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Research Reports
Q4 2025 Venture Report: State of Built World Venture Markets
Table of Contents Introduction Overarching Built Environment Venture Trends Macro Landscape U.S. Construction Spending European Construction Volume Interest Rates Investment Trends by Stage Geographic Segmentation Investment Trends by Country Investment Trends by City Investment Trends Segmented by BuiltWorlds’ Technology Subcategory Tech Classification System Construction Tech Building Tech Infrastructure Tech AI/ML […]
2025 Annual Offsite Construction Benchmarking Report
Overview BuiltWorlds Benchmarking Program is a premier industry tool, designed to help built world innovation teams and professionals learn, measure, and inform decision making as it relates to technology solutions, research, development, and strategy across nearly 40 technology solution and topic areas. This annual report examines how offsite construction continues […]
Q3 2025 Venture Report: State of Built World Venture Markets
Table of Contents Introduction Overarching Built Environment Venture Trends Macro Landscape U.S. Construction Spending European Construction Volume Interest Rates Investment Trends by Stage Geographic Segmentation Investment Trends by Country Investment Trends by City Investment Trends Segmented by BuiltWorlds’ Technology Subcategory Tech Classification System Construction Tech Building Tech Infrastructure Tech AI/ML […]
2025 Annual AI Benchmarking Report
Overview BuiltWorlds’ Benchmarking Program is a premier industry tool, purpose-built to help built world innovators learn, measure, and make decisions related to technology solutions, research & development, and innovation strategies across nearly 40 technology solution and topic areas. This report provides a holistic overview of the current state of AI […]
Q2 2025 Venture Report: State of Built World Venture Markets
Table of Contents Introduction Overarching Built Environment Venture Trends Macro Landscape U.S. Construction Spending European Construction Volume Interest Rates Investment Trends by Stage Geographic Segmentation Investment Trends by Country Investment Trends by City Investment Trends Segmented by BuiltWorlds’ Technology Subcategory Tech Classification System Construction Tech Building Tech Infrastructure Tech AI/ML […]
2025 Annual Equipment & Robotics Benchmarking Report
Overview BuiltWorlds’ Benchmarking Program is a premier industry tool, purpose-built to help built world innovators learn, measure, and make decisions related to technology solutions, research & development, and innovation strategies across nearly 40 technology solution and topic areas. This annual report explores how developments in equipment, machinery, and related technologies […]
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Top Lists
2020 Adoption Advisors List
All through the month of October we have been looking at how companies have been organizing to be adapt successful to the many changes emerging technology is fueling in the […]
2020 Adoption Leaders 50 List
As The Industry Tech Adopter Ranks Grow, This Year’s List Focuses Exclusively on AEC Adoption Leaders Much has changed since we first launched our Adoption Leaders Top List back in […]
The Global 50: Open Innovation Across Continents for Buildings & Infrastructure’s Digital Transformation
Historically, in the Buildings and Infrastructure industry, AEC and Real Estate Companies have been focused on their own home regions. However, with rising capital investment, a greater sense of urgency […]
Pre-Construction 50: Bidding, Scheduling, Pre-Qualification, Value Engineering, Modeling and Simulation
The areas of Bid Management and Pre-Qualifications, Estimating, Scheduling, Modeling & Simulation, or Value Engineering and Life Cycle Analysis have seen significant growth in recent years. Companies like BuildingConnected, ALICE […]
2020 Smart Jobsite 50 List
For more in-depth analysis on the technology making the construction jobsite safer, smarter, and more efficient, access the 2020 BuiltWorlds Construction Technology Report (available for BuiltWorlds Members). SEARCH THE BUILTWORLDS […]
2020 Infrastructure Tech 50 List
Welcome to the 2020 Infrastructure Tech 50 List! The Infrastructure Tech 50 List features solutions specifically addressing the planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of the Built Worlds’ infrastructure assets such […]
Industry at a Glance: Data Center Momentum Set to Cool in 2026
As far as data goes, we now have a pretty good sense of the U.S. construction industry’s performance in 2025, with mostly finalized numbers having been published. Employment was down slightly year over year (as was unemployment), the number of job openings has raised drastically, and momentum is experiencing a […]
