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Mach9 adds drone and aerial LiDAR to its AI survey drafting, and Langan says it cut delivery time about 40%
Mach9's web-based AI CAD tool now drafts linework, classified point clouds and ground surfaces from drone, helicopter and plane scans.
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Construction employment slipped by 3,000 in October as residential specialty trade contractors cut 15,200 jobs
BLS says construction employment fell by 3,000 to 8,367,000 in October 2026 as residential specialty trade contractors cut 15,200 jobs.
8,367 October 2026 · -0.0% on the month · +1.5% on the year
Construction employment held near its 25-month high in October
All employees, construction, thousands, seasonally adjusted
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How to weigh crew hours by BLS fatal injury rates, from roofers at 48.7 to electricians at 5.3
BLS fatal injury rates by trade turn a contractor's hours by occupation into a blended rate that shows which crews carry its fatality exposure.
AI
Shackleton AI launches agents that draft RFIs and chase overdue submittals, with $1 billion of projects on its platform
Shackleton puts bids, budgets, RFIs, submittals and field reports in one system, and its AI agents draft RFIs, chase submittals and write daily reports.
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How to plan winter crew hours from wind chill and the ACGIH warm-up schedule, with a steel erection example
The NWS wind chill formula and the ACGIH work/warm-up schedule turn a cold-day forecast into break minutes and crew hours a contractor can budget.
AI
AI cross-check of structural calculations against rebar schedules found 253 errors, 29 of them critical, on a 19-story Seoul apartment building
A Seoul research team's AI reads a structural calculation package and the structural drawings, matches each beam and column, and flags where they disagree.
Data
Construction job openings rose 14% to 298,000 in September as quits reached 198,000, the most in 25 months
BLS says construction job openings rose to 298,000 in September 2026 from a revised 262,000 in August, and quits rose to 198,000.
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