Analysis 28% of US AEC Firms Run AI in Production. A Year Ago Bluebeam's Number Was 27%. 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: it tells readers why its own year-over-year comparison should not be read as a trendline. Hugo Pegley · Oct 15, 2026
Analysis UpCodes Ran Its AI Over 1,300 Plan Sets. The Most Common Critical Finding Was a Missing Exit Sign. 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 $1m-per-project cost figure is modelled, and the release's own footnote says so. Hugo Pegley · Oct 14, 2026
Analysis Buildots Benchmarked 21 Construction Activities. Twenty of Them Delivered Less Than the Schedule Assumed. 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 genuinely new thing about them — and the full report is gated behind a form, so this piece works from the release and the landing page. Hugo Pegley · Oct 12, 2026
Funding CivilGrid Raised $26M for the Layer of the Job Nobody Owns A Series A led by Spark Capital for a platform that consolidates utility, environmental and geotechnical data before anyone digs. Its co-founder is a former PG&E engineer, and the company's most persuasive number comes from PG&E's own preconstruction spend. Hugo Pegley · Sep 2, 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
Analysis Suffolk Is Putting AI Engineers on the Jobsite — and Betting 293 Terabytes of Clean Data Is the Moat One of America's largest builders has launched 'Jobsite of the Future,' an operating model that embeds AI Engineers directly in project teams. The headline isn't the software — it's the decade and the $100 million Suffolk spent assembling the clean data that makes any of it work. Hugo Pegley · Jun 18, 2026
