Forward for civil + site contractors

What civil sites actually look like

Vertical commercial projects fit on a half-acre. Civil sites span 5-500 acres. The walk back to the dispatch truck for a paper drawing is 20 minutes round-trip. The radio to the PM gets answered when the PM is between phone calls.

Civil PMs we’ve worked with describe the same pattern: 80-100 inbound radio + text questions per day, mostly “where’s the latest…” and “is the survey crew done with…”. The PM is a forwarding service for spec data and survey results that already exist in the project record.

What Forward does for civil

• Plan pulls. send me C-301 returns the current grading plan revision with the latest RTK-corrected survey points.
• Survey result lookup. where’s the BM for area 4 returns the benchmark coordinates + elevation from the project survey file.
• Daily logs by text. Foreman texts crew count + production numbers + weather + delays as he’d say them on radio. Forward parses into the daily-log shape your project tracks (Procore, HCSS HeavyJob, or spreadsheet fallback).
• Inspection coordination. request inspection: density test L5 area 2 tomorrow 8am drafts the inspection request, routes to PM, posts to the project’s inspection log.
• Specification text on demand. compaction spec for the subgrade returns 31 23 16 with the relevant compaction percentages and lift thickness requirements, cited.
• Earthwork takeoff math. cubic yards in a 200x300 area cut 18 inches average returns the cut volume in CY.

The radio-to-text transition

Civil crews live on two-way radio for safety reasons (a CAT 336 operator can’t look at a phone). Forward isn’t trying to replace radio — it’s replacing the forwarded-radio-to-PM-back-to-radio chain.

Pattern: operator radios the foreman “hey is grade plan revised on the south slope”. Instead of the foreman radioing the PM, the foreman texts Forward, gets the answer in 4 seconds, radios back to the operator. The PM never enters the loop.

Integration with civil-specific tools

Forward reads from:

• Procore — if the GC uses it
• Autodesk Construction Cloud / BIM 360 Civil — ACC Civil projects expose the same Sheets / RFIs / Submittals APIs Forward already reads
• HCSS HeavyJob — daily-log integration on the roadmap for Q2 (currently parsed via uploaded spreadsheet)
• Project file shares — OneDrive, SharePoint, Dropbox folders where civil teams typically keep survey files + grading plans

Pricing for civil + site contractors

Forward’s pricing is the same per-PM-seat model for commercial vertical and civil. Per-project numbers don’t count separately — a civil contractor running 12 concurrent road projects pays the same as a vertical GC running 12 concurrent buildings.

The ROI on civil is typically higher than on vertical commercial: the walk-to-truck cost is bigger, the PM-as-forwarding-service load is heavier, and the daily-log discipline tends to be weaker. Most civil teams report 10-20 hours/week recovered.

Try it now

Text +1 (682) 300-6750 with daily log for 4/22/2026 to see the daily-log format Forward returns. Or send me a-301 for a sample sheet pull (the demo project is vertical commercial; civil drawings come back the same shape).