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
