Gilbane Building Company Partners with Trunk Tools for National Rollout of TrunkText

Gilbane Building Company and Trunk Tools have rolled out the Trunk Tools’ field-first AI solution TrunkText. The general contractor has signed on to expand across the U.S. and will scale the platform beginning with 10 projects representing its diverse market sector portfolio including healthcare, commercial, sports & entertainment and institutional projects. This partnership represents a significant opportunity to streamline operations, enhance efficiency and boost productivity for Gilbane.

Trunk Tools leverages AI to structure mountains of unstructured data, automate workflows and augment worker productivity. This brain powers an army of AI-based agents: from identifying data discrepancies to tracking schedule misses automatically, Trunk Tools’ AI workflows are augmenting construction professionals’ intelligence and productivity. Its flagship AI agent, TrunkText, allows field workers to ask questions about their project documents, receiving answers and supporting documentation in seconds.

The construction industry faces challenges with information management and productivity, costing the industry $~845 billion annually from data inconsistencies. Construction data is notoriously convoluted due to the large number of stakeholders and the intricacies of building designs; an average skyscraper project has over 3 million pages of unstructured data. The Trunk Tools and Gilbane partnership provides the company with a solution that optimizes document retrieval and management, ensuring projects stay on schedule and within budget and relieving stress and pressure from onsite personnel.

Andy Roy, a Gilbane Building Company senior superintendent who has leveraged Trunk Tools since 2023 on a large, complex construction project states, “Trunk Tools showed that it can help our teams increase efficiency and save significant time by preventing rework. With TrunkText doing the ‘document digging’ for me, I can work more effectively and be more responsive in the field.”

Source: Gilbane Building Company