Contractors, designers, and technologists of the FuturetEch Conference of Enr 6 and 7 Shared Optimistic views shared of a not too distant future where architecture, engineering and construction professionals have more connected work flows, more reliable data channels, more proactive approaches to cope with the uncertainty of the work and more tools such as Internet of Digital and Twins Digital Phases of work.
The speakers of the San Francisco event shared information on the real world about the use of growing artificial intelligence in the industry and as companies such as the Weitz contractor and the Dusty Robotics Printing Robot Provider increase the role of robotics. He also appeared at the event that attracted about 600 attendees was a look at the Fusion Energy potential to change global energy policy, and as an engineering company he uses Big Data collected after the association of his designs.
Dusty Robotics Field Printer Prints the soil designs in Enr Futuuech 2025 May 6.
Video by Jeff Yoders/Enr
“ We predict a workplace where the cliché is true, where people do not have to work harder, but smarter, ” said Sadia Janjua, head of digital transformation of New York’s Port Authority and New Jersey, co-presating Dimitra Karachaliou, an associate vice president of digital transformation counseling at Aecom technology. The projects and there will be a more widespread use of VDC models following the golden thread of a project.
Janjua and Karachaliou explained how their work for the agency has given a better collaboration of the project and the end of re -elaboration for tasks such as entering inspection data.
“Data governance must first pass, then you can streamline technology and create an ecosystem, make our people fit,” said Karachaliou.
Optimistic about the cleanest energy options was Valerie Roberts, COO and business manager of Longview Energy Systems, whose startup is dedicated to making fusion energy production a reality, explained how recent advances in technology have gone through the science fiction of “ Iron Man ” to reality.
“There are $ 7 billion in private capital and 40 new fusion -focused startups have existed in the last ten years,” said Roberts. He quoted recent advances such as Lawrence Livermore Laboratory by gaining laser fusion energy gain in 2023, and how laser’s inertial confinement has shown higher trade potential than older technologies such as the Magnetic Fusion Tokamak process of the Iter multinational project in France.
The AI generative remained an approach to the conference, with Ray Levitt, Blackhorn Ventures’s operating partner and Kumagai Professor of Engineering Emeritus at Stanford University, emphasizing that 30-40% of white-necked workers will be needed for the next two or five years, citing a report of world economic forums.
“We are investing a bit in this,” said Aul Khanzode, head of technology at DPR Construction, in a discussion about Levitt and Eric Lamb, an operational partner in the capital capital of the contractor, WND Ventures, “which includes how to prepare data for a AI for specific tasks.”
Several jobs of Weitz Co. They are changed by workflows using Dusty Robotics robot ‘Field Printer 2 to make soil designs before the installation of equipment and walls.
Mark Vibber, Superinent of the Senior project of Weitz, Brian Owens, his VDC engineer and Tessa Lau, CEO and founder of Dusty Robotics; He showed how the use of design robots in various contractor projects unlocked a 10% benefit opportunity for the company not only from the printing of his flats, but also the collaboration and cooperation of better jobs before any work was launched.
“Attempts to resolve conflict do not work,” Owens said in reaction to Dodge data noted on field conflict resolution. “It’s like being stabbed in the heart.”
