Construction, once reliant on fragmented workflows and manual coordination, can now operate through connected systems with real-time visibility across every stage of a project. This change in how information moves and decisions are made is reflected in the industry’s overall growth and renewed investor confidence. In 2024, global investment in construction technology climbed to $2.265 billion, a 33% increase from the previous year.
However, with so many companies racing to modernize every layer of the construction process, the landscape has become crowded and highly specialized. Some companies focus on data intelligence, others on automation or workforce management, but only a few have managed to create real, lasting impact.
The following nine companies represent the most influential forces shaping construction technology in 2025.
Sourgum
Sourgum operates an intelligence platform for waste and recycling across commercial, construction, and industrial projects in the United States. The company combines on-demand dumpster rentals, recurring services, and software that delivers full visibility into every pickup, invoice, and material stream.
Sourgum’s system unifies more than 5,000 licensed haulers and has serviced millions of locations nationwide, enabling residents and business leaders to manage local waste removal from a single interface. The platform also supports recycling and sustainability tracking, giving users data on diversion rates and emissions that can feed into ESG reporting.
Sourgum’s model is especially valuable for companies that operate across multiple states, since they no longer need to manage separate hauler contracts, inconsistent pricing, or paper-based invoicing. Everything, from scheduling to billing to sustainability reporting, runs through one technology-driven platform. Place an order online or reach our team directly at 732-366-9355 for support.
Autodesk Construction Cloud
Few names are as synonymous with construction technology as Autodesk. They have long been the bridge between digital design and real-world construction, and its Construction Cloud suite brings that full circle. Combining tools like BIM 360, PlanGrid, and BuildingConnected, Autodesk gives project teams a single ecosystem for collaboration, design coordination, and progress tracking.
Procore Technologies
Procore is a construction management platform used to coordinate day-to-day project work. It brings RFIs, submittals, schedules, budgets, and field reports into one environment so office and site teams are looking at the same information. Essentially, Procore allows crews to record what happens in the field and project managers can act on it without delay.
Bentley Systems
Where Autodesk leads in building design, Bentley Systems dominates infrastructure. Its tools like MicroStation, SYNCHRO, and the iTwin digital twin platform are behind many of the world’s most complex rail, bridge, and energy projects.
Bentley's software also allows owners to monitor and maintain infrastructure through the entire life cycle. That means bridge operators, rail networks, and utilities can track structural health, schedule repairs, and model the impact of future changes using the same data set that guided the original build.
Trimble Inc.
Trimble’s systems are what let a highway or rail project move from design drawings to automated machine control without translation errors. Trimble’s technology turns digital models into precise, buildable instructions that machines and crews can follow on site.
Its GPS and laser-guided systems control grading equipment, guide layout, and capture as-built conditions with millimeter accuracy. That data then loops back into software like Tekla and Quadri, keeping planners and engineers working from the same ground truth.
ALICE Technologies
ALICE Technologies builds software that treats construction schedules as living systems instead of static spreadsheets. Its algorithm can test thousands of build sequences in minutes, showing project managers how different choices in labor, equipment, or sequencing affect time and cost. Rather than producing a single baseline schedule, ALICE generates a range of workable options and recalculates them when conditions change.
Since its founding, ALICE has raised about $60 million in venture funding and is now used by large engineering and construction firms on complex infrastructure and industrial projects.
Buildertrend
Founded in 2006 in Omaha, Nebraska, Buildertrend develops cloud-based construction management software for residential builders, remodelers, and specialty contractors. The platform combines project scheduling, cost tracking, document management, and client communication in one system. It is designed to handle the day-to-day coordination of small and mid-size construction firms that manage multiple jobs simultaneously.
Buildertrend has become one of the most widely used platforms in the North American homebuilding market, supporting tens of thousands of projects each year and integrating with accounting tools such as QuickBooks and Xero to streamline financial reporting.
Bridgit Bench
Bridgit Bench’s platform centralizes information about project staffing, employee availability, and skill sets, allowing operations teams to plan workloads months ahead and spot conflicts before they impact schedules.
Bridgit’s main focus is on solving the workforce allocation problem. Instead of managing crews through spreadsheets or ad-hoc communication, companies use Bridgit Bench to see who is working where, when individuals become available, and how shifting project timelines will affect staffing needs.
Adopted by many of the ENR Top 400 Contractors, Bridgit Bench has become a reference point for workforce visibility across North America.
Access COINS
Access COINS is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system designed specifically for the construction industry. Originally developed in the United Kingdom in the 1980s and now part of The Access Group, the platform integrates financial management, procurement, project costing, payroll, and compliance into a single database.
In recent years, COINS has expanded its reporting and forecasting tools, adding AI-based analytics and customizable dashboards. It remains one of the most widely used construction ERP systems in the UK and Europe, serving national house builders and infrastructure contractors that require a single, transparent view of their financial and operational performance.
