road and heavy equipment. We also have in HTSS Telemax, the ability to connect with your current OEM provider. So if you're already using something like VisionLink or JDLink or one of those providers, we can actually pull data from there into HSS Telemax, which in turn can feed other software, something like HSS plans. So right now, it looks like I have an excavator and a dozer down here that I can see right off my plan sheet. Not only that, but we took it a step further. I can actually click on one of these pieces of equipment and get a little bit of information on it. So now I'm seeing it not only on that map view, but I could see its fuel level. There's gonna be a few other rings depending on what information we're pulling from that model of equipment. But we see the location, coordinates, ability to ping it, serial number, meter reading. And down here, I can actually even see the engine and idle hours. So, again, this is something really cool that recently came out of plans that I think provides a lot of benefit. John was even saying before, if I'm moving a large piece of equipment, and maybe I use my plans to find out, there's gonna be an overhead utilities line that's gonna completely block this conveyor from even going through by this section of the road. So wherever that story is, I am now able to see that visualized on a map with my plans overlaid with equipment information. Again, something I find super cool. So I'll let you take it back over, John. Thank you very thank you very much for that. So that's gonna move us into our final poll question, and that is going to be I don't see the crew needs oh, where their equipment is every day. Okay. We're getting split. Okay. Responses are starting to slow down, probably about where, where we'd expect. Gonna close the poll in five, four, three, two, one. Lots of folks using, lots of few lots of folks using lots of folks using DPS. Lots of folks also manually, manually tracking the location. Gives us a good idea. I'd be curious how many of the people who are tracking it with a GPS is using an OEM provider versus another GPS solution or HTSS Telemax already. That that'd be a really good poll. That'd be a really good question to come up with. I wish we thought of that before. Mhmm. Another way to help, to to to help avoid delays is having the right tools to improve, to improve planning. And this is improving both in immediate for, like, that next for that next big day or that or that upcoming week. If they're in their, you know, if they're in their their heavy job if they're in if they're using heavy jobs production planner, or over the over the course of the or over the course of the over the course of the entire over the course of the entire project. And some of the tools we have available, Hunter went on ahead and just showed one of them, which is our which is our equipment integration with, with telematics. And that very and and that one allows your your crew leads as they are planning what their what their work is, to be able to know, hey. If they need a specific piece of a specific piece of equipment or a specific type of equipment, they can pull up their they can pull up plans and be able to see where that equip where that equipment is. Is it going to be available for them? And not just is it, like, physically present at the job. Is it actually up is it actually ready is it actually ready to operate? Or is it a piece of equipment that it's fuel it's low on fuel? So at some point in time, it is going to have to be refueled during the day or is there a potential maintenance issue? And if there, you know, if there isn't if if there isn't a maintenance issue, you can find your your crew leads are able to find that out sooner. So they go ahead and request a request either a different piece of equipment or, get your fleet or maintenance operations out there to, to to to service them at that vehicle and keep it running at its best at at in its best condition. The other thing some of the other things you're able to use, the some of the other tools we have available in HCSS plans, are our is our location compare. And our location compare is actually a pretty powerful tool. It's basic it's basically like the old light box that would be in the, back in the back in the trailer at the job site, but in your but in your but in your pocket. You're able to pull up a pull up any sheets within the project and compare them either against any other sheet or, specifically at your at your location. And the way this one, was was really shown to us was, me and, me and one of one of the gentlemen I work with, Andrew Fowler, who is actually in the who is actually in this, in in this right now. I saw you in there, Andrew. We were standing there talking with the superintendent from a company that uses HCSS plans, and he was we're standing at the we're standing at the edge of a bridge of an overpass that is gonna be constructed. And he's looking at his plans, and he's just going, I want to be able to compare where I'm at right now with all of the other stuff that has to happen in this project at this place. So that was like the existing utilities right of way, the different phases that this project was. And he just wanted to get all of that understanding to better to better be able to plan the work that they were going to be doing, over the over the over the coming week. And Andrew and I just kinda stood there and was like, man, that is a brilliant idea. So we went on ahead and added in a feature that allows you to overlay multiple sheets, on top of one another