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Caterpillar Teams With NVIDIA to Revolutionize Heavy Industry with Physical AI and Robotics

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Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) today announced an expanded collaboration with NVIDIA to drive innovation across industries through next-generation, AI-enhanced customer solutions and manufacturing systems. This engagement will transform how work gets done for Caterpillar’s customers, dealers and employees. “As AI moves beyond data to reshape the physical world, it is unlocking new opportunities for innovation —…

SiteZeus Delivers Record Growth and Breakthrough AI Advances in Site Selection

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SiteZeus, a leading location intelligence and site selection software provider for multi-unit brands, closed 2025 with record growth and major product innovations that reshaped how brands forecast performance, evaluate risk, and align stakeholders around expansion decisions. Across the year, SiteZeus grew their client base by 25%, including welcoming multiple new Fortune 500 companies, reflecting growing demand…

The AI Boom and Commercial Real Estate

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Commercial real estate has quietly rewired itself around the AI boom, and that shift is changing the risk profile of the entire asset class. Data centers are on track to surpass office construction as capital floods toward digital infrastructure that promises higher returns and sustained demand. Last year alone, data centers outperformed nearly every other…

Building Resilience: How AI Can Protect Construction and Infrastructure from Climate Risk

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Construction executives know better than most how fragile our infrastructure can be in the face of hurricanes, wildfires, floods, and other disasters. Deloitte’s new report, AI for Infrastructure Resilience, makes a clear case: artificial intelligence isn’t just another buzzword; it’s a tool that could prevent billions in damage and transform how the industry prepares, responds,…

Buildots Expands Autodesk Integration to Deliver Streamlined, AI-Powered Construction Issue Management

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AI construction technology leader Buildots today announced an expanded integration with Autodesk Construction Cloud®, a comprehensive construction management solution that connects workflows, teams, and data across every stage of a project. Project teams can now sync issues flagged by Buildots with Autodesk® Build. The resulting single workflow makes issue data more usable, impactful, and accessible at the point of…

AI in Construction: A New Era of Certainty for Capital Projects

by Brian Gallagher on

The complexity of construction projects has accelerated faster than the productivity tools designed to manage them. In today’s high-stakes environment—marked by tighter schedules, rising costs, workforce shortages, and sustainability pressures—artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as a transformative solution. From feasibility studies to performance monitoring, AI is enhancing efficiency, mitigating risk, and improving outcomes across the…

ABC Releases AI Construction Technology Report

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Associated Builders and Contractors today released its fourth annual construction technology report, which focuses on the impacts of artificial intelligence in the construction industry. The report includes a case study and thought leadership from ABC’s Tech Alliance to showcase how ABC is strengthening members’ understanding of AI. “ABC contractor members and the overall contracting community want more information…

Artificial Intelligence’s Role in Construction

by Brian Gallagher, Graycor on

Experts predict that artificial intelligence (AI) will follow in the footsteps of technologies like search engines and cloud computing, becoming a mainstream tool across industries. Despite challenges such as limited expertise and data complexity, AI is making strides in construction projects, though adoption in this field still trails other sectors. A McKinsey report highlights the…

HR and Organizational Leaders Must Collaborate to Build an AI Strategy That Enables Success and Mitigates Risk, Says Global HR Advisory Firm McLean & Company

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The surge of artificial intelligence (AI) advancement has left many organizations scrambling to adopt the technology to take advantage of the opportunities it promises before considering the necessary safeguards, skills, and capacities required for AI implementation. According to new research from global HR research and advisory firm McLean & Company, the HR division of Info-Tech Research…

ABC Unveils AI Resource Guide for Contractors

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Associated Builders and Contractors today announced it has released an artificial intelligence technology guide for the construction community, which includes definitions, construction use cases and considerations. The purpose of the guide is to provide a level of knowledge to ensure contractors can be active participants in the construction AI conversation. “ABC helps members realize the potential of…