As construction technology providers continue to invest in AI-enabled workflows, contractors continue to demand greater interoperability between the cloud platforms they use, as well as jobsite-centric hardware and software integrations.
At its annual Dimensions user conference in Las Vegas, held November 10-12, hardware and software provider Trimble announced an expansion of the Trimble Marketplace, its online catalog of more than 100 integrations, applications and verified extensions designed to extend Trimble’s connectivity to third-party software. The updates specifically automate workflows for the Trimble Connect cloud collaboration platform and Trimble ProjectSight project management software. The marketplace can be directly integrated with Trimble’s Works Manager project management platform.
Trimble executives emphasized to the 4,000 attendees that artificial intelligence was now a mature part of Trimble’s various platforms, showing a review of the presentation of an AI agent co-developed with contractor Hensel Phelps to automate the often time-intensive process. Trimble CEO Rob Painter said Hensel Phelps did this through early access to the Trimble AI Studio, a new release expected in 2026 that will allow Trimble users to develop their own AI agents.
“Five years ago we were doing a lot of AI,” says Mark Schwartz, Trimble’s senior vice president of AECO solutions. “It’s changed because we’ve added generative AI, but we always had the data from the field, and connecting it to the office and bringing it back to the field was always our goal.”
Schwartz said Trimble’s data collection from surveys and site scans, along with all of its other point solutions, gives the company a natural advantage when creating integrations for data management between projects. “All this data is connected to the back office so that it becomes design information, redesign information, actionable information in the GIS,” he explained.
JE Dunn CIO John Jacobs said that by using a Trimble Connect workflow, the company has achieved a 20% savings through its self-executing equipment on concrete foundation placements, approximately 700 cubic metres.
One of the major AI-based products that Trimble announced was outside of its construction segment. Mine Insights is a cloud-based mining analytics application that provides AI-based insights to mining and quarry professionals to optimize surveying, drilling, blasting and geotechnical workflows. Although not directly a construction product, its knowledge of earthmoving could be used in heavy civil works that require moving a large amount of dirt, such as road and tunnel projects. Mine Insights will be available in late 2025.
