It’s been a wild year in the construction technology sector.

The advent of generative AI received the most attention, as contractors and experts grappled with the implications of large language models and machine learning. 

But AI wasn’t the only story — readers also pored over startup competition news, fast-moving information on cyberattacks in the construction sector, contractors jockeying to get into the contech funding space and waves of government funding for digitalization and and innovation in the building fields.

From ChatGPT to robots and contech funding rounds, here are the construction technology stories that were most popular with readers this year.