AI and its derivatives stand to offer enormous benefits to the construction industry , and adoption looks set to rocket in the coming years

Artificial intelligence ( AI ) has become all but an inevitability for the vast majority of industries , and construction is no different . It stands as one of humanity ’ s oldest disciplines , refined over millennia and swayed in new directions by every civilisation and major cultural shift to reach the job sites of today . Construction on the scale of the modern day , growing at pace as globalisation and urbanisation have accelerated over the past century , is replete with challenges that will define our own epoch ’ s chapter in the industry ’ s long history . Environmentalism , space limitations , ethics and human rights , health and safety , and efficiency and productivity summarise the bulk of the challenges that modern construction faces , and AI appears poised to address each of them whilst fulfilling that most essential of business needs : cost reduction .