On Wednesday, July 16, 2025, a worker inside a residential building under construction in Las Palmas neighborhood of Medeline, Columbia.
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Homebuilding is one of the slowest industries for long -term modernization, and commercial construction is not far behind. Its scale is very large, and yet it is one of the lowest digital industries in the world.
Lack of innovation in commercial technology contributes to older documentation and errors in the tasks that then have to be re -prepared with administrative drags. It is a major drain on time, budget and materials and can cause expensive delays and unnecessary environmental waste.
Everyone said, it contributes to about $ 1 trillion every year, according to the August 2024 report. McInse Global InstituteHistorically, construction companies, according to the report, spent less than 1% revenue on automotive and aerospace usually less than one third.
Sarah Buhanar learned all this in a difficult way. A carpenter’s daughter in Austria, she came to America to learn construction and did her work to foreman, superintendent and ultimately the contractor.
“At the peak, I was working for me at $ 400 million high, 600 people were working for me. And on that specific construction side, I had a deadly, which is in construction, unfortunately, much, much,” he said. “But I was, I think, too small, and could not fully process what was happening.”
So Buhanar decided to create a health and safety app, which is switching a career on construction software and construction techniques from construction. A decade later, with the spread of AI, he launched Trunk equipmentA generous AI platform is trained on the actual construction workflows. It automatically automatically automatically indicates the project risks and simplifies documents.
“We take all the unarmed documents at a construction site, and we use different AI and machine learning tools for reorganization,” Buchanar explained, given that an average high-growing project in New York City, for a cost of about half a billion dollars, would require a document of about 3.5 million pages.
“Those pages change every single day, because when you start construction, the plan does not end,” Buchanar said.
Therefore contractors often obtain conflicting orders and cannot find documents to clarify. For example, install an emergency exit door. A data set says that it requires electricity, but there is no outlet in the electrical picture. Anomalies in the data, say Buhanar, not only waste money, but also contribute to carbon emissions due to work disabilities.
The technique of trunk tools can process millions of unaccounted documents from blueprint to drawing to schedule and specs, and then can return them into a clear format that workers can better follow. Startup is partnered with Microsoft to integrate technology into a suit of company options.
Trunk Tools announced just $ 40 million series B funding round, with the leadership of global software investor Insight Partners, with Redpoint Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, Stepstone, Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures and Prudence. This investment brings its total funds to $ 70 million.
