As blogged on Interesting Engineering, what do you think of when you think of Artificial Intelligence? Smart devices? The IOT? Self Driving vehicles? Skynet? Everyone and their grandmother is talking about AI and for good reason too. Artificial Intelligence is a hot topic because of its potential to change the way humans do just about everything.

Don’t believe us? Artificial Intelligence has infected almost every industry there is out there, infiltrating your phones, homes as smart speakers, your movie selections, and even your car. However, you do not have to worry …yet. AI is here to help, allowing humans to be more efficient at what they do, tackling challenges across the globe.

As stated by Oren Etzioni, “A calculator is a tool for humans to do math more quickly and accurately than they could ever do by hand; similarly, AI computers are tools for us to perform tasks too difficult or expensive for us to do on our own, such as analyzing large data sets or keeping up to date on medical research.”

The world of construction is one of those industries poised to gain a lot from intelligent computing creating better buildings, cities, and communities for the world to live in. Today you are going to get a foundation on some of the biggest ways AI is changing the world of construction.

Design Optimization

One of the first things to discuss when talking about AI and construction is the design process as well as the factors that influence it. Construction design now is rather archaic, slow to adopt new technology, therefore slowing the process of creating a building.

Using Artificial intelligence, owners and contractors can use a supervised learning system to from collected environmental data, building data, material data etc. to identify the best way to create a building or even a community.

A contractor may build a home in a new area or region. A construction AI system may recommend to a builder what materials, specific design languages, and costs are needed to create the home based on available data, within seconds.

Data is the name of the game and will be for many of the topics on this list. In short, AI allows contractors to analyze massive amounts of data in real time drastically cutting the entire construction process down to a fraction of what it was years ago.

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