AI agents arrive in the site office, but where is the value?

Procore turned AI agents loose on submittals and procurement logs, and EarthCam plugged its jobsite cameras straight into ChatGPT and Claude. At the same time, two surveys show that most builders still struggle to measure what AI actually brings. In materials, Holcim recycled a third more demolition waste, a Zurich start-up sold its first carbon credits for timber buildings, and data centres may become the first big buyers of low-carbon concrete. Our focus: how large language models work, in plain terms.

• Procore, the largest construction management platform, puts AI agents on submittals and procurement logs (ENR)
• Survey of 109 construction executives: AI changes how teams work far more often than it cuts jobs (Construction Dive)
• EarthCam, a jobsite camera company, lets ChatGPT and Claude 'see' construction sites (EarthCam press release (GlobeNewswire))
• Zurich start-up Timber Carbon sells its first carbon credits for CO₂ stored in timber buildings (Startupticker.ch (press release, German))
• Holcim, the Swiss building materials group, recycled a third more demolition waste in nine months (World Cement)
• Six construction software start-ups raise $154M, from AI plan checking to utility maps (Construction Dive)
• Canada debates whether data centres could become the first big buyers of low-carbon concrete (BetaKit)