Beyond Percent Complete: Turning Schedule, Design and Site Data into Progress You Can Defend

Heavy civil projects are built on precision, but progress reporting often still relies on estimates and gut feel. A superintendent walks the job, someone assigns a percentage complete, and a pay application goes out. When schedules slip or disputes emerge months later, proving exactly what was built—and when—can become difficult. The data that could provide the answer often sits disconnected across the P6 schedule, design models, survey data and drone imagery

The opportunity is to move from estimated progress to measured progress. By connecting field evidence with design objects and project schedules, teams can track quantities against actual scope, measure completion based on what has really been built, and forecast end dates using real production rates. The result is a more objective view of project performance, stronger confidence in reporting and claims backed by dated evidence from the jobsite.

Join Datumate and a select group of your peers to discuss operations, survey, project controls and digital construction leaders to explore how this changes the way heavy civil projects are managed. Executives will leave with practical insights into creating a trusted source of progress data, improving forecasting through real-world production rates, and building greater confidence and accountability around schedules, payments and project performance.

Datumate is a construction technology company built for infrastructure. Our platform, DatuBIM, turns drone and site capture into verified, decision-ready data for the teams delivering roads, bridges, rail, tunnels and other heavy civil work. By linking site reality to the schedule and the design, Datumate gives contractors and owner agencies one version of progress that everyone can trust, reducing uncertainty, avoiding rework and keeping projects moving. More than 125 organizations use Datumate today, across close to 9,000 sites and over 14,000 processed flights, including PennDOT, UDOT, Ferrovial, AECOM and Kiewit.