Estimate the value AI assistants may bring to your portfolio.

Adjust the parameters to match your operation. Every assumption is editable. Figures are illustrative estimates only, not a guarantee or quote.

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Portfolio Parameters

Active concurrent projects

260

Your input.

Field staff doing admin, per site

Your input. Default 2 (e.g. one superintendent + one PM).

Admin / info-search hrs per person, per week

1 h15 h

Default 5.5 h, FMI (2018) average time spent looking for project data.

Fully burdened labour rate

$40/hr$120/hr

Default $56 ≈ $42.25 Toronto median (Job Bank) + 32.5% burden, midpoint of 25–40%.

Admin time reduction with AI assistants

0%60%

Default 30%: our assumption, adjust to your experience. Reference: 40% in a controlled writing-task study.

Risk & Rework Mitigation

Avg. project contract value

$5M$150M

Your input.

Rework baseline, % of contract

2%20%

Default 5%, CII-database average direct rework; CII range 2–20%.

Estimated rework reduction

0%25%

Default 2.5%: our assumption, deliberately conservative, adjust to your experience.

Schedule Delay

Delay-cost baseline, % of contract

0%5%

Default 1.8% = 20% schedule overrun (McKinsey) × 9% general conditions (midpoint of 6–12%).

Estimated delay-cost reduction

0%25%

Default 5%: our assumption, adjust to your experience.

Admin & paperwork savings

Rework & claim risk avoidance

Schedule delay avoided

Estimated annual value by category

Estimated, CAD per year

Executive summary for your pitch deck

How this is calculated

Admin & paperwork savings = projects × field staff per site × admin hrs per person per week × 52 × admin reduction % × labour rate.

Rework avoidance = projects × avg. contract value × rework baseline % × rework reduction %.

Schedule delay avoided = projects × avg. contract value × delay-cost baseline % × delay reduction %.

Total estimated annual value = admin savings + rework avoidance + schedule delay avoided. Value per project = total ÷ active projects.

Default assumptions (typical published figures)
• Admin time: 5.5 h/week per team member, FMI's average time spent looking for project data [1]. Field staff per site (default 2) is your input.
• Labour rate: $56/hr = $42.25/hr Toronto-region median for general construction supervisors [4] + 32.5% burden, the midpoint of the commonly cited 25–40% construction range [5].
• Rework baseline: 5% of contract value, the average direct rework cost in CII-database research [3]; CII cites a 2–20% range on typical projects [2]. FMI attributes 48% of U.S. rework to poor project data and miscommunication [1].
• Delay-cost baseline: 1.8% of contract value = a 20% schedule overrun (McKinsey: large capital projects typically take 20% longer than planned [7]) × 9% general conditions (midpoint of the 6–12% typical for commercial jobs [8]). Time-related site overhead is only one part of delay cost; this excludes liquidated damages and financing.
• Reductions (admin 30%, rework 2.5%, delay 5%): our assumptions, adjust to your experience. We found no independent construction-specific study for these. For reference, a controlled study of professional writing tasks measured 40% less time with an AI assistant [6]; field documentation may differ.
• Industry benchmarks are published ranges, not our data. Large-project figures may overstate typical commercial work.

Sources
1. FMI for PlanGrid, Construction Disconnected (2018)
2. Construction Industry Institute, A Guide to Construction Rework Reduction (RT-252, 2011)
3. Hwang, Thomas, Haas & Caldas, Measuring the Impact of Rework on Construction Cost Performance, ASCE J. Constr. Eng. Mgmt. (2009)
4. Job Bank (Government of Canada), General Construction Supervisor wages, Toronto Region
5. Miter, Labor burden in construction (25–40% range)
6. Noy & Zhang, Experimental evidence on the productivity effects of generative AI, Science (2023); MIT News summary
7. McKinsey, Optimizing performance in infrastructure project delivery (2017)
8. Ogletree, Hybrid cost-plus contracting with lump-sum general conditions (2018)

AI assistants help draft daily logs and reports, look up documents, and flag possible coordination and safety issues for your team to review. Estimates only, not a guarantee or quote.

Human in the loop. AI assistants draft daily logs and reports and help flag coordination and safety issues; your team reviews and approves everything before it goes out. Estimates only, not a guarantee or quote. Results vary by team, scope and adoption.