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Get the Pre-Release of the 2026 A.I. Excellence in Construction Report
Early survey findings from 400 construction professionals, ahead of the full 2026 report
Independent, unsponsored research built directly from the experiences of construction leaders.
Benchmarks on how often builders use tools like ChatGPT and whether their firms are ready for what comes next.
Where A.I. business impact concentrates first, from estimating and takeoffs to contract administration.
The risks construction leaders rank highest: data privacy, overreliance, and inaccuracy.
A fast read on the trends shaping the industry before the full 2026 report is released.
What the research covers
Adoption Patterns
Where A.I. actually shows up in daily construction work, and how usage shifts by company size.
Everyday Tooling
Which A.I. tools teams reach for, and how often they're using them.
Readiness
How prepared firms feel to scale A.I., and where they know they're behind.
Trust & Risk
How much builders trust A.I. output today and which risks they rank highest.
About the 2026 A.I. Excellence in Construction Report
The A.I. Excellence in Construction Report is Placer Solutions' independent annual study of how construction firms are actually adopting A.I., not how vendors say they should be.
Prefer the complete findings? View the full 2026 report here
Methodology
The findings on this page come from the A.I. Excellence in Construction Survey: 400 construction professionals across the US and Canada, fielded in 2025 online and in person. Respondents span executives, field operations, preconstruction and estimating, project managers and superintendents, safety and quality, IT, and VDC. 96% have spent some or all of their career in construction.
The survey feeds the full 2026 report, alongside more than 30 executive interviews and anonymized insights from Placer's A.I. peer groups.
A.I. adoption is outpacing readiness in construction
53%
Experimenting with A.I.
68%
Not ready to scale it
65%
Don't fully trust A.I.
Frequently asked questions
It's Placer Solutions' independent, unsponsored annual research report on how construction firms are adopting artificial intelligence, covering benchmarking data, adoption patterns, readiness signals, and emergent risk themes. This page is the pre-release preview of the 2026 edition.
Placer Solutions, a construction technology research and advisory firm. The research is led by Nate Fuller, P.E., founder of Placer Solutions and previously a decade at Bechtel where he helped establish the company's Office of Innovation, and Hamzah Shanbari, Ph.D., Director of Innovation at Haskell and author of Paperless Builders.
No. The research is vendor-neutral by design, with no paid placements, sponsorships, or commercial influence shaping the content or conclusions. It is the industry's only unsponsored technology research of its kind.
September 9, 2026. It's a half-day virtual event where builders and technology leaders work through the research findings live, across a Builder Track and a Tech Track. Learn more about the summit here.
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