based on, you know, bay based on your location. And, Hunter, would you be, you'd be nice enough to show that again? I would be so nice enough, John. So, yeah, pop it back on to the sheet I've been on. However, I'm gonna actually scroll to the right to view a previous sheet. You could see that blue dot shows exactly where I am on that sheet, and there's a stitch together. So I'm actually going to hit my blue dot and go ahead and hit the location compare button. And I'm gonna go ahead and select the tag here. So I'm gonna do my electric overhead here. Scroll down a little bit. Yeah. I wanna view my utilities from the connected plan sheets one twenty seven and one thirty. Hit compare. And now I have an overlay of my plan sheets on top of one another. And, John, do you want to add something here, I believe? I actually do because, we we got a question from, from from Jacob of is there any way to have annotations appear on the map overlay? And I just realized now he said map overlay, not the location overlay. So, I will answer a question he did not ask, which is you can show you can show annotations in the location compare. So down at that bottom left hand side, Hunter can tap on that, and it will make the annotations appear there. But to actually answer your question, Jacob, no. We don't have a way to do that yet. It is on it is something we have been we have been considering. If you, go to the, HCS road map site road if you go to the HCSS road map site, and follow plans, when that becomes something we're gonna start working on, you'll be able to you'll be able to see it there. So yeah. Sorry to interrupt you there, Hunter. Oh, no. All good. I was letting you take it away. Okay. Yeah. Well, then I'll go ahead. And so what what this is doing is it is taking all of those all those plans that have been located in that in that location, and it is over and it is overlaying them, based on the based on the location of where Hunter where Hunter and his device were. So you're now able to start seeing, all of the other items that are happening within this project that are that are happening at this at this location regardless of where it's happening in the project. So this one is a combination of, well, the traffic control plan, the bridge layout, the, actual construction, the plan and profile, and then a utility and then a utility layout. So, you know, all of those all those things together that would otherwise be you know, you're gonna have to flip through multiple different pages or you're gonna have to go into you're gonna have to back out and go to a different folder. You're able to get all of that information in there. And then you're also able to, you can take this you can take this you can take this overlay, and you can go ahead and share it. So if there's something in here that, you need to you need to you need to mark you need to mark up or call attention to, like, there's a there's a conflict at a location, You can go ahead and mark you can go ahead and mark that up and then share that, with what with whoever you with whoever you need to share it with with. Whether it's your project manager, whether it's the project owner because it's part of a because it's a part of a change order or a potential change order. You know, those are the, those are some of the tools available to help to help improve to help improve planning, and avoid, with with the aim of avoiding avoiding unnecessary delays in the project. Back to me. Then finally, you know, accuracy matters. And the way this has been described to me is that, everyone has that that crew lead, that foreman, that superintendent, that, that that team that team member who can just look at an area and estimate the size of it, estimate the quantity estimate the quantity of material that will be required to perform the work that they have to do within fractions of a percentage point. They have they are very experienced. They are very observant. They're very understand they they have a you know, they're they're they're they're very understanding people who can, you know, just look at that and synthesize that information and get a very spot on, and get a very spot on quantity. And then you have other folks who you wouldn't net who you would double check their work on two plus two equals four. And one of the tools available in one of the tools available in plans and really one of its one of its core values, one of the one of the core values that it delivers to to you, is being able to quickly generate accurate quant quantities, regardless of regardless of the regardless of the user's actual, like, knowledge of math. And the way it does that is through a combination of being able to generate quantities based on the mark. The markups will inherently have their length, an area, or a vault, or you can provide a third dimension and get a and and get a volume for it. It. And then we also have the ability to further calculate, other values, weight, a rate of app a rate of application for some materials so you can figure out how how much you're going to need or how much your production might look like, and then some other, you know, some other some other calculators that we that that we that we have available. So if you wanna go ahead and, show that, show that, Hunter? I would love to. So back to one of my last screen shares of the day today. But, yeah, I went back onto my plan sheet here. And something John mentioned before and I really wanna emphasize is the ease of use of being able to perform those quick takeoffs. Again, you don't need to have a college