HCSS Reviews & Product Details

Heavy Construction Systems Specialists (HCSS) is the leading provider of construction management software designed to connect the office to the field across the lifecycle of heavy civil and infrastructure projects. Founded in 1986, HCSS has established itself as the industry leader by offering a comprehensive suite of tools to enhance productivity, streamline communication, and improve project outcomes. HCSS platforms cover every aspect of heavy civil and infrastructure projects, from preconstruction to project closeout. Solutions offered include estimating, job costing, project management, safety, and fleet management. By centralizing project data, HCSS ensures all stakeholders have real-time access to critical information, enabling more informed decision-making and reducing the risk of errors and rework.

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English, French, Spanish

Product Description

HCSS is a time entry system designed for foremen that allows you to see daily job costs against the estimate, manage foremen and have them plan ahead, with the ability to work offline or online from any device.

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Time to Implement

3 months

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HCSS Demo - Easily Manage All Your Job Data on One S with HCSS HeavyJob

Know if you are making or losing money on that job. Get extensive, but easy-to-read reports that cover every aspect of your jobs to know why you are up or down. Easily export budgeted information and materials lists from HeavyBid to HeavyJob to track true productions and received and installed ma...

HCSS Demo - Rapidly Build Accurate Estimates in HeavyBid

Activities and bid items can be built on the fly, directly imported from DOT websites, copied from previous estimates, or pulled from a list of standardized activities of work. Use bid items and activities from HeavyBid to automatically generate cost codes in HeavyJob.

Employees can quickly log their own hours for faster review by foremen and review what hours have been recorded for them via HeavyJob time cards.

HCSS Demo - Safety Management Software with HCSS Safety

HCSS Safety can help your company to create and maintain the sort of safety culture that results in fewer incidents, a lower EMR, and the resulting thousands of dollars in savings and avoided losses. With HeavyJob and HCSS Safety working together in the same app, you get better field visibility t...

HCSS Demo - A Digital Plans Management System to Eliminate Rework

Guarantee everyone is working from the same sheet and experience pinpoint accuracy like never before by linking location-specific RFIs to help stop losing on wrong production rates and incorrect quantities. With the ability to create an issue directly from a plan sheet within HCSS Plans, users ca...

HCSS Demo - Get a Full View of Your Fleet While Going Paperless

Proactively manage your most expensive asset to keep your fleet running at peak efficiency. Through Equipment360, HCSS Telematics, and FuelerPlus, our equipment management software brings technology not only into the shop, but also into the field, on the road, and in the fleets itself to ensure y...

HeavyBid puts contractors ahead of the competition with a standardized estimating process built to bid faster and more accurately to win more jobs at the right margins.

HeavyJob ensures projects stay on budget with real-time labor productivity, materials cost and equipment utilization analysis, while tracking T&M billing to ensure accurate payments.

HCSS breaks the mold when it comes to software support and offers one of the best support systems in the country.

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Bid Admin, Solicitation Mngr, HCSS Guru

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/19/2025

"Long time user"

5/5

What do you like best about HCSS?

The best thing has to be their support. 24-7 365 days a year. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCSS?

All the old employees are gone! It's nice to see fresh faces though. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Joanna L.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/12/2023

"HCSS PROVIDES AN AMAZING ORGANIZATION WHERE WE CAN EASILY ACCESS PLATFORMS AND PORTALS FOR OUR USE."

4/5

What do you like best about HCSS?

THE SIMPLICITY THAT IT ALLOWS ME TO DO DAILY TASKS LIKE CREATE TIMECARDS AND UPLOAD PLANS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCSS?

SOMETIMES IT TENDS TO LAG AND NEEDS REFRSHING. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Construction

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/21/2024

"HCSS software is great"

5/5

What do you like best about HCSS?

Heavyjob and Heavybid are critical parts to the success of our company. The customer support is amazing and far superior to any customer support I have ever dealt with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCSS?

Not exactly a dislike, but the systems are so powerful and extensive that I don't feel I can utilitze all the components that are available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kelvin C.

Senior Estimator

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/25/2025

"HCSS is for construction"

5/5

What do you like best about HCSS?

Customization to your company’s level of service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCSS?

