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Since artificial intelligence, especially the generative AI, has become widely used, the technology has dominated the headlines, since companies and employees are alike responding and looking for best practice.
Construction companies were bombarded by companies that offer AI-supported products, especially in the area of security of construction sites.
“I think the biggest challenge with which our contractors are confronted is … frustrated because she is coming up so quickly,” Greg Sizemore, Vice President for Human Resources Development, Security, Health and Environment for the associated builders and contractors against Construction Dive.
In this complex landscape, security experts say that they have brought the countless pitches skepticism because they rate the best ways to implement AI in their work processes in order to improve safety on construction sites.
“We spend a lot of time to say to our contractors:” Be careful what you draw, “said Sizemore.” Caution does not take it at the moment. “
However, the industry leaders use the AI that the good news is that the instructions for the use of generative tools remain the same: Use them as a tool to accelerate the workflows instead of replacing or adding existing processes.
In February, Skanska revealed the buddy, A Ki chatbot. The tool is intended to help the company explore data catalogs from its numerous projects without bringing information to the public without secret or proprietary information.
Users who have been created with the same technology as Chatgpt can ask questions and react with answers based on a collection of internal data that remain in the proprietary cloud of Skanska. The product only serves for internal use and is not sold commercially.
“We can start to use the experience and knowledge from all over Skanska so that I not only learn from my own mistakes and avoid this that I am learning from the mistakes of thousands and thousands of other Skanska projects,” said Senner, Senior Vice President of Preconstruction for Skanska.
Sidekick helps to determine which projects and tasks are the greatest risk, said Senner, which was collected by the enormous amount of data of the contractor and developer based in Stockholm.
“The success of these efforts depends on the quality of the underlying information and the width and depth of this information,” said Senner.
The large amounts of information collected in jobs can be a good starting point, said Patrick Scarpati, director of design technology and innovation for ABC. Even smaller builders often integrate photo acquisition or security cameras in their jobs.
“There is a lot of data that is now being thrown around on job sites with many digital -based project management platforms,” Scarpati told Construction Dive. “We still learn as an industry how we can structure all of this, right? Data governance, that is the real power of AI, right?”
The Consigli Construction Co., based in Milford, Massachusetts, has started to use fixed cameras, drone material and 360-degree documentary for AI security analysis, said Jack Moran, Senior Construction Technology Director of the company. Consigli has also actively tested the DRONDEPLOY security ACI platform, which records and records potential dangers on site to use plans for several K-12 and university projects with plans.
Moran said the contractor also uses it to collect data.
“We also examine AI, machine learning and text bots to optimize the recording and management of safety data such as training documents, certifications and material persecution in order to better improve and inform our security processes,” Moran told Construction Dive. “In addition, we evaluate how natural language tools can help teams to help the security documentation via the project life cycle easier to report, query and ensure.”
Sizemore said when he spoke to ABC members about the use of AI, someone often makes a “terminator” reference – which indicates caution of technology and its effects. The comments are a joke, said Sizemore, but they are real concern.
“These are managers of companies that go.” Will my employees be replaced in X years for AI? “” And we always put it on education and understand what AI can actually offer them. “
AI is not an additional instrument that is to be added to an existing workflow, emphasized Senner. A worker will not yet completely replace, especially not someone with specialist knowledge.
“In our thoughts, the final of this is no chatbots, right? How, it's not about:” Hey, here is a chat bot to ask questions about security, “said Senner.” This is about how we can provide our employees the right security views at the right time. “
And in contrast to the goals of terminators in blockbuster films, the human element should remain, said Moran.
“It is important that we do not treat AI as a replacement for human judgment. It is an addition to scaling our attention and gaining better visibility in complex, fast -moving construction sites,” said Moran.
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