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Research Reports
2026 Annual Preconstruction Benchmarking Report
KEY INSIGHTS: Across all surveyed preconstruction technology categories, a clear maturation cycle is evident. Tools that were heavily in pilot phases in 2025, particularly planning-focused solutions like estimating and scheduling, have largely transitioned to full deployment in 2026. Administrative and supporting workflows are growing more slowly, with adoption still far […]
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 […]
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Top Lists
2026 Preconstruction Top 50 List
Welcome to the 2026 Preconstruction Top 50 List! The Preconstruction Top 50 List was derived from a combination of 2026 Preconstruction Survey data, direct industry research, member conversations & feedback, […]
2026 Mavericks 50 List
The 2023 BuiltWorlds Maverick Awards winners highlights 50 individuals who have acted as trendsetters and innovators in the built world, from architects and engineers to contractors, technologists, influencers, entrepreneurs, and urban designers.
2025 Top 50 Venture & Investment Deals
Welcome to the 2025 Top 50 Venture & Investment Deals List! This list spotlights the most significant publicly announced venture capital deals accelerating technology adoption across the built environment. It […]
2025 Offsite Top 50 List
Welcome to the 2025 Offsite Top 50 List! The Offsite 50 List was derived from a combination of the 2025 Offsite Construction Survey data, direct industry research, member conversations & […]
2025 Venture Investors Top 50
Welcome to the 2025 Top 50 Investors-a showcase of the venture capital (VC) and corporate venture capital (CVC) firms actively shaping technology in construction and real estate. BuiltWorlds has spent […]
2025 Infrastructure Tech Top 50 List
Welcome to the 2025 Infrastructure Tech Top 50! The Infrastructure Tech Top 50 List was derived from a combination of the 2025 Infrastructure Benchmarking Survey data, direct industry research, member […]
2025 Investor Award Winners Announced
BuiltWorlds celebrated its latest Investor Awards at Venture West 2026, recognizing the top venture capitalists in the built environment tech space. The awards, given out annually, acknowledge industry impact throughout the year prior, considering the capital they deploy, but also strategic engagement, ecosystem support, and long-term commitment to advancing innovation […]
Refining Diligence, the ‘Clobbering’ of SaaS, and Other Key Takeaways From Venture West 2026
At Venture West 2026, there was a lot to talk about—shifting standards and expectations, the increasingly nuanced due diligence process, AI’s growing impact, the industry’s evolving opportunities and challenges, and the list goes on—which is no surprise, considering the explosive growth the AEC industry’s venture sector has recently experienced. In […]
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 […]
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Venture East 2022: Learn from Formwork Labs
This past summer, BuiltWorlds and Brick & Mortar Ventures teamed up to create a new construction tech accelerator aimed at helping companies in the ecosystem fast-track their businesses for success. Formwork Labs first initial cohort was comprised of 5 tech focused companies and it was just announced that in 2023, […]
BuiltWorlds Session: Geoffrey Kasselman Partner & SVP, Workplace Strategy, CRG
From the 2022 Americas Summit this past September in Chicago, IL comes a BuiltWorlds Session interview featuring Geoffrey Kasselman, Partner & SVP – Workplace Strategy at CRG – the development arm of ClayCo. During the interview Kasselman explains why he is so excited about technology surrounding digital twins. A digital […]
Demo Drop: Xpanner
From our 2022 Venture East Conference in Miami, FL comes this Demo Drop from Xpanner. CEO & Co-Founder, Henri Lee, delivers his in-person pitch to our panel of judges. The spanner team puts smart construction technology on-site so that you can use it right away without understanding the technology. From design […]
Analyst Call: Venture & Finance – Top Venture Investors of 2022
The State of BuiltWorlds Venture: Venture Investors 50 Analyst Call on Wednesday, December 7th was hosted by BuiltWorlds’ Dan Laboe and featured Vivin Hegde, General Partner at Zacua Ventures, and Najeeb Ahmed, Investment Banking VP at Raymond James. Laboe began the conversation discussing the contents of the BuiltWorlds Venture Investors […]
Demo Drop: Cloudyo
From our 2022 Venture East Conference in Miami this past November comes a demonstration by Dedi Ben Natan, CEO of Cloudyo. Cloudyo is an AI-based platform that delivers personalized, comprehensive and unbiased recommendations for SaaS apps. Cloudyo will also help organizations easily migrate their business functions into the cloud. Cloudyo […]
BuiltWorlds Session: Thai Nguyen, Director, Hensel Phelps
From our 2022 Venture West Conference this past March in Palo Alto, CA comes a sit-down with Thai Nguyen, Director at Hensel Phelps. Hensel Phelps started all the way back in 1937 and has made great strides and recently opened a new district in Oahu, HI. Nguyen explains that although […]