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Largest-yet deployment of startup firm's autonomous excavators helps with operator shortage on 130-acre manufacturing site.

Largest-yet deployment of startup firm's autonomous excavators helps with operator shortage on 130-acre manufacturing site

Employees with access to ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot have already built hundreds of AI-based agents to improve company workflows

Procore new terms of service ban buik downloads of construction data from its platform for training artificial intelligence large language models. Trunk Tools says it was not allowed into Procore's new marketplace despite changes in data collection. 

Firm introduced more AI agents, including expanded workflows and querying capabilities, in products OpenSite, Synchro, Projectwise, OpenRoads, OpenRails and Cesium. 

An analysis of thousands of construction projects using Hammertech's safety platform worldwide found that most construction safety incidents can be defined by three worksite mechanisms. 

Interactive center in Chicago is now expected to cost more than double the initial $300- million estimate, says the latest financial report from its non-profit owner.

The contractor's new AI-based tools, which can assist in building submittals and avoiding requests for information, will be used on 200 Gilbane projects in the U.S.in the next two years.

Ajei Gopal will take over as CEO of Procore after current CEO Toohey Courtemanche becomes chairman of the company's board. 

Bluebeam acquires preconstruction artificial intelligence analysis tool Firmus and furthers its partnership with Procore. 

Autodesk has opened a public beta for it's cloud-based Forma Building Design tool, and detailed a larger reorganization of its cloud software strategy.

Autodesk will release new geometry-trained AI assistants, first in Revit, later this year. Autodesk Construction Cloud will be folded into the Forma AEC cloud platform. 

The number of public electric vehicle charging ports in Washington state has more than doubled in the last four years.

The construction technology provider sees artificial intelligence as a way to bridge gaps left in reality capture and spatial intelligence on jobsites.

Mortenson opens BLULabs, Versatile debuts Control Center for steel erection project managers and Buildots signs an agreement with Juneau Construction.

Procore and Amazon Web Services enter a deal to share data and joint-develop artificial intelligence, interoperability and other tools for construction. 

Action follows Ritchie Bros. agreement with the US Dept. of Homeland Security, but neither would confirm if the current condition of materials, bought in 2017, is suitable for new construction.  

Skanska USA Building Co. has an eight-step enabling process that it uses to evaluate all its new technologies, which it deployed in the construction of the LaGuardia Airport Terminal B redevelopment in New York City.

The start-up is further expanding capabilities of its robotics platform, which was originally designed for mid- and high-rise facade installation. 

Artificial intelligence-powered construction platform's series B funding adds more investors as firm expands its product capabilities, go-to-market teams and field enablement program