The initial cost of the product. The need for total integration with accounting and the field forces acceptance of automation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

David C.

Safety & Technology Director

Construction

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/14/2024

"The Dispatcher"

4/5

What do you like best about HCSS?

HCSS has always had a strong product offering for the construction industry, especially heavy civil. We have been using their Dispatcher software every day for 4 or 5 years now to manage and track a fleet of over 60 trucks and 300 pieces of equipment. Implementation of the program was very straightforward and simple, especially with their support team. Of all the software vendors we use, HCSS support has been among the best with prompt response and quick answers to our questions. The software has been easy to use and has features and functionality that we have yet to take advantage of. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCSS?

Our only complaint about HCSS is an aesthetic one. The interface has a look and feel that seems a bit dated. It is nothing that affects the performance, just looks like it needs a graphics refresh. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HCSS solving and how is that benefiting you?

The Dispatcher helps us keep track of over 300 pieces of equipment and 100 employees across 30 jobsites on a daily basis. As a heavy civil construction company, there is frequent change between jobsites with regard to equipment and tools. Dispatcher makes tracking this information very easy for our scheduling manager. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Zac S.

Estimator/Project Manager

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/11/2023

"HCSS makes us more productive in the office"

5/5

What do you like best about HCSS?

HCSS has standardized our bidding process while allowing us to put together bids quicker and more accurately. Our number of bids per year has gone up tremendously after implementing heavybid. After Jobs are awarded we can track our projects more accurately with heavy job for job costing and the process is easy and accurate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCSS?

At times the heavyjob app can be glitchy and require uninstalling/re-installing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HCSS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Standardizing our bidding process, now we have a standard way that a bid is constructed using heavy bid. The codebooks makes for quick and easy ways of putting a bid together. The quote system also make easy work of selecting suppliers and vendor and makes those changes directly in the bid so it makes subcontractor/supplier selection quick, easy, and accurate.

Heavyjob helps our job tracking and gets us accurate costs to complete each line item of the bid. Costing can be the most problematic thing that we deal with and by using the myfield app along with heavy job it makes costing easy and accurate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Matt G.

Controller

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/14/2024

"Great product (if you put in the work)"

4/5

What do you like best about HCSS?

My company has been using HeavyBid for years and have no complaints. Customer service is excellent. In the past year, we have started using HeavyJob as well. There is a lot of functionality, so it takes a lot of trial-and-error to set it up the way you want. We've been using it for nearly a year and I feel like we're about 98% there. The integration with our ERP is pretty tight, but is what's taking us so long. We may use Vista differently than most, because the canned integration had to be tweaked quite a few times. The products themselves are very user-friendly. Several employees use both products daily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCSS?

The only cons I can think of are the price (along with annual 5% increases), and the fact that they prioritize development of their iOS app above the Android version. As a Samsung shop, we cannot use Production Planner unless we replace our entire fleet of tablets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nishith G.

Sales Manager

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/16/2023

"Review Equipment360"

4.5/5

What do you like best about HCSS?

Its simple interface helps even new user to get work done Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCSS?

It is costly as compared to peers . Competitive pricing can help Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sabrina L.

HR Payroll Manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/22/2024

"UGM"

5/5

What do you like best about HCSS?

HCSS has many tools that all integrate together! It makes things so nice that they communicate well. The support is out of this world too! Always answer and will dig in and find the fix! We use ebid, field, safety and e360 frequently! every day! It is user friendly. Implementing with them has been a breeze. They help and troubleshoot until it's ready. Always friendly and greet you with a smile. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCSS?

Not sure there is a downside. It seems costly at times, but it is well worth it! They take the guessing out.

The idea webpage...no one knows to vote for your suggestion...while this is a firm and strong idea, it definitely needs work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Daniel S.

Project Manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/14/2024

"Great integration, from bidding, project management, to safety."

4.5/5

What do you like best about HCSS?

HCSS greatly reduces the amount of rework involved with estimating and running projects. It is a great tool for establishing data bases with your historic bid, productivity, and cost data. Customer service has always been top notch, although there may be a few hiccups or unavailable features as they are developing a new product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCSS?

The cost is not insignificant, however we feel it is certainly worth it. There may be a barrier to entry to some smaller construction operations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.