Thai Nguyen has personal experience with tracking jobsite progress.
Nguyen, director of innovation for Diverge, the investment arm of Hensel Phelps, once had to track a deluge of photos with different names and timestamps to monitor jobsite progress.
But in 2023, Hensel Phelps started a pilot with progress-tracking platform Track3D on a project in Denver. Since then, the contractor has leveraged t...
The narrative presents a compelling case for AI-driven construction monitoring, but it’s worth examining the underlying assumptions and potential biases. The strongest version of this story highlights genuine efficiency gains—reduced manual labor, cost savings, and real-time data access—all critical in an industry facing labor shortages. However, the account leans heavily on Hensel Phelps' perspective, with no independent verification of the claimed savings or user adoption challenges. The absen...
