About

We Think Differently

Not Your Typical Tech Advisor

ConstructIQ Advisory was born from a dissatisfaction with conventional approaches to technology adoption and their in-effectiveness in addressing critical industry challenges. The evidence is clear, doing nothing isn't an option, and previous tech approaches are falling short.


With nearly over two decades of lessons learned in construction innovation, and having moved the needle on solving major challenges for the top engineering, construction, and materials manufacturing organizations, we know a better way and are here to accelerate meaningful change so you can build better.


By leveraging our unique experience and success in leading data-first innovation initiatives, we help construction and technology organizations of all sizes foster a culture of innovation, tackle critical business challenges with purpose-driven solutions, break down adoption barriers, seek ways to integrate across silos, and create new business opportunities along the way.

Our Mission is to Drive Meaningful Change

High Impact Strategic Innovation Leadership 

We provide expert guidance for construction and technology organizations of all sizes to make a meaningful impact by crafting strategies designed to move the needle on sustainability, resource efficiency, cost reduction, schedule certainty, cash flow, and new business growth.


We have unique and creative ways of breaking down complex challenges, influencing alignment, and fast-tracking results.


While most focus on emulating the competition or copy/paste what was done before, we lead with innovation. We offer unique, holistic, and practical strategies for developing and adopting purposeful data-first solutions to help your organization and its projects build better, without simply just following trends.


It's about identifying roots of the problems where even 1% improvement can yield multipliers in business impact, with minimal effort and cost.


Accelerating AI in Construction

Data-first and machine-led driven solutions are unequivocally positioned to move the needle on industries most complex and costly challenges.


We help craft data-first strategies necessary to unlock the potential in your data, and accelerate the development and adoption of new AI/ML innovations.


Our talent has provided early leadership in AI-in-construction, with initiatives impacting over $25 billion in projects across North America, helping organizations deliver more work with less resources, redefining approaches to project delivery, and leading to multiple awards and industry recognition.


No matter the size of your organization, becoming a digital/data-first business and unlocking the potential of AI is entirely  possible.


We know the way.


Discovery of New Digital Business Opportunities.

Traditional construction business models offer few avenenues for revenue or business growth, often through a 1:1 project based transactions or costly/risky M&A's.


Digital business models offer several revenue pathays and pricing tactics, with many-to-many value and scale based opportunities that transcend and flow well after your projects are completed.


Our talent brings a unique edge, with both construction industry and digital business accumen, along with a track record of discovering and generating new digital commercial opportunities and models for construction and technology organizations.


We help construction and technology organizations identify these opportunities and plot a course to get there sooner.

Think Different. Choose Data. Build Better

Efficient Agile Methods for High Value Outcomes. The foundation of our approach is centered on customer/problem-value and scalability. By leveraging agile and lean-startup techniques, along with a wealth of digital construction innovation experience, we can more efficiently identify the most-valuable problems to solve, minimum-viable solutions to consider, and drive results for less cost, minimal disruption, and faster return on investment.


Data-first Mindset. Tapping into data driven insights, automating tasks, and leveraging machine-led innovations requires high-quality, purposeful data. This is often overlooked until too late, resulting in >90% of data collected going unused or is unseful, and significant cost and effort restructuring. Our approach avoids this scenerio by starting with the end-in-mind, weaving purpose-driven data-first tactics into your digital and product development strategies to get you there faster.


Acceleration Through Start-up Collaboration. We accelerate change and solution maturity by uniting stakeholders with innovators in the local start-up community who are addressing key solution gaps and leveraging next-edge technologies to move the needle.


Integrating Across Industry Silos. Our talent have worked side-by-side with stakeholders across the entire project delivery chain, giving us unique insights into what systems are being used, what data is out there, what problems each have, and opportunities to integrate to achieve win-win-win outcomes.


End-to-end Solutions Ecosystem. Through our strategic partnerhsips, we provide access to a complete network of specialty consultants and solution providers, addressing challenges throughout the entire asset/project delivery life-cycle and across the full industry value-chain.


Fostering an Inclusive, High-Performance Culture. Beyond consultants, we're commited partners in driving cultural change by fostering inclusivity, diversity, integrity, and continual improvement throughout your journey.


People & Purpose Driven innovation. Our approach prioritizes people and processes before technology. We emphasize local ideation with those closest to the problem, investigating deeper to reveal underlying problems to solve first, ensure solutions resonate with and enhance peoples job functions and processes, connecting initiatives to metrics your business speaks, and plotting a course focused on getting you there faster.


Simplifying Complex Challenges. We expertly distill complex issues into actionable business and product plans, connecting multiple digital initiatives and streamlining product backlogs to drive towards improving your most critical business metrics, providing increments of value along the way, and getting you there sooner.

Experts in Digital Construction Innovation and Product Leadership

Shawn Gray, P.Eng


Founder & CEO


My mission is to make meaningful change in the construction industry to help solve societies biggest challenges.


Society is experiencing an unprecedented poly-crisis regarding climate, housing, and critical infrastructure. All require assets to be built and time is not on our side. However, a complex interplay between several underlying factors are preventing the construction industry from effectively doing so.


We need to think different to build better..


Recognized as one of Canada's Top-40-under-40 in construction, I bring nearly two decades of experience in engineering, construction, and innovation leadership.


I've successfully delivered construction projects with a portfolio exceeding $5 billion in value, and my leadership in driving next-edge digital initiatives has provided needle moving benefits across more than $25 billion in projects across North America.


With training in Agile and Lean-start-up methods, and over a decade of construction innovation lessons learned, I've helped  industry organizations and technology companies overcome challenges in adopting digital solutions and accelerating their journey by thinking differently and choosing data to build better.

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Located in the Epicentre of Innovation for the Canadian Construction Industry

We are located in the greater Calgary area, home to over 50,000 technology professionals, and HQ for many con/prop-tech start-ups and several top innovative companies in Canada.


Proximity to the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, SAIT School of Construction,  Alberta IoT,  and Alberta Innovates, offers access to the most leading-edge innovations, thought-leaders, and resources with skills to implement.


Our central location in Western Canada enables us to effectively support industry stakeholders across Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba.

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