See How HCSS Plans Can Improve Your Efficiency and Communication in the Field
Empower your foremen to perform calculations in the field with construction planning software.
Perform Takeoffs with Ease
Perform digital takeoffs on drawings and send quantities directly to the field for easy communication. Clouds, links to callouts, and polygons draw crews’ attention to important details or changes.Watch the Video (0:43)
Attach Photos to Plans
Add annotated photos, audio clips, or even videos to plans and revisions to encourage collaboration.Watch the Video (0:33)
Upload Plans, Drawings, Specifications, Safety Documents, Project Documents, and Manuals
Upload and publish any set of PDF plans to give quick, easy access to the most up-to-date information and eliminate the need to lug around tons of paperwork.Watch the Video (0:26)
Control Versions and Revisions
Upload new sheets in the office and make them instantly available to field supervisors. Overlay versions, and highlight changes quickly for easy revision comparison.Watch the Video (0:34)
Perform Quick Calculations
Perform quick calculations in the field to see how long work will take and how much material is needed, and report accurate quantities back to the office.Watch the Video (0:42)
Produce As-Builts
Compile all plans along the life of the job to quickly and easily create accurate as-builts, and send them directly to stakeholders.Watch the Video (0:28)
Add Notes to Sheets
Add descriptive notes to revisions, calculations, and annotations to help your crews build correctly the first time.Watch the Video (0:27)
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Construction
Utilities | Oil & Gas
Public Sector
Commercial & Industrial
How HCSS Plans Fits Into the HCSS Suite
Your jobs are constantly changing, and you need to keep the entire company up to date. We offer a full suite of products for heavy civil disciplines like earthwork, concrete, paving, and more that can help you through every stage of a project, from bid to completion. Send your calculations from HCSS Plans to the HeavyJob Time Card to ensure your production reporting is accurate.
YOUR BUSINESS
Estimating & Bidding
HeavyBid
- Unit price & lump sum bids
- Rapid estimate creation from:
- Libraries
- Past estimates
- Calculation routines
- Assemblies
- DOT imports
- RSMeans data (option)
- Richardson data (option)
- Analysis tools
- Rapid change tools
- Comparisons to estimate and actual production history (w HeavyJob)
- Invitation to bid
- Quote management
- Cost spreading routines
- Multiple pricing options
- Multiple bid proposal formats
- Electronic bid submittals
- Budget export to accounting
- Budget export to HeavyJob
- RFIs (2018)
HCSS Plans
- Quantity takeoff
- Annotation capabilities
- Document control
- Version control
Field Management
HeavyJob
- Simple & easy interface
- Diaries
- Time cards
- Progress quantities
- Photos
- Materials & subs
- Production analysis
- Real-time cost feedback
- Production planner
- Needs requests
- Skills & certifications
HCSS Plans
- Quantity takeoff
- Annotation capabilities
- Easy attachment to submittals, etc.
