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UpCodes says its AI Plan Review flagged 180,000 potential code issues across 1,300 plan sets
UpCodes' AI Plan Review checks drawing sets against local codes. UpCodes says sets averaged 21 critical issues, 46% of them in life safety.
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ABC's Construction Backlog Indicator rose to 8.7 months in September, its second monthly gain
ABC's Construction Backlog Indicator rose 0.2 months to 8.7 months in September, with commercial and institutional backlog at 9.0 months.
8.7 September 2026 · +2.4% on the month · +2.4% on the year
Backlog has climbed back from July's low
ABC Construction Backlog Indicator, months of work under contract, September 2024 to September 2026
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How to track total float across monthly schedule updates, with a 30-day example
Logging total float on the two most critical paths at each schedule update shows how fast a job uses its cushion. This example tracks eight updates.
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Track3D prices AI progress tracking at $0.15 per square foot and adds site photo documentation at no extra cost
Track3D turns end-of-day site captures into percent complete by level, trade and area, checked against the schedule, for $0.15 per square foot.
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How to adjust days sales outstanding for retainage and billing cycles, with a 51.6-day example
A contractor's DSO mixes retainage, bills not yet due and bills past due. This example splits a 51.6-day DSO into those pieces by owner.
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ServiceTitan opens its Max AI pilot to commercial contractors with daily log and invoice agents
ServiceTitan's Max pilot gives commercial and roofing contractors AI agents that draft foremen's daily logs and review invoices.
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How to track retainage aging by job and by owner, with a $1.35 million example
Retainage aging starts when the release comes due. This example sorts $1.35 million of retainage on six jobs by job, by owner and by days past due.
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| Date | Trend | Category | Title | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data | ABC's Construction Backlog Indicator rose to 8.7 months in September, its second monthly gain | ABC's Construction Backlog Indicator rose 0.2 months to 8.7 months in September, with commercial and institutional backlog at 9.0 months. | ||
| AI | UpCodes says its AI Plan Review flagged 180,000 potential code issues across 1,300 plan sets Feature | UpCodes' AI Plan Review checks drawing sets against local codes. UpCodes says sets averaged 21 critical issues, 46% of them in life safety. | ||
| Data | How to track total float across monthly schedule updates, with a 30-day example | Logging total float on the two most critical paths at each schedule update shows how fast a job uses its cushion. This example tracks eight updates. | ||
| AI | Track3D prices AI progress tracking at $0.15 per square foot and adds site photo documentation at no extra cost | Track3D turns end-of-day site captures into percent complete by level, trade and area, checked against the schedule, for $0.15 per square foot. | ||
| Data | How to adjust days sales outstanding for retainage and billing cycles, with a 51.6-day example | A contractor's DSO mixes retainage, bills not yet due and bills past due. This example splits a 51.6-day DSO into those pieces by owner. | ||
| AI | ServiceTitan opens its Max AI pilot to commercial contractors with daily log and invoice agents | ServiceTitan's Max pilot gives commercial and roofing contractors AI agents that draft foremen's daily logs and review invoices. | ||
| Data | How to track retainage aging by job and by owner, with a $1.35 million example Feature | Retainage aging starts when the release comes due. This example sorts $1.35 million of retainage on six jobs by job, by owner and by days past due. | ||
| AI | Volve adds an AI layer that checks spec quantities against tender drawings and the IFC model | Volve's tender software now takes a plain-language task, such as matching spec quantities to drawings and the model, and returns sourced mismatches. | ||
| Data | How to compute your experience mod from the NCCI worksheet, with a $100,000 loss example | NCCI's experience mod weights claim count above claim size. This example shows ten $10,000 claims pushing a mod above 1.00 where one $100,000 claim does not. | ||
