12/10/2026
AI adoption across U.S. construction is rising, but workflow maturity is still catching up.
The 2026 AGC/Sage outlook reports that 61% of U.S. contractors are using AI or plan to increase investment, up from 44% a year earlier. Dodge/CMiC found a similar gap: 87% expect AI to transform construction, yet only 19% have adapted their workflows.
This is where BIM teams need to stay practical.
At Penta Engineering, our BIM team is developing and testing an early-stage AI-assisted workflow alongside Revit. The current focus is on reading drawing sets, tracing extracted information to its source, assisting staged model creation, and supporting quantity and quality checks. Engineers remain responsible for reviewing inputs, resolving unclear information, and approving outputs.
Our view is simple: useful AI in BIM should make work more traceable, verifiable, and efficient. It should never remove engineering judgment from the process.
The real measure of progress is not how much a workflow automates. It is how confidently the project team can verify the result.
Where do you see the most practical use of AI in BIM today?