Construction Industry AI

The San Francisco company announced $20 million co-led by Accel and Zacua Ventures on 15 October, 18 months after it started building and with its first robots already on New York job sites. The release names no round letter, no valuation and no commercia

Bluebeam's 2027 AEC Technology Outlook, published 13 October, reports adoption flat and the middle of the market filling up: 7% with AI across multiple core workflows, 32% parked in pilots, 31% exploring. Its methodology section is the part worth reading:

Access Evo now spans Access ConQuest, Access Fonn and Access Coins with four named capabilities and human-in-the-loop approvals, available from 15 October across key markets including the UK, Ireland, the US and Australia. Evo itself is not new: on the gr

Four months after launching AI Plan Review, UpCodes has published what it found: 180,000+ potential issues across 1,300+ plan sets in 73 jurisdictions, an average of 21 critical issues per set, and 46% of those critical issues in life-safety systems. The

A multi-year agreement announced 13 October gives D.R. Horton - described in the release as America's largest homebuilder by volume - access to Promise Robotics' Factory-as-a-Service capability for more than 1,250 homes. The release discloses no dollar va

Rocscience is expected to deliver revenue approaching $50 million this calendar year, more than 80% of it recurring, at EBITAC margins above 40% - roughly 11 times revenue for an asset whose margin is well above the 24-26% Hexagon has set itself through 2

The Intelligence Lab's first Global Construction Benchmarks Report, published 8 October, puts on-time starts at 29.3%, schedule adherence at 52.8% and undelivered weekly output at 37%. The numbers come from site capture rather than a survey, which is the

The Innovation Design Consortium has named Acelab co-development partner on an open material data standard, built on a shared ontology so product information is published once and reused. The consortium's figure for what is at stake: 46 member firms, abou

Build Paperless says it is the first Australian job management software in Anthropic's Claude Connectors Directory, with a connector exposing 37 tools over MCP. The more checkable artefact is the npm package it published three weeks earlier, whose documen

Bentley Systems named the winners of its 2026 Year in Infrastructure Awards in Singapore on 7 October: 12 category winners and 16 Founders' Honors from 300-plus nominations across 53 countries. Three of the 28 recognised projects name AI in the project or