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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

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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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Jeff M.

Manager Health and Safety

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/19/2025

"Excellent software for wholistic management"

5/5

What do you like best about HCSS?

Ease of use and support from HCSS staff as well as their desire to meet our needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCSS?

From a safety perspective it is a little limited when trying to capture some important information I.e. employees time on shift/week. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ray Z.

President

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/14/2023

"It's Their Dedication to Their Customers That Makes the Difference"

5/5

What do you like best about HCSS?

HCSS was founded on the idea that the customer is king. It is ingrained throughout the organization. Their products are developed and sold for the purpose of making the work done to get and manage work in the civil construction easier, more efficient and more accurate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCSS?

The flagship product, HeavyBid is vast. To know every feature and function in HeavyBid requires a great deal of time and effort. However, an estimator does not need to everything in HeavyBid to estimate effectively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shelly L.

Payroll / Accounting

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/4/2024

"HCSS is user friendly"

5/5

What do you like best about HCSS?

HCSS is very user friendly and easy to utilize for our company's needs. You do not need to be a technical wiz to use the program. It has one of the best support teams ever!! Whenever you call for support, you are almost always guaranteed to speak to a live person! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCSS?

The only downside is it has some problems with transferring data (payroll files) to our accounting program (QuickBooks). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Leif C.

Chief Information Officer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/18/2025

"Outstanding technology that helps our best grow"

5/5

What do you like best about HCSS?

Integration Across Products – HeavyJob, HeavyBid, and Equipment360 work together smoothly, reducing data entry and improving efficiency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCSS?

Complex Implementation – Setting up and fully integrating HeavyJob, HeavyBid, and Equipment360 can take time and effort, especially if you’re connecting them with other systems like Workday or Azure Data Lake. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Construction

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/17/2025

"Streamlining processes"

3.5/5

What do you like best about HCSS?

I like the integration between bidding and operations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCSS?

Sometimes the updates make more work for me like some of the detail reports changed and now it requires more steps from me to produce the same results. For other companies the changes might be good, but when you have been doing it one way for so long and there's no easy way to continue, it can be frustrating. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MICK S.

Estimator

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/14/2024

"HCSS = Success"

5/5

What do you like best about HCSS?

HCSS allows us to put together acurrate bids in a timley manner. The customer service has always been exceptional. The numerous features integrated with the software really serve as a check and balance to make sure your bid is complete. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCSS?

Adapting HeavyBid to your specific needs takes quite a bit of time. Although, it's neccessary for ease of use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jill W.

Senior Estimator

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/14/2024

"HCSS Products improve Productivity"

5/5

What do you like best about HCSS?

I am able to keep up with many projects from Bidding to Construction to Analysis. I utilize HeavyBid for all our pricing projects - estimates, invoicing, change orders, budgets. We utilize the conform process to move these projects to HeavyJob so the field can record progress and time directly to the job and cost code. We utilize true-up to HeavyJob from our Accounting system for analysis. We utilize Equipment 360 for equipment records. We utilize Safety for our safety meetings and records. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCSS?

Honestly I would only like to see a financial system inclusion that would allow for more realtime connection to actual costs through invoicing/payroll. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bobby S.

Estimator

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/11/2023

"Well-Structured bidding and project management software!"

5/5

What do you like best about HCSS?

The support staff is timely and punctunable.

The product serves our needs in the heavy highway market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCSS?

The updates/improvements do take some time to get put into the next versions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Justin O.

Safety Profession

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/20/2024

"Improvements to Daily Safety Inspection Signature & Cc transmission forms"

4/5

What do you like best about HCSS?

The formating of the Daily inspection reports can be used as a daily checklist. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCSS?

A number of times after completing a daily inspection report, as I was either completing signing the completed inspection form or inputting the inspection report distribution list the reports were lost and I had to regenerate new reports.

I have occasional finish a daily inspection report, siigned it and emailed with distribution list and later found out its was not reported becuase photos the photo memories were too large. I then had to recreate the file and attached photos with lower file memories. I now reformat my photos with lower resolution and file memory. This is still frustrating. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.