A new integration between B2W Track and Trimble Siteworks software systems automates progress quantity tracking for earthwork and civil contractors, according to Trimble.
The field-to-office connection enhances contractors’ ability to compare actual material production quantities achieved to planned quantities. Trimble Siteworks software produces precise 3D data sets assessing production quantities achieved, which can now be requested from and transferred to the B2W Track performance tracking application.
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“Civil contractors must continuously evaluate how well projects are progressing against budgets, timelines, and productivity goals,” said John Sheedy, director of product management, in a statement. “Relying on phone calls, forms, emails, and other disconnected communications tools to report on production quantities limits timeliness and accuracy of that reporting. This new software integration brings automation to the process to increase efficiency, eliminate errors, and provide an auditable progress trail for billable milestones.”
The new Trimble progress-to-plan reporting workflow allows project managers to create requests for quantity measurements—such as the amount of material added, moved, or removed at a site—within the B2W Track performance tracking application. Those requests are relayed automatically to personnel in the field who use Siteworks software to fulfill the request at survey-grade accuracy and send the data back to B2W Track via Wi-Fi or cellular connections.
B2W Track users can then review and validate the data and reconcile it with information from other sources such as field logs. Production quantity data can also be transferred from B2W Track to the Trimble Viewpoint Vista, Viewpoint Spectrum accounting systems, or to third-party construction accounting systems.
