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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Languages Supported

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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HCSS Reviews (233)

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Verified User in Construction

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/14/2024

"Very Good Software Program"

4/5

What do you like best about HCSS?

There is so much that you can do with HCSS. There are so many screens and places to find infomation on your bid. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCSS?

The lease helpful is having to go to a bid summary and spread then having to go to bid pricing. Can all of this not be on the same page, or at least have it so you do not have to run spread. Can you get it spread automatically all the time? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Melina R.

Estimator

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/18/2025

"Easy to navigate."

5/5

What do you like best about HCSS?

It's easy to navigate. I think anyone can pick it up and use the software easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCSS?

I don't like that there's no undo button. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mike H.

Senior Estimator

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/4/2024

"Heavy Bid is Awesome"

5/5

What do you like best about HCSS?

Heavy Bid is intelligently laid out, and allows for a company wide process that allows new and old estimators to work together. I like the separate locations for each part of the bid creation process. Customer service is also second to none! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCSS?

I think the vendor managment and solicitation portion could use some work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Construction

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/15/2024

"Great bidding software"

5/5

What do you like best about HCSS?

HCSS is very user friendly, it has a lot of valuable tools to help you bid projects without mistakes and it's easy to update and make quick changes minutes before bids are due. HCSS is a tool all highway contracts must have to be efficient and manage project bidding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCSS?

There is not much I dislike about HCSS it's that good of a product, the only thing I can think of is the costs can be expensive to add all the other additional software available such as Heavy Job that integrates with Heavy Bid. That can get expensive the larger your organization is. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Paul S.

Esitmator

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/18/2025

"Hccs software"

5/5

What do you like best about HCSS?

Customer support is superior to other software packages Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCSS?

Nothing stands out. Excellent service to implement the package. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Construction

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/14/2024

"Greta job cost softawre"

4.5/5

What do you like best about HCSS?

HCSS does a great job wiht help and support for our users. They usually can answer the question on the intila call. If they cant they find the answer and follow up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCSS?

The pay per user fee structure is a challenge. We would like to use more of their priducts but it doenst make sense financially. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Maxime L.

Actionnaire

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/14/2024

"HCSS Heavybid works great"

4.5/5

What do you like best about HCSS?

Excellent service

Easy training and great annual convention

complete software to estimate easily and effeciently Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCSS?

Not local for me and not bilingual to French Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Brandon S.

Project manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/19/2025

"Great suite of products to make construction easy and seamless"

5/5

What do you like best about HCSS?

One stop shop for all stages of construction. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCSS?

Due to the numerous products it can be a steep learning curve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gustavo C.

Estimator

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/17/2025

"Real fun"

5/5

What do you like best about HCSS?

Techical support are always helpful and friendly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCSS?

Connection with other products to work with Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Construction

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/19/2025

"Estimator"

5/5

What do you like best about HCSS?

Learning and networking. Also classes where interesting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HCSS?

Food. I got sick with Tuesday tacos. Too greasy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Daniel Chee of HCSS

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I am so sorry that the tacos were too greasy for you! I am really glad that you were able to find the networking opportunities at our Annual Users Group Meeting, surrounded by 2000 other top-tier contractors. You are always welcome, please come back next year and let us know how we can make it even better for you.

Thank you,

Daniel