Newsletter I January 2026

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Supercharge Post-OBBBA Year-End Tax Planning

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) made several provisions of 2017’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) permanent and introduced new provisions with potential advantages for the construction industry. To make the most of the tax benefits now available under OBBBA, take a fresh look at your tax strategies. Start to unlock savings by paying particular attention to the language within your contracts.

Applying AI on construction jobsites: Where it actually delivers value

Construction teams don’t need another tool that promises everything and delivers friction. They need AI that fits how work actually gets done, supporting the daily rhythms of field coordination, cost tracking, and project oversight without adding complexity.

The gap between AI’s potential and construction’s reality isn’t about the technology. It’s about alignment. Most AI tools fail because they don’t account for how foremen plan work, how superintendents track progres,s or how project managers reconcile costs. Practical AI succeeds by strengthening these existing workflows instead of replacing them.

Why ChatGPT (still) needs a construction lawyer

Two and a half years ago, Construction Dive asked ChatGPT, OpenAI’s large language model, to generate a construction contract on a design-bid-build job for a 600-unit, mixed-use project in San Jose, California. The document, attorneys said, could be legally enforceable — it addressed scope of work, payment terms, a termination clause and sections on indemnification, insurance and change orders.

What Construction Business Owners Can Expect for the Year Ahead

As the economy enters a new year, the construction industry can expect a bracing but generally supportive operating environment. “The U.S. economy is holding up admirably well despite a major trade shock caused by tariffs,” said Bernard Yaros Jr., lead U.S. economist at Oxford Economics (oxfordeconomics.com). “We look for an acceleration in growth in 2026 as stimulus from the One Big Beautiful Bill gets underway.”

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