degree or hell, you don't even need a high school degree to be able to figure this out. It's fairly simple. But me going into the very bottom here of my little black tool belt, hitting this little polygon icon, and hitting tap, tap, tap, and double tap, and already getting a little quick measurement of this road. Maybe we're seeing how much asphalt we laid for the day. And you'd see I can do some very minute adjustments using these pins around the corner, and I am live updating that, the linear feet there or the linear yards and the area. And let's say I wanna do a volume measurement as well onto this. Very bottom left, I can hit that ruler icon and go ahead and display the volume. And let's give it a measurement. Let's say about eight inches here. Save. And just like that, I have a nice volume measurement there. Again, fairly quick and easy to do, and we took it a step further as John mentioned. And because we're so focused for the heavy civil space, right next to that ruler icon is these little handy calculators here. Now something I think personally is pretty cool as a guy who had doesn't have a ton of construction experience is next to all these different heavy civil calculators, there's a little question mark by it. This question mark tells you exactly how that, calculation is performed. And, also, there's a video associated with it. So it's a nice little HSS Academy way of kind of teaching anyone who's interested in how to perform that. But, again, you don't have to be an expert on how as long as I do it. So let me go into my asphalt here, and you'll see it's already put my area in there and my depth. And with that volume and density, I now have a weight of three hundred and forty three tons. So awesome. I'm actually gonna go ahead and save that, and we'll just call it webinar calc. And I'm gonna hit save. I'm I'm very Go ahead, John. Gonna mention something here, here, Hunter. And while it says asphalt, really, this is this is just a tonnage calculator. You can use that you can use that calculator for dirt. You can use that for, basically, anything that you need to anything that you need to derive a weight from a volume for as long as you know how much, you know, what the what the what the weight per unit is, for that, for that material. Exactly. And you can even see that. Again, if I hit the little help thing, it tells me exactly this is a weight calculator. So for my sake, I'm using it for just laying asphalt, and that's what the cost code's asking for. That's the quantity I need to report. Maybe from needing to order asphalt standpoint, you can also do it that way as well to get a little bit more quick and accurate measurements. Next, I wanna mention an integration with HeavyJobPure. So as you saw, I just did about three hundred forty tons of, asphalt off the sanitation, and that's saved to my clipboard. And I am more than welcome to go and copy and paste that somewhere or save it in my handy little plans notepad in the top right corner. But another cool integration of HeavyJob is I can actually jump over to that field app, open up that time card, and I'm gonna go ahead and copy my prior crew. So now I got my cost codes listed at the top. I'm gonna click into that paved mainline. And now I'm on the cost code screen. In the middle of it, I can actually input my quantity. Instead of manually typing that out though, I can actually hit the HSS plans icon, hit that refresh button, and you'll see that asphalt calculation titled webinar calc I did today popped right up, allowing me to get accurate quantity for my cost code that in turn gives the product managers or the project managers more accurate measurements on exactly how much work was performed today. Back to you, John. Yep. Yeah. And then the the the the importance of this is twofold. First, the the more accurate the more accurate your your your your the the estimated quantities are, the less waste you're gonna have. You're gonna have you're you're gonna be you you can get a better control of your over of your overages or do a better job of avoiding under ordering. And then, what's really important with this is it becomes something that you can actually go back and check and double check. You can have your you can have your crew leads put in their estimates for the materials they either need for the either the material they want to order or the material that they or the product or what they perform that day. And then you can actually go back and take a look at how did you how did you how did you determine that how did you determine this number? So you can you can very quickly start seeing, you know, if you have if you have someone who's under who's under who's routinely under ordering, you can see what you can see what they're doing that is that is causing them to make that to to to to that that is causing them to do that. Is it a process thing on their side? Is it a, you know, is it a it is is it a mistake in what you had in what your production rates in what your production rates were? Are you not hitting that are you not hitting that per are you not hitting the production rates you need? You know, really just it allow it allows you to get all of your all of your crew leads, to a to a higher level, and reduce that gap between your absolute best ones, and the ones who are young and need a little bit more experience or, you know, just, maybe just need a little bit little bit more help. Alright. And real quick before we go up this slide, Rob asked a great question. He said, Hunter, I saw some of the notes automatically came in after