| AI | Speedchain says its AI Receipt Agent cut one contractor's month-end close time 95% | Speedchain's AI Receipt Agent collects card receipts by text, reads the vendor and amount, and suggests the job and cost code for approval. | ||
| Data | How to compute TRIR and DART from your OSHA 300 log, with a drywall contractor example | TRIR and DART divide recordable cases by hours worked. This example computes both for a drywall contractor and compares them to BLS 2024 rates. | ||
| AI | Togal.AI's takeoff benchmark scores the best general AI model at 34.0 out of 100 on 33 drawing tasks Feature | Construction's Last Exam scores AI models on 33 takeoff tasks. GPT-6 Sol led general models at 34.0, and Togal's own tool scored 97.7. | ||
| Data | Commercial furniture prices rose 3.9% in the year to August as steel rose 23% Feature | BLS says producer prices for commercial furniture hit a record in August 2026, up 3.9% in a year, as steel mill products rose 23.4%. | ||
| Data | Dodge Momentum Index rose 2.4% in September to 288.0 as institutional planning grew 9.4% | The Dodge Momentum Index rose 2.4% in September to 288.0, with institutional planning up 9.4% and commercial planning down 1.3%. | ||
| AI | Buildcheck raises $12 million for AI drawing review it says has flagged 115,000 issues across 150,000 drawings | Buildcheck's software reads 2D PDF drawing sets with computer vision and flags clashes, omissions and spec conflicts, and its staff check each flag. | ||
| Data | How to track job hazard analyses as a leading safety indicator | Each signed JHA records a task, a crew and a risk score. Counted weekly, JHA coverage and crew participation show safety gaps before an injury. | ||
| Data | How to measure labor productivity from daily logs and timecards, with a drywall example | Units installed per labor hour come from the daily log and the timecards. This example tracks a drywall crew for 10 days against its estimate. | ||
| AI | Punchcard survey finds 64% of Canadian construction workers trust AI to read drawings and 87% get no formal AI support | A Punchcard and Angus Reid poll of 1,100 Canadian workers finds construction trusts AI with drawings and codes but gets the least employer support. | ||
| Data | How to compute SPI and CPI from pay application data, with a $12 million example Feature | SPI and CPI compare earned value from the pay application to the baseline plan and to job cost. This example works both for a 12-month job at month six. | ||
| AI | UC Irvine's CORNAV robot planner reads CAD floor plans and look-ahead schedules, raising task success from 13.0% to 72.2% | CORNAV steers site robots from the 2D CAD floor plan and the weekly look-ahead schedule, and kept every planned route out of zones the schedule closed. | ||
| Data | How to measure change orders as a percent of original contract by cause, with a $100 million example | Change order rate divides approved change orders by the original contract. This example splits it by job and by cause across six jobs. | ||
| AI | Miter raises $40 million as its contractor payroll platform turns crew photos and voice notes into safety reports | Miter runs contractor payroll and certified payroll and turns crew photos and voice notes into safety reports. It raised $40 million on Sept. 30. | ||
| Data | How to track bid-hit ratio by client type, job size and estimator, with a 120-bid example | Bid-hit ratio counts bids per job won. This example splits it by client type, job size and estimator, in counts and in dollars. | ||
| AI | Top AI model matches building drawings to photos 83.9% of the time in the ARCH-B benchmark Feature | ARCH-B tests whether 25 AI models can match floor plans, elevations and photos of the same building, and the best one got 83.9% right. | ||
| Data | Construction added 11,000 jobs in September, led by nonresidential specialty trade contractors | BLS says construction employment rose by 11,000 to 8,364,000 in September 2026, led by nonresidential specialty trade contractors. | ||
| AI | Kuro raises €10 million for AI tender review that customers say saves about 90 hours per bid | Kuro's software reads a tender's drawings, specs and bills of quantities, flags where they contradict each other and checks subcontractor bids. | ||
| Data | Construction spending rose 0.9% in August after Census revised July up $27 billion | Census says US construction spending ran at $2,203.1 billion SAAR in August 2026, up 0.9% from a July figure revised up by 1.2%. | ||
