Propeller helps data center construction teams track civil progress, validate sitework, document buried utilities, and share one trusted record from field to office.
- Prove what changed
- Validate work against design
- Keep owners and teams aligned
One civil site record for data centers
AI demand is raising the stakes for data center civil work
Data centers may power AI, but they still start with dirt, utilities, drainage, roads, and pads. As demand accelerates, contractors need to prove the site is ready before small civil gaps become expensive delays. On a 60MW data center, even one month of delay can cost up to $14.2M in lost revenue and carrying costs.
Teams need a current record that shows:
- Pads, access roads, and laydowns are ready for the next handoff
- Utility corridors, trenches, drainage, and field changes are documented before they slow work
- Quantities are defensible for payment verification and audits
Workflows that keep data center construction moving
Prove civil readiness before the schedule slips
Before vertical work starts, teams need to confirm that pads, access, laydown areas, haul roads, staging, and temporary works are ready.
- Capture a high-accuracy baseline before work starts
- Track mass grading, pad readiness, and access progress against design
- Validate production and grade between milestones with drone survey, site analysis, and DirtMate RTK
Document buried utilities before proof disappears
Data centers are utility-dense sites. Propeller helps teams document trenches, duct banks, utility corridors, and surrounding conditions before backfill.
- Capture buried work before it is covered
- Add ground-level context with 360 Walkthroughs and Handheld Scanning
- Keep timestamped proof civil, utility, electrical, vertical, and owner teams can reference
Give owners and JV partners progress updates they can trust
Owners, program teams, and JV partners need a shared view of progress, blockers, and readiness so teams can make decisions faster and keep schedules predictable.
- Track measurable progress across crews, scopes, and work packages
- Create owner-ready reports from current site conditions
- Align civil, vertical, JV, subcontractor, program, and owner teams around one trusted source of truth
Support payment verification with defensible site data
On data center construction sites, quantities change fast. Propeller helps teams tie cut/fill, pads, utilities, and work-in-place to dated site records.
- Measure cut/fill, stockpiles, and pad progress from current survey data
- Validate quantities against design surfaces, takeoffs, and work packages
- Give commercial teams clearer backup for pay apps, audits, subcontractor reviews, and change conversations
Prevent disputes with a timestamped site history
Compressed schedules, buried work, changing designs, and multiple subs make proof critical before issues escalate.
- Maintain a timestamped history of site conditions, progress, and exceptions
- Compare design intent, field changes, and current/as-built terrain
- Add ground-level evidence with 360 Walkthroughs and Handheld Scanning
- Support change order, backcharge, rework, quantity, and compliance conversations with defensible documentation
Document drainage, disturbance, and site accountability
Propeller helps contractors create a clearer record of the sitework they can control as scrutiny increases around power, water, permitting, and community impact.
- Track clearing, disturbance, drainage, temporary controls, and site changes over time
- Monitor high-scrutiny or fast-changing areas with repeatable capture
- Capture before/after records for owners, inspectors, and internal teams
Scaling innovation across hyperscale data centers
Mortenson, an ENR Top 400 Contractor, is putting site data in everyone’s hands to scale innovation on their projects.
“The next great innovation wasn’t just to have our super-smart tech people work harder. It was to take the tools and data normally reserved for VDC [Virtual Design and Construction] personnel and put them in everyone’s hands.”
– Mickey Kocemba, Senior Lean Innovation Manager, Mortenson
Our products
First capture to field checks, design decisions, and owner-ready updates
Propeller connects each step so teams can capture what changed, check what is ready, compare work against design, and share proof without stitching together disconnected tools.
Core product
Propeller
Bring designs, surveys, field checks, machine data, measurements, and progress updates into one shared civil map for every team moving the data center project forward.
Propeller PPK
Create high-precision survey outputs for large data center sites by combining AeroPoints, drone data, and Propeller processing to deliver a 3D map, point cloud, and orthophoto.