you pulled quantities and HSS plans into your time card. What were they? Are the calculations justifying the quantity? Rob, the answer is yes. So I'm going to share my screen real quick so I could just show exactly as a project manager. I want to know where that foreman got that calculation from. Is he just pencil upping it? Is he actually pulling from HSS plans? Where did the notes come in at? So because I pulled from HSS plans, you'll notice the notes in the middle of the cost code here. On the left side, it automatically copied that calculator's notes into the private company notes here. So I could see I used asphalt calculator at this time of day, on sheet one twenty seven. There's the volumes I used, there's the density, and there's the result. So hopefully, that answers the question, Rob. And, again, great way of being able to kind of prove or show off that work of what the formula was able to do. And then to kind actually, to kind of, to kinda talk a little bit more more about that is, one of the power one of the great things about the calculators is that you can you can add multiple annotations to it. You know, we we know that not all of your work is going to happen entirely within this one little space, that this sheet represents. It's gonna be crossing sheets. It's going to be multiple locations throughout the entire, you know, throughout the entire project. So what you can do is you can actually add multiple annotations into a calculator. And as those annotations are added to it, the quantities the quantities are the quantities are adjusted. So it's it it it consolidates all that information down into a single source that you can then go back, check, and double check, and that you you you really just get a better understanding of what's going on. And, again, it helps you it helps you it helps you reduce the avoidable delays, that can happen, that can happen over the project as well as in this in this particular case, reducing waste. If you're, you know, if you're ordering if you're if you're not over ordering as much, that's saving money in not just in the material, but having the store and the new and and transport that to, to to other locations. So with that, gonna kind of, do a little bit of a wrap up before we move into the, the q and a. If you have any other if you have any other questions, been kind of monitoring the chat, and there's a couple in there that I know we wanna call that that I wanna that I want to address. But if you do have any quest any other questions, please go into the q and a section and, put them there. Nicole, I saw yours. We'll we'll we'll talk about that very shortly. You know, the using plan using plan sets and using h using ATSS plans for your plan sets, you know, helping to helping to stop project delays, you know, improve communication, everyone on this everyone on the same page. Just saving those couple of minutes, every time that you have to talk with someone adds up over the course of over the core over the course of a project. And that is leaving aside all the opportunities where you're able to, through that improved communication, avoid a Siri avoid a serious problem, be able to prevent rework, or be able to, be able to capture be able to capture costs through a, through through a change order from a from an from an issue or an RFI. You know, early ident early identification. The the more information you have about your project as you are determining what it's going to cost for what it's going to cost you to build it for, that project owner, you know, helps helps you get the right resources to do to perform the right you get the you you can identify the right resources that you need to perform the work you have to do, or be able to answer questions or have better knowledge of what you're going to need. And that goes into, again, better planning throughout the entire throughout the entire project. Do we, you know, do I have the reason the the is the piece of equipment that I'm going to rely on for my next day's work actually available? Yes or no. You can very quickly answer those questions using HTSS plans and HTSS telematics, and then avoiding waste. Don't or, you know, don't have to have quite as much overage, because you you're getting better your your your crews are getting better at estimating how much material that they do that they are going to require. Or, even better, you're able to avoid delays when it turns out that you under that someone under ordered. And now you have to rapidly source material or even worse, you have to stop a pour because you don't have enough con because you don't have enough because you didn't order enough concrete. Anyway, so those are the ways to do it, and we're gonna go ahead and move over into the q and a. And I'm gonna start with the one from, from from Nicole of all the trainings in the CSS Academy for how to overlay the plan sheets with maps and how to connect the sheets together. There is not a instruction on overlaying the plan sheets with the map because overlaying the plan sheets with the map is done automatically if you connect the sheets together. And there are trainings available in the academy on how to do the on how to place the location services, on how to enable location services in your project. So I hope that, I hope that answers your question, Nicole. Gustavo. Yes. Absolutely. There are different different different different they're not different versions of the same drawing on the desktop manager side. Yes. Yes. There is. I know I've been saying that for the better part of about nine