| AI | Quotr raises $4 million for AI takeoff software that it says cut 20-hour takeoffs to 1 to 2 hours | Quotr's software reads PDF plan sets, counts and measures quantities, prices them and drafts a proposal. It raised a $4 million seed round on September 30. | ||
| AI | Anthropic's robot exposure index rates operating engineers at 1.6 out of 3 and electricians at 0.33 Feature | Anthropic scored every US occupation on how much of its work robots can do today. In construction, equipment operators score highest and electricians low. | ||
| AI | a16z says AI accounts for nearly all new construction spending, and Census shows data centers up 57.2% as the total fell 3.8% Feature | a16z's State of Markets deck credits AI with nearly all new construction spending. Census shows data centers up 57.2% in a year as the total fell 3.8%. | ||
| Data | Construction jobs rose in 177 of 360 metro areas from August 2025 to August 2026, led by Houston and Baton Rouge | AGC's ranking of BLS metro data shows construction jobs up in 177 of 360 areas and down in 126 from August 2025 to August 2026. | ||
| AI | Buildertrend's AI Submittals drafts the submittal log from an uploaded spec book | Buildertrend says AI Submittals reads a spec book and drafts the submittal log as a CSV for the user to review and import. | ||
| Data | Construction job openings fell 16% to 251,000 in August after BLS cut July to 299,000 | BLS says construction job openings fell to 251,000 in August 2026 from a revised 299,000 in July, as hires and layoffs also fell. | ||
| AI | ServiceTitan survey finds 62% of commercial service contractors have tried AI and 15% of users report clear ROI Feature | ServiceTitan polled 1,020 commercial MEP service firms. 62% have tried AI, and ServiceTitan says 15% of AI users report clear ROI. | ||
| Data | How to compute backlog in months and compare it with ABC's 8.5-month August reading | Backlog in months divides signed, unearned work by annual revenue. Here is the formula ABC uses, a worked example, and how to read yours against its survey. | ||
| AI | viAct says AI on Alliad's existing site cameras cut recorded PPE violations 41.7% in three months | viAct reports 41.7% fewer recorded PPE violations in three months on an Alliad hospital job, using cameras already on site. | ||
| Data | How to measure gross margin fade across a portfolio of jobs | Fade compares each job's bid margin with its current estimate. Here is how to measure it by job, by estimator and across the portfolio. | ||
| Data | Autodesk says Forma will replace Revit over time, without a forced switch | The Revit link to Forma is a Revit 2027 tech preview that Autodesk says to keep off live projects, and a project that joins it cannot leave. | ||
| AI | Researchers release ConSynth-X, 34,199 synthetic jobsite images for testing site cameras in rain, fog and darkness Feature | A Kent State and UNT dataset turns 3,109 jobsite photos into 11 weather and night versions each, and every version keeps the original labels. | ||
| Data | How to build a work-in-progress schedule from job cost data, column by column | A WIP schedule needs four inputs per job. Here is how each column is calculated and what it tells a CFO, with a four-job worked example. | ||
| AI | STACK IQ lets estimators work STACK takeoffs and estimates from Claude or ChatGPT | STACK IQ connects Claude or ChatGPT to STACK takeoffs and estimates, and STACK includes it in paid subscriptions at no extra cost. | ||
| Data | Architecture billings index rose to 47.2 in August as Northeast firms fell to their lowest reading since 2020 | The AIA/Deltek Architecture Billings Index rose to 47.2 in August from 46.6 in July, still below 50, as the Northeast fell to 40.7. | ||
| AI | Autodesk puts a Submittals Evaluation Agent and a Bid Proposal Agent into beta in Forma | Autodesk's new Forma agents check submittals against specs and pull pricing out of sub proposals. Both are in beta. | ||
| AI | Suffolk and MIT model 17% to 20% AI cost savings on one multifamily project Feature | A Suffolk and MIT white paper models 17% to 20% cost and 22% to 25% schedule savings from AI on one completed multifamily job. | ||
| Data | Census revises August building permits up to 1,403,000, still below July | Census revised August building permits to a 1,403,000 annual rate, up from the preliminary estimate but 2.1% below July. | ||
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