Pioneering AI for AEC: Winning the Robin Jones Award & CIOB Rising Star Recognition

Industry Recognition for Construction AI Innovation

Receiving external validation from established construction institutes reinforces the impact digital transformation can bring to traditional engineering workflows.

1. Winning the Robin Jones Award

The Robin Jones Award honors outstanding engineering inventions and practical technological contributions. Winning this accolade recognized Concolabs' pioneering work in combining deep learning algorithms with quantity surveying principles to generate automated bill of quantities and legal compliance engines.

2. CIOB Rising Star & YouthInnovate Recognition

Being named a CIOB Rising Star by the Chartered Institute of Building and receiving the YouthInnovate Award highlighted the growing appetite among global construction bodies to embrace young tech founders driving industry modernization.

3. Key Lessons for Construction Tech Founders

• Ground AI in Domain Expertise: Generic LLMs fall short in specialized fields like FIDIC contracts or NRM2 quantity takeoff. Domain-tailored AI is non-negotiable.
• Prioritize Verifiability: Every commercial estimate or legal notice draft produced by software must be 100% traceable back to source drawings or contract clauses.
• Design for Field Usability: Complex technology must present intuitive, simple interfaces for busy site managers and commercial directors.

Read more about Concolabs' mission and explore our enterprise software suite.