March - 2020CONSTRUCTIONTECHREVIEW.COM8IN MYOPINIONBy Mike Ernst, VP of Insights & Innovation, Ryan Companies There is no doubt that artificial intelligence (AI) is the wave of the future, transforming businesses like healthcare, banking, retail and transport. While the construction industry continues to drive economic growth, it is historically behind nearly from every other profession when it comes to adopting new technology. However, construction companies are now moving towards digital solutions to solve common project challenges and improve outcomes. The construction industry is a complicated and multifaceted business with a lot of moving pieces. With the adoption of AI, construction companies can gather crucial project data that not only create efficiencies in project execution, but also helps in transforming working conditions for field employees. AI's capabilities in programming, language processing, and computer vision make a significant difference in allowing construction companies to take advantage of historical productivity and performance data to influence future projects. AI: a Core Element of Ryan At Ryan Companies, we are in the early stages of using AI, with computer vision set up on eight of our high-risk multifamily, hospitality and senior living projects. AI was a good starting point for us to begin harvesting important and influential information on project sites with regard to environmental factors, safety, security, performance, and quality assurance and control (QA/QC). With fewer field workers on site, it is getting harder for us to capture the information we need in order to deliver successful projects to our customers. The data collected from the computer vision technology helps our team to execute and document projects appropriately and therefore use that intel to analyze how we can make overall decisions in a better way. The cameras we have set up can pull in vital environmental factors including temperature, humidity and CO/CO2 levels that can have an extreme impact A LOOK AT HOW ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS TRANSFORMING OUR CONSTRUCTION SERVICE
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