DirtMate
Track machine activity, surface changes, and earthmoving progress across data center grading areas, pads, access roads, haul routes, laydowns, and drainage work.
DirtMate RTK
Check grade, record points, and confirm field conditions when data center crews need answers between survey milestones.
360 Walkthroughs
Document ground-level context across corridors, interiors, handoffs, and active work areas so data center owners, JV partners, and project teams can review site conditions without another walk.
Handheld Scanning
Scan hard-to-fly or easy-to-miss areas like trenches, duct banks, drainage structures, covered areas, and as-built details before data center work changes or gets covered.
Propeller CAD
Turn current site conditions into workable civil options for data center pads, access roads, haul roads, drainage, staging, trenches, laydowns, and temporary works.
Close the gap between plan and field reality
Propeller CAD helps teams move faster from field reality to workable options.
- Turn plain-language earthwork concepts into site designs on real survey terrain
- Compare access, pad, haul road, drainage, and staging options against current conditions
- Understand rough quantity and constructability tradeoffs before decisions slow the job down
- Document decisions from the same site record teams use to manage the work
Built for every team
Give field, office, and owner teams the same site record to spot schedule risk, make decisions faster, and keep work moving with confidence.
Project Managers
Track readiness, progress, handoffs, schedule risk, and owner/JV updates from one shared record.
Superintendents
Validate grade, access, pads, laydowns, haul roads, drainage, and field context before work changes or gets covered.
Survey Managers
Manage baseline capture, design conformance, surface comparisons, as-builts, buried utilities, quantities, and field-to-office handoffs
VDC Managers
Standardize site data, design context, permissions, secure collaboration, reporting, integrations, and adoption across large project teams.
Estimators
Validate quantities, cut/fill, work-in-place, production, pay app backup, forecasting, and change conversations with dated site records.
Owners
See progress, risk, readiness, handoffs, and proof across active work without another site walk.
Guided demo
See the workflows in action
Combine drone surveys, machine telematics, and automated reporting into a single integrated platform built for hyperscale data center projects.
Ready to prove data center civil work from one shared site record?
See how Propeller helps data center construction teams track progress, validate sitework, document buried utilities, and give every team the confidence to keep work moving.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Propeller maintains SOC 2 Type 2 compliance and undergoes annual external audits. Customer data is encrypted in transit using HTTPS with TLS 1.2 or higher and encrypted at rest using AES-256. Propeller supports SSO through OAuth2, OpenID Connect, and SAML, plus MFA through SSO integrations and Passkeys. Customers can request SOC 2 reports, BCDR plans, and other security documentation through the Propeller Trust Center.
Yes. Propeller gives owners, program teams, JV partners, and contractors one shared civil record for progress, readiness, risk, handoffs, and proof. For teams managing multiple projects, Propeller can help standardize how civil records are captured, measured, and shared across sites.
Propeller helps teams capture trenches, duct banks, utility corridors, drainage, grounding, power and fiber corridors, and surrounding site conditions before backfill. Drone surveys provide the measurable site record, while 360 Walkthroughs and Handheld Scanning add ground-level context where details are harder to capture from above.
Propeller CAD helps teams create review-ready civil options from current site conditions, then send final designs through the right expert review and approval process.
ield builds, expansions, infrastructure upgrades, utility and drainage work, major sitework, and turnover documentation anywhere teams need a clear record of civil progress and site conditions.
Propeller helps teams compare current site conditions against design files, create high-precision survey outputs, and share reports or site views with field, office, VDC, owner, and partner teams. Propeller CAD can also help teams create review-ready civil options and export to downstream workflows for expert review where appropriate.
The right capture workflow depends on what teams need to prove. Drone surveys support sitewide progress, quantities, surfaces, and design comparisons. 360 Walkthroughs and Handheld Scanning add ground-level context for utilities, corridors, and hard-to-capture areas. DirtMate RTK helps teams validate grade and production between survey milestones, while DJI Dock can support repeatable capture on fast-moving sites.