months now. It is getting it is getting closer. It is getting closer. Bucky, problem with the accuracy of location services not on Wi Fi or a solid or a solid data connection. That is you know, the the accuracy of the location services is going to be limited to the accuracy of the device you're of the device you're using. What that does mean is if you're using a, you know, if you're using your your your your if you're using your cell phone as, like, you know, if you're using, like, a cell phone hotspot to connect a a, you know, Wi Fi a Wi Fi, iPad to it or an iPad with with its own with its own Wi Fi service, it is going to be limited to the, to the accuracy. Unfortunately, it's gonna be limited to the accuracy of the device. And then the accuracy of the overlay with the survey, with with the survey coordinates. We are we we have improved the zoom on when you're actually adding in the location services. So you can get that a little bit closer, a little a little bit deeper into the sheet and get a better view of where exactly you're placing those, where exactly you're placing those pins that enable, that that enable location services. And then I'm actually from Pittsburgh. So I'm a little little bit of a yinzer there. A a question I kinda wanted some back and forth on, John, that got asked is Megan asked, does HSS plans connect to HSS safety? Currently, no. But my question would be for Megan. What integration are you hoping to see between HSS plans and safety? Because I can make some guesses, but I would love to hear, kind of your thoughts or ideas from yourself of what you would like to see between integration of safety and plans. And feel free to send that in a chat or type it out. But currently, there is no integration between the two. Jorge, HCSS plans HCSS plan doesn't, but if you have a GPS receiver linked to your tablet, it will use the GPS from that device. Let's see. People are jumping back and forth between the q and a section and the side option. Photos be stamped with the header, footer statement, or GPS locations? Yes. They can. If you take your photo and you hit and you select the markup option, one of the markup tools is a stamp, and that stamp will put the date, the date time group that the photo was taken and then the GPS and then the GPS location. And if there are any other questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to me, at my email address, john dot bradshaw at hcss dot com. It is located in, in this in the slides in this presentation. We do have one more that we wanna talk about. Yeah. I don't think I can give this one over to you, Hunter. Yeah. So, because I like you guys all so much and I'm a generous salesperson or mainly because it was, ninety nine percent of John's idea to ask add it in, last night, we do have now a trial of HCSS plans for forty five days. So it's something to worth checking out and showing kind of how easy it is to use HCSS plans and get up and running on it, get a few licenses, try it out for crew, with the plan sets up. And then after a month or so, we if you guys end up liking it, you can start paying for it. And we also have the option of a low cost training. So in case you have questions on setting something up or wanna learn a bit more about the advanced features or if you just wanna make sure the field guys are comfortable using it, again, we have that training option, but do wanna mention the free plans trial. And so a good question, that I thought of as well. And, John, I'll leave this up to you. Do you want them contacting their salesperson, or do you want them reaching out to you or someone in plan specifically so you can route them the right documentation? The answer to that is I want them to reach out to their salespeople and have that, and have that and have that talk. So if you wanna go ahead and either give out your Okay. Give out your information or the I'll give out my information and then number or email for them. Okay. I'll give out my information, and then anyone in the webinar who, shoots me an email, I'll make sure you guide it to your correct salesperson. Unfortunately, I only foresee a few states. So let me go ahead. I'll send it in the chat, but so I could say it out loud. It is hunter dot kemph at h c s s dot com. So first name dot last name at h c s s dot com. I just shot it over to the chat. And then, Megan, I did see your, response there. I'd love to get with you individually or have someone reach out to you about that, plans and, safety possible integration. So, John, do we have do we have time to answer any last minute questions, or are we good? I think we're all queued up, actually. Yep. Okay. Alright. Well, hey. Truly, thank you all so much for thank you all so much for joining us. Thank you for your patience, earlier on as we had a, you know, we we we we just like make think making things exciting. Yeah. And, appreciate Mark for his feedback in the first one minute of the webinar where he said, Hunter, you're making me sick. Please stop rocking your chair. I will take note to that. I will probably make sure I'm either standing next time or I have the little, maybe just sitting on two by four so it doesn't happen. Yep. Getting the first webinar. So And and, Bucky, your, your suggestion about different types of issues, I'm gonna actually route that one over to, route that one over to Andrew and, let, let the let the heavy job team know that that would be a, that'd be a good thing to add. Alright. Again, appreciate everyone for coming. I hope this was beneficial, and have a great rest of the day.