About
Pivvot is a cloud spatial-analytics platform for site selection, linear routing, and environmental permitting, combining 500+ curated, continuously refreshed U.S. datasets — parcels, wetlands, species habitat, soils, jurisdictional boundaries, and infrastructure — into a browser-based map. Its Aware, Siting, and Route modules let engineering, environmental, and land teams evaluate project viability and generate defensible crossing, impact, and permit-matrix reports. Founded in 2018 as a Black & Veatch spin-out and acquired by Terracon in 2021, it is sold either as a platform subscription or as a data subscription delivered into a customer's own GIS.
How teams use it
By audience
- Civil Engineering
- Screens candidate corridors for slope, karst, depth to bedrock, and shrink-swell potential before any field work
- Pulls gSSURGO soils and geotechnical layers into early constructability reviews and cost estimates
- Compares route alternatives on crossings, grade, and constraint density to defend an alignment
- Supports FEL/FEED-stage permitting and environmental estimates so firms can respond to RFPs faster
- Surveying/Geomatics
- Supplies a normalized nationwide base of parcels, boundaries, and Public Land Survey as survey context
- Exports project geometry as Esri File Geodatabase, KML, or KMZ into existing GIS workflows
- Removes manual sourcing, reprojection, and QA of dozens of separate public datasets
- Uploads client or third-party layers alongside Pivvot data for combined analysis
- Owner/Developer
- Identifies viable solar, wind, battery, or data-centre sites by acreage, interconnect proximity, and ownership
- Scores and ranks parcels against weighted development criteria to shortlist locations
- Surfaces encumbrances, easements, setbacks, and nearby hazards during land due diligence
- Builds landowner contact lists from Smart Parcels to start acquisition outreach
- Project Manager
- Replaces weeks of desktop study with same-day crossing and impact reports
- Generates a permit matrix from federal, state, and county jurisdictional boundaries
- Shares one map-based source of truth with contractors and internal stakeholders
- Compares site or route options side by side to document why a selection was made
- Legal & Risk Management
- Documents environmental-justice and social-vulnerability exposure across a project area
- Evidences avoidance of protected lands, tribal lands, and National Register historic places
- Produces defensible, versioned analysis artifacts for the permitting record
- Flags contaminated sites, EPA Greenbook areas, and regulated waterbodies early in diligence
By phase
- Concept & Planning
- Screens candidate sites and corridors against wetlands, species habitat, floodplain, and slope before field work
- Generates a permit matrix from jurisdictional boundaries to expose scheduling risk up front
- Builds cost surfaces to guide least-cost-path routing decisions
- Compares alternatives on constructability, land ownership, and cost drivers
- Design
- Feeds normalized constraint, soils, and elevation data into corridor and site design
- Exports routes and site geometry to GIS and CAD for detailed design work
- Refines usable-area calculations against setbacks, exclusions, and access constraints
- Supplies subsurface and geotechnical context that shortens design iterations
- Pre-Construction
- Confirms parcel ownership, easements, and access constraints before mobilization
- Finalises the permitting checklist against current federal, state, and county data
- Assembles due-diligence packets and landowner contact lists for outreach
- Establishes the standardized spatial baseline shared with contractors and partners
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