AI Transforms Visual Construction Data into Meaningful Jobsite Intelligence
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of BuiltWorlds. Contractors face many headwinds in pursuit of opportunity, from economic volatility, supply chain challenges, and evolving customer and workforce expectations. Succeeding in this constantly shifting […]
5 Key Takeaways From the 2026 AI/ML Conference
Artificial intelligence has been described as the “most transformational technology in human history.” It’s also been called a “societal-scale risk,” one that potentially endangers humanity’s very existence. Whether revolutionary or existentially threatening, there is no debate about one thing: AI has awesome potential. At the 2026 AI/ML Conference, we challenged […]
Getting AI to Work for You: A Q&A With Document Crunch VP of Product Chris Bruner
Chris Bruner has had an extraordinary career over the last two decades. From his role as an analyst at the widely respected McKinsey & Company to co-founding the educational startup Academic Earth to a host of senior project management roles for companies like Zuora, Vivun and now Document Crunch, where […]
Investing in AI: Q&A With Building Ventures Principal Mayra Arntz
Growing up in Peru, Building Ventures Principal Mayra Arntz got her first taste of the industry watching her father operate his construction business building bridges and roads. “I not only learned about the work in the field,” Arntz recalled, “but also how the company is managed—bids, bonds, how to work […]
Formwork Labs Announces Its 5th Cohort
Formwork Labs is an accelerator program for early stage AEC industry startups. Since 2022 they’ve been helping to build the foundation for the next generation of construction innovation and over the course of the three-month program, startups participate in expert-led educational sessions, connect with industry mentors, attend BuiltWorlds Venture West, […]
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Keynote Fireside Chat With Brick & Mortar Ventures – Venture West 2026
BuiltWorlds’ 2026 Venture West kicked off with an engaging keynote fireside chat between Brick & Mortar Ventures Founder & Managing Director Darren Bechtel and General Partner Kaustubh Pandya, moderated by BuiltWorlds CEO Rosemarie Lipman. Nearly ten years on from Brick & Mortar’s founding, Bechtel reflected on how venture in AEC […]
Tokyo Global Summit 2025 – How Are Global Leaders Fostering Collaboration and Open Innovation in the Built World?
Collaboration and open innovation are becoming essential drivers of progress in the built world, breaking down silos to accelerate problem-solving and technological adoption. In this session, representatives from the BuiltWorlds Global Innovators List shared how they are forging cross-industry partnerships, building open ecosystems, and co-developing solutions that address shared challenges. […]
Infrastructure Conference 2025 – Optimizing the Total Cost of Ownership of Roads, Bridges and Transportation Assets
This session examinee how improving data flow and interoperability across stakeholders can drive greater efficiency, security, and value in heavy civil and capital-intensive projects. Learn how leveraging field and equipment data, along with initiatives like Every Day Counts, is transforming roles, enhancing quality, and enabling incremental improvements throughout project lifecycles.
Betting on Climate Tech: Examining the Evolution of Venture Activity in the Climate Tech Space – BuiltWorlds Conversations
In this installment of BuiltWorlds Conversations, we sit down with VoLo Earth Venture Partner & COO Elaine Hsieh, who’s had an absolutely storied career that has included roles at the US Department of Energy’s loan program office, the US under secretary for infrastructure, the US Green Building Council, RMI, Generate […]
Investing in the AI Era: A VC Perspective – AI/ML Conference 2026
As AI matures from a “frontier experiment” to a foundational layer, this panel of all-women investors met at the recent BuiltWorlds AI/ML Conference to discuss the potential of vertical AI within the construction sector. Covering the full spectrum from seed to growth, these experts explored the shifting VC dynamics of […]
Demo Drop: CALMFLOOR
Engineered Vibration Solutions CEO Paul Reynolds pitched the company’s CALMFLOOR solution, a patented active mass dampner solution for floor vibration control. CALMFLOOR reduces floor vibration to lab-level sensitivity standards, transforming any floor vibration performance and its building’s value and embodied carbon. CALMFLOOR aims to be the low-cost, low-carbon solution that […]