Biography
🏗️ About Paul Hedgepath
Paul Hedgepath is a construction technology leader with more than 25 years of experience across design, construction, and project delivery. He has contributed to more than 100 projects across healthcare, higher education, aviation, hospitality, mission-critical, and commercial sectors.
Today, Paul helps construction teams apply emerging technology and AI to real project workflows. His work focuses on turning fragmented project information into clearer decisions, better coordination, and more practical execution in the field.
🤖 AI & Construction Technology Expertise
Paul helps contractors, owners, and project teams use technology to improve the way projects are planned, coordinated, and delivered. His background includes Building Information Modeling, VDC, laser scanning, drones, 360° documentation, construction management platforms, and agentic AI workflows.
His current work focuses on AI agents, project intelligence, workflow automation, and human-in-the-loop systems that help teams search project data, review documents, identify risks, support RFIs and submittals, and make faster project decisions.
🧠 Practical Technology Leadership
Paul’s approach is grounded in real construction operations, not technology for technology’s sake. He focuses on whether tools are adopted by project teams, used in live workflows, and capable of improving cost, schedule, quality, safety, and coordination outcomes.
He works across field teams, project leaders, executives, product teams, and technology partners to translate construction problems into scalable technology workflows.
🎤 Speaking & Industry Leadership
Paul regularly speaks at national construction and technology events, including conferences hosted by ABC, AGC, Trimble, Procore, and other industry groups. He also lectures at Auburn University and works with construction leaders to advance practical technology adoption across the industry.
His speaking focuses on AI in construction, BIM/VDC, reality capture, project intelligence, field adoption, and the future of construction workflows.
🎓 Education & Mentorship
Paul holds a Bachelor of Science in Building Construction from Auburn University. He remains active in construction education through university lectures, industry mentoring, and workforce development.
He is committed to helping the next generation of construction professionals understand how technology, data, and AI can improve the way projects are planned, coordinated, and delivered.
