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Mike Powers · Luigi La Corte · Andrew Zukowski
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Aug 3, 2026 Adoption Beats Automation: The Future of Preconstruction with a Senior Estimator from Hensel Phelps
Kyle Bonde, Senior Estimator at Hensel Phelps, joins the Construction Technology Podcast to discuss what it takes for new technology to succeed inside a major general contractor. Kyle explains why…
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[The Next Build]
Victor Muchiri · Chief of Staff
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May 26, 2026 [Re-release] Construction Is Still Priced Like a Commodity Because It Doesn’t Operate on Macro Terms
Contractors compete on price because they react to markets instead of reading them. The path to better margins runs through macro intelligence and capital.
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BuildVision Team
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Mar 2026 Why Reps Lose Bids They Should Have Won
The structural reasons manufacturer reps lose bids where they were specified. Missed BODs, late quotes, and patterns nobody tracks.
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Equipment Sales Why Reps Lose Bids They Should Have Won
The structural reasons manufacturer reps lose bids where they were specified. Missed BODs, late quotes, and patterns nobody tracks.
Mar 2026
Benchmark We Publish Our Accuracy Numbers. Here's Why.
Why we publish measurement: 3.3M prompts all-time, 38 production prompts in six stages and fifteen families at buildvision.io/benchmark (Q2 2026), and per-family accuracy publishes Q3 2026.
Mar 2026
Data What 100,000 Procurement Workflows Taught Us About Construction Documents
The hardest document types, where accuracy breaks down, and the patterns that emerge across thousands of commercial projects.
Mar 2026
Equipment Sales How Manufacturer Reps Actually Triage Bids (And Where It Breaks)
The daily bid desk routine from inbox to quote. What takes 2.5 hours, where the errors happen, and what changes when the reading is automated.
Mar 2026
Procurement The Real Cost of Manual Equipment Procurement on a $50M Project
Hours, errors, rework, and missed savings. The math on what manual procurement costs and where the money actually goes.
Mar 2026
Procurement The Fee Trap: Why Most GCs Are One Cycle Away From a Profitability Crisis
GC fees have compressed from 5–8% to 1–3% on competitive bids. When equipment decisions eat your entire margin, procurement becomes a survival question.
Mar 2026
Procurement The MEP Procurement Opportunity
Turner can bid 0% fee and still be more profitable than you at 2%. The math on ancillary services reshaping GC economics.
Jan 2026
Industry No Front Door in Construction
Why construction has no single entry point — and what that means for building the next platform.
Mar 2026
Industry Rise of the Super Subs
The construction industry is entering a structural shift that many firms have not fully priced in.
Nov 2025
Industry The Sequential Path: From Margin to Revenue
Why margin compression and revenue expansion aren't competing strategies — they're stacked stages of the same transformation.
Nov 2025
Procore Built a Moat Around the Wrong Castle Jun 2, 2026
Construction project management software no longer sits at the highest-value point in the construction ecosystem.
Analog May 4, 2026
what my knowledge management job at turner taught me about why ai is failing in construction
The Floor or The Ceiling Apr 13, 2026
The structural problem with selling activity
Why ChatGPT Can't Read Your Drawings (And What Can) Apr 8, 2026
Inside the extraction pipeline that reads mechanical schedules, classifies documents, and resolves equipment to real product records.
The Fee Trap Mar 4, 2026
Why Most GCs Are One Cycle Away From a Profitability Crisis
MEP Services Opportunity Jan 25, 2026
Turner can bid 0% fee and still be more profitable than you at 2%. Here's the math on how ancillary services are reshaping GC economics.
How Contractors Can Re-Underwrite Themselves Nov 10, 2025
Contractors should stress test everything about their companies.
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