Hey team, glad to connect with this group. I’m Sedolf, a surveyor and engineering management student specializing in UAV photogrammetry and LiDAR site mapping. As construction managers, you're constantly caught between tight schedules and messy site realities. One workflow we've been implementing to cut down on RFIs is generating highly accurate 3D point clouds of the raw site and overlaying the engineer's CAD/BIM model directly on top of it on Day One. On a recent warehouse project in Ghana, doing this allowed us to spot a structural layout clash with an existing utility corridor that the original design team completely missed on their flat drawings. Catching it digitally saved about two weeks of potential downtime and zero-dollar rework. For those running active jobs right now: What is the most frustrating design error you’ve had to solve in the field this year that could have been caught with better upfront site data?

Is anyone here building an AI agent that can answer questions directly from construction contract documents and drawing sets? I'm looking beyond simply using Claude or Claude-based retrieval, as it tends to hallucinate and struggles with projects that have 10+ drawing/specification sets and cross-document reasoning. If you're building a custom AI agent for this use case, I'd love to connect and exchange ideas.