CivilOps / English overview

English overview · Product in German

Construction software
from German building sites.

CivilOps is built and run by Oliver Schiemann, who trades as a sole proprietorship in Mertloch, Germany. It makes browser-based tools for the contractors who dig, lay and build: quantity surveying the client's surveyor will accept, a digital site diary for the site manager, and a dispatch board for lorries, machines and drivers. This page describes all of that in English. The applications, the documentation and the support are German-language only.

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Provider
CivilOps (owner: Oliver Schiemann)
Legal form
Sole proprietorship
VAT ID
DE464059254
Based in
Mertloch, Germany
Since
2026
Website
civilops.de
Sector
Construction software
Interface language
German
Market
Germany
  • REB-VB 23.003
  • GAEB X81 to X83, X86, D83
  • REB DA11
  • VOB/C · ATV
  • DXF / DWG import and export
  • PWA · offline

01 · What CivilOps is

Software for the contractor doing the work, not for the design office.

German construction has its own rulebook, and billing is where it bites. CivilOps is built around that rulebook rather than around a generic project management model.

The problem it solves

In German civil engineering, a contractor does not simply invoice a total quantity. Every quantity has to be presented as a calculation the client's surveyor can re-do line by line: which formula, which measured lengths, from which station to which. And it has to be recorded before the trench is backfilled. That document is called an Aufmaß. Getting it wrong delays payment on work that was otherwise done correctly.

CivilOps Bauabrechnung treats a quantity as that calculation rather than as a number. You import the bill of quantities from the client as a GAEB file. You enter quantities by typing, by formula or by drawing on a scaled plan. You hand back an auditable measurement sheet plus a DA11 file for the client's own system. Drawing a line produces linear metres and drawing an area produces square metres, and both land on the right item of the bill of quantities as a traceable calculation.

Two things follow from that focus. CivilOps deliberately does not try to be a suite: it is three separate applications that share one account, and you take only the ones that fit your site. And it is deliberately not an invoicing package. The invoice still comes out of your existing back-office system; CivilOps produces the evidence behind it.

02 · The products

Three applications. One account. Bought separately.

All three run in the browser and are live today. Each has its own web address and its own price, and you are never forced into a bundle.

Live

CivilOps Bauabrechnung

Quantity surveying and measurement records for civil, sewer and landscaping works

The core product, and the reason the rest exists. Quantities are captured as calculations the client's surveyor can recalculate, to REB-VB 23.003, either from the formula catalogue or in a free-form formula editor. Each one is tied to the item of the bill of quantities it belongs to.

  • GAEB import (X81 to X83, X86 and D83), showing measured against tendered quantity for every item
  • Built-in CAD: draw and dimension directly, snapping and ortho, layers, DXF and DWG import, DXF and DWG export in 2D and 3D
  • PDF, DXF or DWG plan as an underlay, scaled by picking two known points
  • Official ALKIS cadastre from 15 German states loaded straight into the plan: parcels, buildings and boundary points, exported as DXF in true UTM coordinates (Gelände module)
  • Auditable measurement sheet as PDF with sketch and your company logo; export to Excel, CSV, DXF, DWG and REB DA11
  • Installable as a progressive web app and usable offline, which matters where there is no mobile coverage
  • Two optional modules: Kanal (sewer quantities under VOB/C, ATV DIN 18303, cable and duct trenches) and Gelände (ALKIS cadastre, digital terrain models, foundation excavations, earthworks volumes by the prismoidal method, REB 22.013)
app.civilops.de
Live

CivilOps Bautagebuch

Site diary and site manager dashboard

The site diary German construction contracts routinely require, filed from the site instead of typed up in the office in the evening. The foreman records the day on a phone; the site manager sees labour, plant, output and weather in one place.

  • Daily reports with labour, plant, output and photos, filed from the site
  • Time recording with a weekly hours report, payroll export on request
  • Gantt construction schedules with public holidays by federal state
  • Traffic sign layout plans with official German road signs, as an annex to the traffic authority's order under section 45 StVO
  • Occupational safety included: risk assessments, safety briefings signed on the phone, pre-start checks and a first-aid log
btb.civilops.de
Live

CivilOps Logistik

Dispatch planning board for vehicles, machines and drivers

The magnetic planning board from the dispatch office, now on screen. One row per vehicle, machine or driver, one column per day. You move jobs by dragging them, and the system blocks double bookings.

  • Several runs per vehicle per day, each with driver, site contact and time window
  • Next day's driver schedule as a PDF, plus a delivery note for each run
  • Fleet management with due dates for the statutory German vehicle and machine inspections
  • Optional rental fleet add-on: handover and return records with on-screen signature, bulk items such as site fencing with stock levels and partial returns, open-ended rentals with interim billing, rental billing summaries as PDF as the basis for your own invoice, internal charge-out rates, free warehouse logins without prices
  • New container add-on: rental board for site and office containers, plus daily dispatch for skip and roll-off containers with standing charges and weighbridge tickets; price on request
  • Drivers, site and warehouse staff use it free of charge; you pay for the dispatcher seats, each including 50 vehicles and machines (attachments and small tools do not count)
dispo.civilops.de

Prices are published in full, in euros, on the German site. CivilOps is sold only to business customers (Unternehmer within the meaning of section 14 of the German Civil Code), under German law, with a 14-day free trial. There is no international edition and no distribution outside Germany. All prices are net plus VAT and apply to new contracts for companies with up to 25 employees. Larger companies and groups receive an individual quote. Annual payment gives 10% off the cheapest base package; extra users, dispatchers and vehicle quotas remain at their full prices. Existing contracts are not automatically changed. Full price list on civilops.de.

