Product Bedrock Says Its Excavators Now Work Alone. Three Contractors Put Their Names On It. Sundt, Zachry and Champion Site Prep are named on live projects where Bedrock's retrofitted excavators run without an operator. The named customers are the news — and a separate survey claiming contractor robotics use jumped from 29% to 79% in a year is the number to be careful with. Hugo Pegley · Aug 24, 2026
Analysis Someone Stole a Payroll File From America's Largest Contractor. They Say They Also Took the Drawings. Turner Construction has notified 6,098 Californians that their SSNs and bank details were taken. The ransomware group claims it holds 27.2 terabytes including engineering documents and ITAR-restricted material — a claim Turner will not address, and one the industry should think hard about. Hugo Pegley · Aug 24, 2026
Product "Trust But Verify": How a Real Contractor Is Actually Using AI on Drawing Sets Novo Construction's CIO on replacing Bluebeam overlays with Buildcheck's Diffs to catch changes between drawing revisions — and on why the value shows up in pricing, before construction starts, rather than in the field. Hugo Pegley · Aug 18, 2026
Analysis McKinsey Says AI Could Automate 39% of Construction's Desk Work. Nine Percent of the Industry Uses AI Daily. Two credible July datasets point in opposite directions: a McKinsey study on how much of construction's nonphysical work AI could automate, and survey data showing single-digit daily use. Analysis of what the gap actually measures — and who it favors. Hugo Pegley · Jul 30, 2026
