Trimble combines B2W Track and Siteworks software to enhance connectivity for civil contractors

Trimble's new integration of its B2W Track and Trimble Siteworks software systems will automate and enhance progress quantity tracking for earthwork and civil contractors. The field-to-office connection will allow contractors to compare actual material production quantities achieved to planned quantities accurately.

The continuous assessment of field progress can be critical for civil contractors, which will enable them to make timely operational adjustments to protect profitability and to bill for accurate payments as work is completed.

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.

Construction solutions for a connected job site 

Trimble Siteworks software provides construction surveying, machine guidance, and site management capabilities. For production quantity tracking, devices enabled with Siteworks software technology precisely measure distances, angles, and elevations on job sites and process the resulting 3D data sets to assess production quantities in terms of linear distances, areas, and volumes.

B2W Track is a comprehensive Trimble performance tracking application for civil construction. Through customized electronic daily logs and field-centric reporting, the software streamlines the collection and analysis of data on productivity, labour, materials, and equipment utilization.

"Civil contractors must continuously evaluate how well projects are progressing against budgets, timelines, and productivity goals," said John Sheedy, director of product management at Trimble. "Relying on phone calls, forms, emails, and other disconnected communications tools to report on production quantities limits the 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."

"This new integration advances the Trimble Construction One vision of connected workflows and data," said Steve DiBenedetto, product manager at Trimble. "The intuitive process removes friction, delays, and risk for errors and makes essential progress-to-plan data available with the push of a few buttons. By building on and linking existing B2W Track and Siteworks software capabilities, we've made it easy for new and existing users to automate this important reporting process at no additional cost."

Availability

The integration between Trimble Siteworks software and B2W Track is available now in North America at no additional cost to contractors that have licenses for both software systems.