From school sites to the runway expansion at Los Angeles International Airport, we know the details of data. We comb through the plans, finding and fixing problems electronically before they become dirt mistakes.

Details: No need to sweat the details.

When the initial bugs are fixed, plan changes are usually true adjustments to the final look of the site, not the repair of overlooked design issues. It is important to remember that the changes to a job that seem to occur every day, have for the most part been taken care of by careful data preparation in the first place. With this quality of data in your hands, confidence levels go up, and productivity increases.

At this point we have built, reviewed, and edited your jobsite an average of FOUR times! What does that mean to our customer? We moved the dirt 4 times on the screen, and did not waste your money on equipment, fuel, labor and overhead.

As far as we know water rolls downhill all over the world, if the plans don’t reflect that, we work with the engineers and get it right.

If we are doing wet utilities, we go through the same process of checking and proposing fixes, just like we do for sites.

A open question to our customers do you seem to be getting a new revised set of plans before the job even starts? What happened was that we found some things that needed attention, proposed fixes to the engineer, even sending them new points files! The changes are incorporated and you get new paper that magically matches the 3D model built by TOPS, just one of the things we get paid for. Never ask a question unless you know the answer.

With the 3D model done to plan, we note areas of concern and report them to the engineer with proposed fixes.

The project is managed by one of our staff engineers, and the data process begins making notes and adjusting the obvious errors that got missed in plan review, such as 46 feet being typed as 64 feet.

With newer customers, we usually ask a few questions and make sure the contractor gets everything they may need you may not know what you need from us in the beginning.

A work order is filled out with the scope of work our customer is responsible for, as well as any special requirements needed on the job.The paper is shipped to us and we start work. If they have not been in contact with the engineer, we will call on their behalf and acquire the electronic files.

The contractor calls us and lets us know they have a job coming out to us.

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