AI in construction: 18% of firms in a BRG survey added staff because of AI and 11% cut jobs

More construction firms in a BRG survey added staff because of AI (18%) than cut jobs because of it (11%), the consulting firm reported on 9 October 2026. BRG's report on AI in construction says nearly seven in ten organisations have invested at least $250,000 in AI over the past two years, but only 15% of executives say AI is fully integrated across their businesses. The authors, a team of BRG managing directors and directors who advise on construction projects, argue that firms lack clear benchmarks for whether that spending improves project results. The numbers are what executives report about their own firms, not a count of jobs, and the survey names no employer, so nothing here enters the AI layoffs tracker. It is a useful counterweight to the office-job headlines: in an industry short of skilled labour, AI so far is changing how teams work more often than it is removing them.