Articles
Longer reads, written when a week's signal deserves more than a paragraph.
Who carries the float?
Saible's £2.9m trust-account model releases payments to every tier simultaneously, but simultaneous release doesn't create money, it moves the float from the supply chain to the client. Adoption, not technology, is the test.
The AI label on construction's BIM breakthrough is decoration
A peer-reviewed BIM study hit >95% agreement on a deterministic rules engine, not AI. The interoperability problem was never technical — it is 15 years of schema sprawl and vendor lock-in incentives, and no model release dissolves it.
Can six levers really map construction in the age of AI?
A teardown of the Suffolk×MIT whitepaper: Chapter 4's shared data layer is third-party validation of the construction knowledge graph thesis, and the six-lever frame's narrowness maps exactly where the connective layer has to go next.
When the Agent Acts First and Asks Never
PlanRadar shipped AI agents that act with no human approval step on every plan. Two honest readings — productivity through cited drafts, or a liability land grab — and the decision contractors can't defer.
The Use-Case Vacuum: 39% of Construction Firms Can't Name Where AI Goes
The UK's official statistics just exposed construction's real AI problem, and it isn't the one the vendors are selling against. The barrier isn't cost or talent — 39% of firms cannot name a use case.