Here's mine: A construction programme is your methodology expressed through time. The Gantt chart is only the output. The actual work is deciding how the team will deliver the project: - Break the scope into activities with clear owners. - Sequence the work from the required milestones. - Calculate durations using quantities and realistic production rates. - Identify the critical path and low-float activities. - Optimise the work that can actually change the completion date. Crashing critical-path work usually costs more. Fast-tracking it introduces more risk. Doing either to non-critical work will not bring the completion date forward. Do I think a planner should build the programme alone and hand it to the site team? No. The people delivering the project need to help build the methodology and commit to it. This is my attempt to explain it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QahPnqB4UHo

Which model is best at reading and understanding construction drawings? @Josh Turner and I just launched an AI benchmark for construction tasks. If you've not come across a benchmark, it's a way to score AI models. There's benchmarks for software engineering, legal, maths, etc. For our benchmark, we went through multiple sets of large construction drawings and created a database of questions and answers (Very time-consuming). Questions like "how many footings are in the slab" or "what are the cable tray specifications. We then scored each model based on what percentage of questions they answered correctly and the cost of the analysis. So far, we've tested 9 recent mods. GPT 5.6 won. Surprisingly, Opus 5 and 4.8 both beat Fable 5. One caveat: we tested the models via the API, so you would likely get different performance (almost certainly better results) if you used the harness (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, etc.) We'll be running and updating this for every new model that comes out. We will also be adding more domains to our analysis - take-offs, estimating, scheduling, etc. We've got come up with some pretty interesting ways to test them. Check out the results here: https://contractoros.build/benchmarks/

Hey everybody, thought I would kick off a new post for August. What are your goals for this month and what are you trying to get out of the community? Mine are pretty simple and straightforward 1. Keep experimenting with AI and sharing what I'm learning 2. Keep making a ton of youtube videos 3. Keep learning about construction project management and working out the best way to deliver projects and run a construction business Keen to hear what you're goals are and what you want to get out of the community

Many of the files on the Templates (Classroom) are missing. Please help.

I wanted to ask about experiences with Upwork since it seems like a popular platform. I've been at it for about 2-3 weeks now, sending proposals consistently. Already spent $300+ on connects. Results: 1 response, 1 call, zero delivery, zero paid clients. For those who've been through this, is it still a viable option in 2026? Or am I wasting time and money? Would love to hear your honest experiences.