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BST Global designs, develops and deploys the AEC industry’s first suite of AI-powered project intelligence™ solutions.

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Calling all AEC technology leaders and digital decision makers! We want to hear from you!

We've officially launched our 2027 global AI + Data Survey for the architectural, engineering and environmental consulting industry. This study aims to highlight AI's impact on firms of all sizes. We will use the resulting insights to inform our next industry report, so make your firm is represented!

Download the current report and access this year's survey here: https://t.co/18abHGYFvo.

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Join us in wishing Nathan Kirkman a happy 20th work anniversary!

Nathan, you are vital to this organization. We’re grateful you chose BST Global 20 years ago, and we look forward to a bright future with you on the team!

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To close our third #AISummit, BST Global's CEO, Javier A. Baldor, congratulated this year’s Innovator of the Year Award recipients and thanked everyone who contributed to our largest and most comprehensive event yet.

Outlining some key takeaways, he reflected on the AEC industry’s progress, acknowledged the challenges ahead and emphasized how the global community can move forward by thinking differently, embracing new ideas and working together.

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For the first time at #AISummit, we designed a session specifically to highlight real AI projects in practice that are making waves in AEC.

The AI@Work Showcase featured:
• Manal Alduraibi, AI Lead, and Will Kuehne, Utility Management Solutions Lead at @Ardurra
• Xavier Davy, Technical Director, Buildings at @Egis
• James O'Reilly, Senior Engineer & AI Development Lead at Knight Piésold
• Anthony Wansink, General Manager, Technology and Transformation at Spiire
• Sujan Turlapaty, Chief Digital Information Officer at @Verdantas

These projects showed how AI is already delivering practical value across AEC. The next wave of innovation is well underway!

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The view of the audience from the #AISummit stage: everyone is truly engaged — sharing ideas and asking incisive questions of the speakers and panelists. It's thrilling to watch the conversation unfold live!

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Announcing our 2026 Innovator of the Year Award recipients: Michael Ramos, President of Raymond, Dustin Schafer, Head of Research at Henderson Engineers, and Preston Robinson, Director of Operations Support at Haskell.

You all deserve a big round of applause for your commitment to visionary leadership, advancing innovation across AEC and making a meaningful impact on the industry.

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Back by popular demand, our Voice of the Client panel featured AEC firm representatives Brandon Milner, Chief Information Officer at @EllisDon, and Chris Madan, Vice President, Customer Digital Solutions & Product & Head of @TELUS Sovereign AI Factories at TELUS.

They opened the session by discussing how their expectations of their partner firms have evolved, what firms are doing to meet those expectations, and how AI and data factor into their decisions to partner with other firms on projects. They also shared their personal experiences with AI, including what it’s like to see both sides of the equation — building AI tools and facilities, and investing in startups that do the same. It was a particularly revealing session.

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According to Philip Townsend, Managing Director & CTO at @Accenture, AEC firms are sitting on piles of data with no idea how to use it proactively. In his presentation, “Building Confidence in AI-Driven Capital Projects,” Philip revealed that AI’s power lies in its ability to spotlight emerging risks and opportunities early enough to affect outcomes.

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It’s not every day you get to see what goes on behind the scenes at a company like @GHDspeaks!

In his #AISummit presentation, “A Year Living on the Frontier: What We Are Learning as a Frontier Firm,” CIO Paul Murphy shared what happens when a multinational design firm moves out of its comfort zone for a full year.

Paul pulled back the curtain on an eye-opening journey in which the firm explored everything from how teams could be using AI more intentionally to what the future holds.

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The “Own Your AI Strategy: Moving From Reactive Adoption to Intentional Leadership” panel featured @CannonDesign CIO Brooke Peschel, @HGA CIO Michele Stanton, @HKSArchitects Chairman & CEO Heath May, and @NBBJDesign Technology Futures Director Kristen Forward.

They proposed that AEC firms can overcome organizational obstacles to AI adoption by making it a strategic priority, strengthening accountability and investing for long-term competitive advantage. One key to driving change at their firms has been to have honest conversations with leadership and creating sustainable value for all stakeholders.

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In his keynote, “AI at the Frontier,” Dr. Will Cavendish, @Arup’s Global Digital Services Leader, revealed how AI is already reshaping the built environment — from the earliest stages of planning and design through construction, operations and the project lifecycle. He showed real examples of AI’s power to augment human intelligence and help engineers solve complex infrastructure and environmental problems. The next wave of frontier models is already changing how teams work.

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After a day of exceptional presentations and panel discussions, #AISummit attendees gathered over cocktails and dinner, sharing takeaways, connecting with colleagues and enjoying the evening.

The food was divine, the entertainment lively and the atmosphere exhilarating!

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During our first ever Voice of Industry Change panel, @AWS's Enrico Chionna, @OpenAI's Matt Jankow, and @Sequoia Capital’s Avon Puri tackled hot-button AI questions. They discussed what’s holding the AEC industry back, what separates true adopters from experimenters, and what’s impossible today that will be possible in the next five years.

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AEC firms can achieve real business outcomes with AI, and Trilon CIO David Felker proved it at #AISummit!

David brought the energy (and a blast from the past) with his presentation, “Stop Talking About AI & Start Building It” — opening up Trilon’s AI transformation playbook to reveal the operating model, process mapping, team structure and other factors behind the firm’s success.

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In his eye-opening presentation, “Automate the Task to Elevate the Outcome: Redesigning AEC Workflows Around Client Value,” Niels Schenk, Global Digital Product & AI Director at @ArcadisGlobal, showed #AISummit attendees how AEC firms can create opportunities with scalable, AI-supported workflows that fit their clients’ existing technology environments.

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Namitha Vinay, AI & Information Leader at @MottMacDonald, shared what the company has learned about scaling AI from its own technology transformation journey.

In her presentation, “From AI Pilots to Enterprise Intelligence: What We Learned Scaling AI Across Mott MacDonald,” she explained that it takes more than technology to move from trial to enterprise-wide adoption and showed us that information, context, and organizational knowledge are the foundation that helps teams make better decisions.

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How can AEC firms keep up when volume is growing faster than capacity? In her #AISummit presentation, “Beyond Time & Materials: Rewiring AEC Delivery & Commercial Models for the AI Era,” Lesley Waud, CDO at @AtkinsRealis, argued that firms must stop working the way they have for the last four decades. She showed that by harnessing AI for outcomes instead of effort, firms can unlock big value for themselves and their clients. Her closing challenge: lead the way by driving the change our industry needs.