Business Center - Heavy Construction Edition Modules

Business Center-Heavy Construction Edition (HCE) feautres a module based design allowing contractors to customize the software to suit their needs.

As part of the Connected Office solution, Business Center - HCE has powerful tools to help control data flow between the office and the field. You can easily combine and manage data from multiple sources to generate accurate, integrated results, and then share these results with the entire project team. Business Centerâ€"HCE can help you decrease costly mistakes and increase productivity in the office and on the construction job site. Below is a list of common tasks and procedures that are made easy with BC-HCE, and the modules needed to accomplish these tasks.

Field/Data Review

Supports most digital data imports and exports
Supports Trimble SCS900 Site Controller Software, Trimble GCS900 and Cat® AccuGrade Grade Control Systems, and Trimble PCS900 Paving Control System
Create road and rail corridor models
Create and process data
View data in plan, profile, cross-section, 3D and spreadsheet
Manipulate point cloud data quickly and easily
Select, create, edit and draft data
Generate reports and plots
Publish information

Modules Needed: Core Product

Data Prep

Import and clean up CAD data
Use CAD tools to trim, extend and offset lines
Elevate contours, pads, lines and points with automated, high productivity elevating tools
Create an earthworks model for grading
Use advanced surface modeling and editing tools for site projects
Import raster image files in many formats or Adobe PDF vector files
Rapidly extract line work data from Adobe PDF vector files

Modules Needed: Data Prep
Optional Modules: Image Manager, Surface Tools

Takeoff

Site Takeoff

Create a materials and site improvements library
Perform heads up digitizing from raster images or digitize from paper plans
View multiple images with edge matching functionality
Assign site improvements, topsoil stripping and replacement areas
Use drillhole data to build subsurface strata models and associated volumes
Account for overexcavation and create of Areas of Interest
Create takeoff reports that include all material volumes lengths and counts, and cost information
Balance site earthworks
Define haul zones, haul roads and hauling costs
Compute borrow and waste requirements
Assign haul and material costs for earthworks bidding
Compute mass haul for the site
Import raster image files in many formats or Adobe PDF vector files
Rapidly extract line work data from Adobe PDF vector files

Add-on modules needed: Takeoff, Takeoff Basic or Takeoff Intermediate
Optional modules: Data Prep, Site Mass Haul, Image Manager, Surface Tools, Road Takeoff Tools

Road Takeoff

Digitize cross-section drawings from a raster image or a vector PDF file
Convert cross-sections into a 3D model automatically
Store cross-section objects in association with an alignment object
Map original ground, finished design and multiple material layers (subgrades) to stored cross-sections distinguished by layer
Easily extract required surface from complex CAD cross-sections
Generate average end area earthwork reports
Import raster image files in many formats or Adobe PDF vector files
Rapidly extract line work data from Adobe PDF vector files
Perform comprehensive mass haul analysis
Find the best borrow and waste sites to use for the lowest cost
See graphical representations and geographic location of borrow pits, waste sites and haul roads
Place barriers to mass haul along the alignment and optimize to haul around barriers
Assign import or export locations with cost analysis and volumes
Define multiple haul ranges and balance haul at stations
Create mass haul diagrams with multiple charts to see mass haul and instantaneous cuts and fills in relation to the design profile
Enter multiple tunnels on a single alignment with multiple layers for each tunnel
Expand tunnel design for drilling and blasting
Build a tunnel model and export to SCS900
Create a tunnel surface model from point cloud data

Add-on modules needed: Road Takeoff Tools
Optional modules: Data Prep, Corridor Mass Haul, Image Manager, Surface Tools, Corridor Tunneling

Construction/Survey Tools

Construction

Data preparation and material quantities takeoff
Field Data, Data Prep and Takeoff capabilities
Manage and georeference aerial imagery for projects

Construction Plus Survey

Complete toolkit for survey and construction
Total station raw data, traverse/network adjustment
Digital level run processing and level loop closures
GNSS raw data post-processing and network adjustment
Coordinate geodedic systems, projections and datum

Add-on modules needed: Data Prep, Takeoff, Road Takeoff Tools, Image Manager, Surface Tools, Total Station, Total Station and GNSS, Site Mass Haul, Corridor Mass Haul, Corridor Tunneling