Utility and civil construction has been running on disconnected tools for too long. Here’s what we’ve learned after deploying on over 5,000 projects across North America and Europe.
Somewhere right now, a project manager is spending Sunday night reconciling quantities that should have closed on Friday.
A crew foreman is texting photos to the office from his personal phone because there’s no better system. A project director is approving a progress claim on work he can’t independently verify. And on an active urban corridor somewhere, a crew is about to dig next to a buried gas line they can only see on a paper sketch that may be years out of date.
This isn’t a technology problem. These teams have technology. Most are running between 5 and 20 different tools — GPS units, scanning apps, sheet viewers, spreadsheets, daily report software. They barely connect. When they don’t, data gets duplicated, lost, or buried in email threads and WhatsApp chains nobody can search six months later.
It gets more complicated when you factor in how many people are on a single project. Multiple crews. Subcontractors. Inspectors. Owners. Each with their own systems, their own versions, their own interpretation of what’s in the ground. The more parties involved, the wider the gap between what happened on site and what ends up in the record.
This is the reality of utility and civil construction in 2026. And it’s the reality we built vSite to fix.
Today, we’re marking a milestone: over 5,000 projects deployed on vSite across North America and Europe. Water main replacements in dense urban corridors. Fiber rollouts alongside live infrastructure. Multi-phase municipal capital programs. Greenfield utility installations. 5,000+ projects where crews and office teams ran on one platform instead of juggling five.
We didn’t build vSite for construction broadly. We built it for the contractor whose crews are digging next to buried infrastructure every day — whether that’s a single urban corridor or a multi-year capital program spanning an entire region. For the public works director approving progress claims without being able to verify what’s in the ground. For the project manager who should not be doing paperwork at 9pm. Utility and civil construction is its own discipline. It demands its own tools.
Before construction begins
Most costly problems on utility projects are visible before mobilization — if you know where to look.
With vSite, project teams walk sites with georeferenced design drawings overlaid on actual ground conditions. They capture utility locates, integrate GPR data, and run clash detection before a price is committed. They can see where a gas line runs through a proposed excavation zone before the project starts — before a single dollar is at risk.
This is what damage prevention actually looks like in practice. Not a button. A combination of data, visualization, and context that reduces the likelihood of a strike before the first cut is made. A single strike costs anywhere from $10,000 to $70,000 in repairs, downtime, and schedule delay. It stops the crew, triggers investigations, and can wipe out the margin on an entire project. Prevention starts in planning, not in the trench.
During construction
Centimeter-accurate AR shows crews exactly where buried infrastructure sits in relation to proposed work — before and during excavation. When a new drawing revision arrives, vSite compares it to the previous version automatically and highlights only what changed. No back and forth. No version confusion. The right information reaches the right person before it becomes a problem in the field.
Every photo captured in the field is oriented — location, angle, and direction preserved. Every 3D scan of a trench or test pit processes on-device and appears in the digital twin within seconds. Redlines captured in real time become as-builts automatically. Quantities flow from field measurement to cost code to daily ledger in a single step.
The daily report generates from what the crew already did. Not from what someone remembered to write down later.
“Before vSite, documenting a single day of work took hours across several roles. Now, it takes less than 30 minutes.Producing documentation for invoicing went from two weeks to two days. The platform didn’t just save us time; it changed how fast we could turn field work into revenue.”
Dirk Bakker, Project Data Specialist, Van Gelder, Netherlands
After the work is done
Every scan, photo, redline, and data point flows into vSite’s timeline — a visual project memory organized by date, location, and collection. When a dispute surfaces six months after closeout, the evidence already exists. Timestamped. GPS-accurate. Defensible in front of an owner, a regulator, or a lawyer.
AI-driven analysis compares proposed designs to as-built conditions. Trench profiles are flagged against specification. Surface discrepancies are identified automatically. When handover comes, data flows directly into Autodesk, Bentley, Esri, and other platforms owners and engineers are already running.
Closeout stops being a reconstruction exercise. It becomes a handoff.
What 5,000 projects taught us
“On a $25M urban utility project, we tracked 10 situations over 13 months where, without the visual data vSite put in front of our crews, we might have hit something underground. Every one of those avoided strikes represents real money and real liability. Beyond damage prevention, we recovered margins due to the administrative overhead reduction. In this industry the margin is already thin. You cannot afford to leave it on the ground because your field and office systems don’t talk to each other.”
— Ivan Petin, Director, GIP Construction, Ontario
Promark-Telecon, a leading locate services provider in Canada, estimated that vSite reduces locate documentation time by 90% — turning a process that consumed hours into one that takes minutes per locate, on every active project.
Today, vSite is trusted by contractors and municipalities across North America and Europe — including some of the most recognized names in civil and utility construction:
Across 5,000+ deployments, the pattern is consistent. Contractors using vSite recover 2 to 4 weeks of cash flow per project, recapture 35% of administrative time, and protect 1 to 3% of margin that would otherwise erode quietly between the field and the office.
A note from our CEO
“Utility and civil construction has been underserved by technology for a long time — not because the people in this industry don’t care, but because the tools that exist were never built for it. They were built for vertical construction, adapted for horizontal work, and handed to crews who had no choice but to make them fit. What we’ve spent years solving is harder than it looks: how do you prevent a strike before the first cut? How do you give a superintendent in a trench the same information the project director has in the office? How do you make documentation happen at the speed of construction instead of the speed of paperwork? Five thousand projects means five thousand times we’ve had to earn that answer in the field. We’re still learning. But we’re building something this industry has needed for a long time.”
— Alexandre Pestov, CEO, vGIS
Built for road and utility projects
Most construction technology is built wide — designed for the broadest market and adapted for utility work as an afterthought. vSite is built narrow on purpose. Purpose-built for the contractor who puts crews next to buried infrastructure every day, on projects where the margin is thin, the documentation burden is heavy, and the cost of getting it wrong lands immediately.
5,000+ projects later, that focus is what drives every decision we make.
The question isn’t whether your projects can run better. It’s whether you’re willing to find out how much you’ve been leaving on the table.
Start at vgis.io/vsite.
