On its own Jacksonville HQ renovation, design-builder Haskell posted QR codes around the jobsite so workers and trade partners could ask an AI agent about specs, submittals and drawings and get answers with links to the source documents. Assistant PMs also use a templated agent that compares a trade partner's submittal to the spec and lays out variances in a side-by-side table. Haskell estimates it saves about 10 minutes per field question and more than an hour per submittal review.
Turner's SafeT Coach answers plain-language safety questions using Turner's own EH&S standards and reviews uploaded jobsite photos to flag likely hazards, rank the risk and suggest controls. One superintendent used it to work out whether a vertical shaft counted as a permit-required confined space and got a decision flow chart, a daily permit checklist and policy citations within minutes. The tool has logged 25,000+ interactions, and Turner made it free for the whole industry in May 2026.
Turner SafeT CoachCompany announcementTurner Construction · May 2026
Minneapolis custom builder Sustainable 9 runs open-book, cost-plus projects up to $6M+ and used to build every draw in a giant spreadsheet. It now pulls costs automatically from bank feeds, vendor emails and field receipt photos into an AI construction-accounting tool, codes each one to job and cost code with approvals, and generates client-ready draw packages. The builder reports billing went from 80+ hours a month to about 2 hours per cycle and that it recovered thousands in receipts that used to go unbilled.
Shrock grew from a family Amish construction business into several entities (custom homes, restoration, prefab), and manual AP and credit-card entry kept coding costs to the wrong job or cost code. It automated AP and card entry with structured approvals and real-time job costing across entities. The controller reports bookkeeping fell from 26-30 hours a month to 12-16 per entity, with job-cost reports leadership can now trust.
Skanska USA built an internal "Safety Sidekick" on generative AI trained on its own safety data and jobsite conditions. Field staff use it on mobile or desktop to plan toolbox talks and morning huddles, ask safety questions, and ask about photos of the day's site conditions. Early users report less time spent preparing safety briefings and better jobsite engagement. Skanska's advice to smaller contractors: start with data you already have, or use an off-the-shelf tool rather than building your own.
OpenAI GPT-4oTrade publication interviewConstruction Dive · May 2025