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- Contractors are planning to invest in artificial intelligence but real Adoption rates do not match these aspirationsAccording to a new report from the Royal Institution of Charterated Surveyers on construction.
- London -based in London, he used the answers to the survey of more than 2,200 professionals around the world, with 10% of respondents from the Americas, according to the report.
- About 45% of respondents did not report any implementation of the AI in their organizations, with 34% in the first pilot phases, according to the survey. In addition, only 1.5% of respondents reported the use of AI in various processes, while less than 1% of participants reported the use of the AI completely integrated throughout the organization.
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These intentions are aligned with the Ai Arms Race Larger contractors have participated in recent years. The Rich Citation Burlingame report, California -based investment signature Zacua Ventures’ Conting Investor Survey 2025Which revealed that 56% of the investors surveyed planned to put more funds towards the AI compared to the previous year.
But this fervor has not participated for most contractors, according to the rich report. In addition to the adoption gap, many companies are also in the early stages of planning in the AI, if there is planning. For example, 45% of respondents said that their companies have limited capacity and that they are only exploring how the AI can be implemented. Almost a third -29 % -said that their organizations currently have no capacity or plans.
This lack of real implementation contrasts greatly with the possible contractors who see the IA in the construction. At the same time stand out the reputation of the industry to be Slow to adopt technology.
For example, Rica surveyed professionals’ opinions on the importance of AI can improve various aspects of construction, including monitoring of progress, security management, sustainability and risk management. Most respondents evaluated the importance of Moderate AI, according to the report. The respondents evaluated the AI in the areas already associated with data -rich processes and predictive decision -making.
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Courtesy of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyers
The survey comes at a time when contractors feel pressure to adopt technology or leave behind.
Contractors are also affected by adoption fatigue, according to Tanja Kufner, head of businesses and startups in the Neetschek group, a construction -oriented German software company.
“There are so many timely solutions, so many workflows and you have to do so many session starts. I just find it crazy,” Kufner told Construction Dive. “I have never seen it in any other industry.”
To meet these challenges, rich recommended a series of long -term and long -term actions contractors.
In the immediate future, builders should improve internal teams and establish transversal leadership groups to identify short -term IA use cases such as programming, costs, sustainability and security, according to rich.
In the medium term, builders can control and evaluate the performance of the IA through reference points and users’ comments. This will help to heed the AI, while aware of the risks and environmental costs involved in technology, according to the report.
Contractors could go to long -term implementation. This means climbing successful use cases between functions, projects or regions and participating in the development of collaborative rules, according to the report.
Despite a minor implementation so far, the AI adoption curve could increase if builders develop these types of technology -focused programs.
“These trends suggest that the construction industry reaches a point of introduction to AI,” the report concluded. “As the support of the infrastructure develops, the processes and practices are established and the implementation costs reduce, the widespread adoption of the AI could occur in a relatively short period.”
