A construction project can comply perfectly with an owner's standards on paper and still end up with the wrong product installed in the building. Why? Because design compliance and construction compliance are often treated as separate processes. They shouldn't be. The Requirement Starts Upstream Consider a relatively simple product such as paint. The owner's standards may establish acceptable manufacturers, sustainability requirements or performance criteria. The project spec

Universities, healthcare systems and other large building owners often maintain extensive internal design standards. They exist for good reasons. An institution may have decades of experience operating hundreds of buildings. It knows which equipment performs reliably, which materials cause maintenance problems, which systems its facilities teams can support, and which design decisions create unnecessary operating costs. That knowledge gets turned into design guidelines, techn

One of the biggest misconceptions in sustainability compliance is that Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) are simple documents. They are not. While extracting data from a single-product EPD can often be straightforward, many manufacturers publish multi-variant EPDs that cover dozens—or even hundreds—of product configurations within a single document. In these cases, identifying the correct sustainability values requires far more than finding a number on a page. The Hid

Why Core Runway Adopted This Architecture in Release 4.71 Traditional search systems were built for a different era. They were designed to return links, rank pages based on keywords, and leave the human user to do the hard work of deciding what matters. That model no longer fits modern business workflows. When teams need accurate answers, structured data, or compliance-grade outputs, simply returning ten blue links is inefficient. What matters now is finding the right informa

One of the biggest barriers to adopting AI in compliance workflows isn’t capability — it’s trust. Construction teams, environmental consultants, and compliance officers aren’t just asking: “Can AI extract the data?” They’re asking: “Can I prove it’s right?” Today, we’re introducing a major step forward. 🔍 Verifiable AI Extraction — Now Live in Core Runway Core Runway now automatically marks up source PDFs after data extraction , showing: Exactly where each data point came fr

As LEED continues to evolve, the shift from LEED v4.1 to LEED v5 represents more than just incremental updates—it reflects a fundamental change in how sustainability is measured, verified, and reported during construction. For general contractors, sustainability consultants, and project teams, the biggest impact isn’t just what needs to be reported—but how much , how often , and how connected that reporting must be. Below is a practical breakdown of how construction-phase r

The Quiet Regulation That’s About to Disrupt Construction Most General Contractors aren’t ready for CALGreen 2026. Not because they don’t care about sustainability—but because the reporting burden is about to increase significantly , and current workflows (spreadsheets, email chains, disconnected vendors) simply won’t hold up. The result? Delays, failed compliance checks, and in some cases, meaningful financial penalties . What’s Actually Changing in CALGreen 2026 While previ

For years, the AEC industry has tried to solve compliance with SaaS. It hasn’t worked. Not because the software is bad—but because the architecture is wrong for the problem . LEED, CALGreen, and other regulatory frameworks aren’t database problems.They’re document-heavy, constantly evolving, high-stakes workflows . And that’s exactly where traditional SaaS breaks. A new model is emerging— agentic AI —and it’s not just better.It ’s fundamentally different. The Problem: SaaS Wa