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
Analysis Suffolk and MIT Put a Number on Construction AI. It Came From a Model, Not a Jobsite. A joint white paper with the MIT Center for Real Estate and the MIT Media Lab estimates six AI levers applied together could take 17-20% off cost and 22-25% off schedule on a sample multifamily project. The most useful sentence in it is the one explaining where those numbers come from. Hugo Pegley · Sep 18, 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
