Research area
Architecture & Construction Technology
Architecture and construction technology — reality capture, BIM, site automation, and AI on real buildings.
Published research
1 new finding here overnight. 21 here in all.
2026-08-31
Aug 31, 2026AIU research
97% of US contractors’ primary jobsite drones are DJI - a week before a 100% tariff lands
What it meansA reality-capture pipeline resting on one vendor in one country is a single point of failure with a dated trigger, and the date is 3 September.
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2026-08-22
Aug 22, 2026AIU research
PlanRadar puts agents into construction admin — and they act without an approval step
What it meansApproval-free automation arriving in a liability-heavy trade is exactly where the question of who signs off gets decided in practice.
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2026-08-14
Aug 14, 2026AIU research
A jobsite tracking tool saved one contractor $342,000 on a single airport project
What it meansA named dollar figure on a named project is rare in construction AI and worth more than a vendor deck — and the recurring caveat from the people using it is that the value shows up when staff are equipped to overrule the tool, not defer to it.
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2026-08-10
Aug 10, 2026AIU research
A general contractor uses AI drawing comparison to catch design changes before they get priced
What it meansA narrow, checkable task — diff two document sets and show a human what moved — is where AI is currently earning its place in a trade that prices mistakes in six figures. Note the operator quantified nothing.
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2026-08-03
Aug 3, 2026AIU research
Procore to acquire DroneDeploy for $845M, folding reality-capture AI into the construction platform
What it meansConstruction’s biggest software platform is betting $845M that jobsite AI needs eyes — a demand-side signal for anyone selling or buying applied AI in the built world.
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2026-07-26
Jul 26, 2026AIU research
One downed line dropped 3.1 GW of data centres off the grid in 30 seconds
What it meansCompute siting is now a grid-engineering problem: whether a campus can ride through a fault is becoming as load-bearing to the build programme as square footage, water or cooling.
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