HCSS Plans: Revision control 2024.9.0

Experience streamlined collaboration with this user-friendly app designed specifically for heavy civil construction. With the ability to upload PDF plans and work in real time, regardless of location, your entire project team can stay on the same page. Features such as markups, call-outs, notes, photos/videos, and more make it easy to collaborate seamlessly.

Collaboration

Efficient teamwork is achieved by aligning your entire project team, from foremen to managers, estimators, executives, and owners. Management gains valuable insight into the bidding process, while foremen have instant access to project managers' notes and calculations. All team members can add and share layers, annotations, notes, photos, and videos. Meanwhile, subcontractors can collaborate with your team without any additional cost and the security of your sensitive information is safeguarded.

Smart revision control ensures that everyone is working off the latest set of plans and site instructions. This eliminates rework, delays, and potential mistakes. By syncing revisions, annotations, and photos between the office and field locations, everyone stays up to date on design changes immediately. Additionally, overlaying new and old versions allows for easy identification of modifications.

Accessing project documents has never been easier thanks to this app’s instant digital storage system. All project documents including permits, contracts, shop drawings, vendor agreements, manuals, and specs can be organized in one convenient location. With or without an internet connection, both the office and field locations can quickly access all necessary information. Plans sheets can also be directly pinned with RFIs, issues, dig permits, and submittals for quick reference.

Heavy Civil Focused

This app offers more than just collaboration features; it provides essential tools specifically tailored for heavy civil construction.

Effortless calculations are made possible with the app’s built-in heavy civil calculators. These save both time and money by accurately determining volume, tonnage, and trucking needs. No more guessing is required; true quantities can be reported instead. Additionally, both horizontal and vertical measurements are supported for profile views.

Unique real-time location services give you unrivaled capabilities on your construction sites. You can easily locate yourself on the plans sheet, even in green field areas, without the need for a survey crew. By walking the site and identifying any obstacles that may not be accounted for in the drawings, potential issues can be caught early on. Furthermore, photos taken on-site can be auto-pinned in their exact location to provide clear communication of issues or work progress.

To gain a comprehensive view of your project, the app offers sheet overlays. Related sheets can be stacked, allowing for the verification of potential conflicts before each stage of work. Sheets can also be stitched over Apple Maps to visualize plans in relation to existing structures, whether in road or satellite view.

Smart Integrations

HCSS Plans seamlessly integrates with the HCSS suite, enhancing efficiency and accuracy across your teams.

HeavyBid Estimating Software

• Takeoff integration: Import takeoff quantities from HCSS Plans into HeavyBid.
• Easy reference: Link biditems and activities to relevant sheets for quick reference.
• Better collaboration: Share estimators' notes and calculations with your Operations team after winning the bid.

HeavyJob Field Entry & Job Management Software

• Accurate quantities: Pull in sheet calculations for precise production quantities without double entry.
• Quick reviews: Relevant sheets are just one click away, making quantity checks during web time card reviews effortless.
• Issue alerts: Get notified when an issue is logged on a sheet, and elevate it to an RFI if needed.