- Instant field to office communication
- Responsibility assignments
- Record “As-Built”
- Document control
- Version control
HCSS Safety
- Meetings
- Inspections
- Observations
- Near misses
- Incidents
- JHAs
- Skills & certifications
HCSS Employee App
- Simple interface
- Clock in/out
- Payroll hour verification
- Equipment inspections
- Safety observations
- Custom items such as “not injured”
- Multi-employee time clock kiosk
- Upcoming schedules (w/ Dispatcher)
- Cost code hours (2018)
HCSS Trucking
- Easy smartphone truck identification
- Easy recording of loads/dumps
- Quantity capture
- Foremen/operators as ticket takers
- Unattended site logging
- Internal & external trucks
Project Management & Job Costing
HeavyJob
- Time card approvals
- Production reports
- Change orders
- T&M billing
- Forecasting
- Pay estimates
- Job cost reports
- Payroll hour reports
- Accounting TrueUp (w/ DIS)
- RFIs (2018)
- Submittals (2018)
- Document tracking (2018)
- HCSS Plans integration
HCSS Plans
- Quantity takeoff
- Annotation capabilities
- Document control
- Version control
HCSS Safety
- Inspections, Near Misses, Incidents
- Free safety observations for all employees
- Leading indicator analysis from field data
- Closed-loop follow-up process for issues
- 1,000 standard meetings, inspections, JSAs
- Meetings, inspections, & JSAs are customizable
- Critical meeting topics can be pushed to field
- OSHA reporting
- Skills and certifications
- Quality reports (2018)
Dispatching & Scheduling
HCSS Dispatcher
- Electronic “Magnet Board” Scheduling of people, equipment, materials, trucks, inventory, and small tools
- Snapshot of past, present & future
- True up locations vs HeavyJob timecards
- Driver move assignments
- Rentals
- Management of future “needs”
- “Needs” import from HeavyBid
- Foremen “needs” from HeavyJob
- Crew export to HeavyJob
- Dispatching report to HeavyJob
- Show up instructions to employees
Safety, Quality, & Skills
HCSS Safety
- Inspections, near misses, incidents
- Free safety observations for all employees
- Leading Indicator analysis from field data
- Closed-loop follow up process for issues
- 1,000 standard meetings, inspections, JSAs
- Meetings, inspections, & JSAs are customizable
- Critical meeting topics can be pushed to the field
- OSHA reporting
- Skills and certifications
- Quality reports starting in 2018
Inspections
HCSS Inspections
- Equipment Inspections
- Field Equipment Inspection Data
- Drive Vehicle Inspection Reports
- Pre and post-trip inspections
- Customized inspections
Forms
HCSS Forms
- Free with HeavyJob or Safety
- Customizable mobile forms
- PDF fillable forms
- Autofill from Time Cards (w HeavyJob)
Fleet Management
Equipment Maintenance
- Preventive maintenance
- Work orders
- Work order Assignment/Scheduling
- Mobile mechanic app
- Equipment repair history
- Equipment inspections
- Field equipment inspection data
- Field maintenance requests
- Automated meter readings (w/ GPS)
- Telematics data reporting (w/ GPS)
- Warranty tracking
- Inventory/parts management
- Utilization reporting
- Idle time reporting
- Replace or repair dashboard
Fuel Tracking
- Mobile phone app
- Fuel & fluid tracking
- For fuel truck drivers, foremen, lowboy drivers, etc.
- Transactions to/from trucks/tanks
- Third-party fuel card interfaces
- Fuel charged to equipment/jobs
- Fuel analysis report
Telematics/GPS
- Mixed fleet data in one location
- HCSS GPS hardware
- OEM GPS data integration
- Aggregated HCSS + OEM GPS data
- Interface to other HCSS Software
- Location, meter, idle time, fuel level, fault codes
- Stolen equipment alerts
- Geofence entry/exit logs
- Mobile geofence reporting
- Cycle time reporting
- Equipment utilization reporting
- Customized alerts:Speeding, hard braking, etc.
Trucking
- Automation of truck tickets
- Simple & accurate verification of loads
- Quantity capture
- Fewer payment conflicts & discrepancies
- Possible elimination of ticket takers
- Unattended site logging
- Internal & external trucks
- Integration with HeavyJob
- Broker portal with real-time reporting
- More (2018)
DOT & Other Interfaces
D.O.T. & Other Interfaces
- Nearly all state DOTs
- Download of biditems
- Download of avg. bid prices
- Upload of bid prices
- Some cities & counties
- Private services such as Amtek
- Spreadsheets
Payroll & Accounting Interfaces
Payroll & Accounting Interfaces
- Budget export from HeavyBid
- Payitem export from HeavyBid
- Vendors and subs from HeavyBid
- JD Edwards (custom)
- Labor & equipment hours from HeavyJob
- Quantities from HeavyJob
- Jobs, equipment, employees & cost codes to HeavyJob
Accounting Systems
- Viewpoint family
- Dexter & Chaney
- Sage family
- JD Edwards (custom)
- CMIC (custom)
- Foundation
- Explorer family
- Quickbooks
- PeachTree
- Most Others
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