One map from groundbreaking to closeout
General contractors and superintendents live between the design set and the dirt, reconciling CAD plans, agency permits, daily photos, and field markups that never line up. Smart Site Plan puts the civil drawings, the site boundary, and every geotagged photo and form on one map in the browser, so the trailer and the field see the same picture without another truck roll.
Real Construction work over Hendersonville, NC, captured in the product
The old way
Plans live in a rolled-up paper set or a stack of PDFs in the truck, redlines get scribbled on a print and lost, and as-builts are reconstructed from memory weeks after the trench is backfilled. Every question means a call to the office or a drive back to the trailer to find the right sheet.
With Smart Site Plan
Take the plans to the field and the field back to the office
The data, already on the map
Drawn from 20 million open datasets, one click each. No agency portal hunting, no format wrangling.
Workflows
How Construction work gets done
End to end, in the browser, on one map.
Plan-to-field mobilization
- 1. Import
Load the civil DXF, grading plan, and survey control, reprojecting from State Plane to the project frame on import.
- 2. Open Data
Add the parcel boundary, FEMA flood zone, and recent aerial under the design so the set sits on real ground.
- 3. Draw
Mark the laydown yard, haul routes, and silt-fence line on the site with live area readouts.
- 4. Share
Send the field crew a live share link so every phone opens the same plan in a browser.
Daily field documentation
- 1. GPS
Walk the site and log the as-installed line of the storm run or the curb tie-in from a phone or tablet.
- 2. Photos
Pin inspection and pre-backfill photos to the exact coordinate of each utility crossing.
- 3. Forms
Fill the daily inspection and quantity form offline in the trench and submit it when signal returns.
- 4. Share
Send the PM and engineer a view-only link to the logged deviation so they can weigh in without a site visit.
As-built reconciliation and handoff
- 1. Measure
Check the installed offset and grade against the design line where the field deviated.
- 2. Style
Color the as-built layer against the design centerlines so every change reads at a glance.
- 3. Export
Export the reconciled markup and field layers as DXF for the record drawings on Pro, with an HD PDF site exhibit for the owner.
What you can do
Load the civil set onto the real site
Import the site-civil DXF, the survey control, and the grading plan straight into the map, reprojected from State Plane or UTM to a common frame so the linework lands on the parcel instead of floating in the ocean. The catch: the file has to carry a known CRS or EPSG code to land on its own, a DXF saved in assumed or local job coordinates cannot auto-reproject and has to be placed by hand.
Mark up what the field finds
Draw the actual trench run, the relocated catch basin, or the daylight line of a slope right on the plan with live length and area readouts, and measure clearances to the easement or property line without a tape. The markup is on the same map as the design, so the deviation is obvious to the PM the second they open it.
Document every pour, lift, and burial
Pin geotagged photos to the exact coordinate where rebar was inspected or a utility was exposed before backfill, so the photo log is a map you can click, not a folder of filenames. Daily field forms capture the inspection, the quantity, or the punch item and submit on reconnect when the signal comes back.
Build the as-built as you go
Capture installed line and grade with phone GPS as crews work, layer it against the design centerlines, and export the reconciled set for the record drawings rather than rebuilding them from memory at closeout. The as-built grows daily rather than becoming a panic at substantial completion.
The capabilities Construction teams lean on
CAD and survey import
The civil DXF, survey shapefile, and grading data load and reproject in one step, so the design set lands on the real site with nothing retraced.
Phone-first field capture
GPS tracks, geotagged photos, and offline forms turn every superintendent's phone into the as-built and the daily report, even with no signal in the hole.
Trailer and field on one map
A live share link puts the field and the office on the same map, so nobody calls the trailer to find the right sheet.
Plans over real ground
Design linework, the parcel boundary, contours, and aerial imagery stack on a single map so deviations from plan are visible, not buried in a PDF.
In practice
A relocated storm line on a Denver pad, documented before backfill
On a commercial pad in Adams County, Colorado, a site superintendent hits rock and shifts the storm run six feet off the design line. On the tablet, the new alignment is logged with GPS over the civil DXF, pre-backfill photos are pinned at each pipe joint, and the daily inspection form is filled out, all offline in the trench. By the time the crew is back at the trailer, the new alignment and the photos are on the project engineer's map, and the change is in the as-built before the excavator moves on.
What changes
- As-builts are captured daily in the field, not reconstructed at closeout
- One live map replaces the truck full of paper sets and PDF folders
- Every pre-backfill and inspection photo is pinned to where it was taken
- Field deviations reach the PM and engineer the same day, not on a site visit
- The civil set lands on the real site without a manual reprojection scramble
Construction, answered
Yes. Import the site-civil DXF, the survey shapefile, and the grading data directly, and the platform reprojects from State Plane, UTM, or any EPSG code to a common frame on import, so the linework lands on the real parcel instead of being retraced by hand. One field note: the file must carry a real CRS for that to happen automatically, a DXF in assumed or local coordinates lands without georeference and has to be positioned by hand.
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