03 · German terms

The vocabulary this software is built on.

These terms have no clean English equivalent, which is precisely why software written elsewhere tends not to fit. Both spellings are given where German uses an umlaut or a sharp s (ss).

Measurement and billing

  • Aufmaß (Aufmass): the on-site measurement record that documents how each billed quantity was arrived at. Closest English equivalent: the measurement and take-off behind an interim payment application and, later, the final account.
  • GAEB: the German standard for exchanging tender and bill of quantities data between client and contractor. File types X81 to X86 and the older D83.
  • REB: the German rules for the electronic measurement and billing of civil engineering works. REB-VB 23.003 defines the formula-based measurement entries; REB 22.013 covers earthworks volumes.
  • DA11: the REB data exchange format for measurement records, used to hand quantities over to the client's AVA system (the German tendering, award and billing software).
  • VOB/C and ATV: the German general technical rules of contract for building works. ATV DIN 18303 (shoring works) governs how shoring areas are measured; standard trench widths for sewer works follow DIN EN 1610 and DIN 4124.

Site and dispatch

  • Bautagebuch: the site diary. In German practice it is the contemporaneous record that carries the day, both for progress and for later claims.
  • Plantafel: the dispatch planning board. Traditionally a physical magnetic board in the yard office showing which vehicle goes where on which day.
  • Polier: the site foreman, the person who runs the crew on the ground and files the daily report.
  • Verkehrszeichenplan: the traffic sign layout plan. Roadworks in Germany need one as an annex to the traffic authority's order under section 45 StVO.
  • Tiefbau: civil engineering below ground, that is earthworks, drainage, sewer and road construction. GaLaBau is garden and landscape construction. These are the trades CivilOps is written for.

04 · Who builds it

One person, who measures and bills construction sites for a living.

I am Oliver Schiemann, a construction technician (Bautechniker) working in civil engineering. For over 15 years I have measured and valued work on site: take-off, quantities, the evidence behind them, variations, and the back and forth with the site team and the client. Civil and road construction, demolition, plus surveying with a rover pole and a drone through to as-built comparison against a 3D model. That is my day job, not a side interest.

Before moving into construction I trained in IT, which let me turn application development from a hobby into my profession. That mix is the reason CivilOps exists: I know the auditable measurement record from my own work, and I can build the software for it myself. I have used the big industry packages. What struck me was that the real effort sits somewhere else, in producing a clean, traceable measurement that passes the client's check. That is where CivilOps starts, and it leaves the rest out.

Every function is in there because I missed it on site or at the desk, not because it looked good in a brochure. There is no call centre. Questions go to os@civilops.de and the answer comes from me.

05 · Provider and legal

Who you are dealing with.

The provider information below is a courtesy translation of the German Impressum. If the two versions differ, the German version prevails.

Provider information

Information pursuant to section 5 of the German Digital Services Act (DDG):

CivilOps
Owner: Oliver Schiemann
Am Antoniushof 9
56753 Mertloch
Germany

Email: os@civilops.de
VAT identification number under section 27a of the German VAT Act (Umsatzsteuer-Identifikationsnummer): DE464059254
Responsible for content under section 18 (2) of the German Interstate Media Treaty (MStV): Oliver Schiemann, address as above.

There is no commercial register entry and no company suffix: this is a sole proprietorship, not a GmbH, Ltd or Inc. The authoritative German texts are the Impressum, the privacy policy and the terms and conditions.

Name, trade mark and identity

A German trade mark application for the word mark CivilOps was filed with the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA) on 15 July 2026, file number 30 2026 238 695.4, for Nice classes 9 and 42. The application is pending; the mark is not yet registered, and no registered trade mark rights are claimed for the sign CivilOps at this time. If and when it is entered on the register, this page will be updated.

Other businesses use similar names in other markets and sectors. This website, civilops.de, is the website of the provider named here, and the applications described on this page are available only at app.civilops.de, btb.civilops.de and dispo.civilops.de.

Hosting takes place exclusively in data centres in Germany, with IONOS SE in Montabaur as processor under an agreement pursuant to Article 28 GDPR. Some optional functions load map tiles or open map links from third parties (OpenStreetMap, Esri, Google Maps); the German privacy policy sets this out in detail.

Last updated: 26 August 2026. This page is an English description of a German-language product. It is not a sales channel and no contract can be concluded through it.

The German site has the full detail, screenshots and a demo video: civilops.de · Bautagebuch · Logistik