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San Francisco – For the second consecutive year, artificial intelligence was the conversation of construction technology.
The speakers gave attendees to the recent lecture Enr FuturetEch a look at the way they apply systems and products based on their flows of work and jobs. Many spoke of how AI affects their specific areas of approach while showing the spread of technology in all aspects of the building industry, from visualization to tutoring and data use.
For example, Sadia Janjua, head of digital transformation of the New York Port Authority and New Jersey, explained how the agency took advantage of the internal chatbots during the conference opening note on May 6.
A Chatbot learns from the procedures, manuals and standard documentation of the Port Authority and can share this information in the form of a quick chat with a user, without requiring several searches.
“Effective AI is based on high quality structured data and I like to think -as the essential fuel for AI solutions,” said Janjua.
Achieve practical
In Futurech, practical solutions were a recurring reason.
Hamzah Shanbari, director of Innovation at Jacksonville, the Haskell contractor, based in Florida, described how the unlikely pairing of Ai and Wi-Fi signals can be used in map software that can track construction progress in a place.
Putting route commercially in different places throughout the workplace, the WISE system can identify behaviors, behaviors and pipes with the help of an AI model that the company is forming to detect the lowercase differences that separate these structures. The end result is what Wise’s website says exactly, near real -time progress of jobs.
Although Wise continues in the research and development phase, Shanbari was a bull in his potential.
“Imagine what we can do if we really sit and develop these nodes to use them specifically for this follow-up, and not just solutions outside the platform?” Shanbari asked the listeners.
Optimistic pessimists
The contractors, when it comes to AI, have a lot of “optimistic pessimism”, said Kris Lengieza, a Global Carpinteria Global Technology Evangelist, California Giant Procore content. The builders, Lengieza, are looking for solutions that can be applied to the problems existing in their businesses.
“I think they are worried that it is very flash and bang, and not much action,” Lengieza told Construction Dive during the conference.
In fact, the presenters warned, As they did in 2024that contractors need to start experimenting with technology to see how they apply to their unique workflows or risk -falling behind the competition. The first touch stone on this trip is the information that is achieved.
“The implementation of AI does not start with the algorithms. Really starts with your data,” said Janjua. “If your data is inconsistent, silenced and inaccessible, AI will only amplify these problems.”
The data is the new concrete
This data discussion in Futuretech was an extension of a conversation similar to the New York Build conference this year in March. There the speakers said that the quality of the data is causing problems throughout the industryAnd retain it.
The question of how to take advantage of the data has been needed to builders since the technology entered the main current with the Chatgpt launch of Openai in 2022. Make sense of the millions of data points A contractor can be collected in any project that has been incorporated by the builders as long as they have been able to track.
To this end, contractors have been successful historically with AI -based products whose purpose are specific and specific topics. Providence, Gilbane Building Co., based on Rhode Island, used the Ai de Truncs program based on New York City Track 21,000 documents in the Baird Center’s expansion project of $ 456 million. With the tool, Gilbane avoided more than $ 100,000 in re -elaboration a month.
In FuturetEch, it was these types of specific uses that caught the attention of the attendees. Until now, according to Lengieza, the data is being quickly turned into the new Concrete of Construction.
“It will be the one that is all built. It will be the one that sets the contractors apart,” said Lengieza.
