buildAI
Remodeling the Construction Realm

Despite the massive technological advancements that we’ve seen in other sectors, the construction industry hasn’t changed much in terms of technology over the last 20 years. While manufacturing has long been enjoying the benefits of automation, the productivity growth for construction is still sitting below 1 per cent. Today, striving towards bridging this gap and bringing AI and automation into the construction world is buildAI-a specialist in AI computer vision research and development. Using the concept of self-driving cars, buildAI uses cameras to monitor cranes and the movement of materials and workers, and then relays that data to an AI system which crunches the numbers in real-time onto a cloud-based dashboard. The company uses this data to identify inefficiencies and generates insights regarding how the construction processes can be streamlined and improved for better outcomes. buildAI monitors the structure build and keeps an as-built record of construction and high resolution images of pre-pour. This captures any last minute changes or errors and for the first time there is an accurate high resolution proof of what lies beneath the concrete.

A construction technology start-up formed in 2018, buildAI’s core technology was developed from leading Australian universities, which is now commercialized by a team of highly experienced data scientists and computer vision experts.

Through its game-changing digital platform that transforms live data into real time safety, quality assurance, and predictive project outcomes, the company aims to enhance the human workforce, not replace themHow? Rather than manually monitoring the progression of a site, the North Sydney-based firm uses robust technology and visual data from cameras to capture a real-time picture of work progress. The automated real-time understanding of a construction site allows the buildAI system to provide an accurate account of how site activities are tracking and imparts automatic remote visibility of a construction project site. With the help of cameras to monitor cranes and the movement of materials and workers, the company leads to an overall increase in construction efficiency and safety. Moreover, the colossal volumes of data collected also provides a platform for data to be analyzed within and across projects to identify inefficiencies or underperforming projects and help officials take necessary actions before they intervene present operations or hamper future planning activities.

buildAI enables data driven construction. Through the perfect amalgamation of AI, machine learning, and human labor, the company optimizes delivery, scheduling, and planning across the critical path in real time. It automatically links crane utilization to lead deck cycles and deliveries with lifting data to improve the crane efficiency and logistics planning respectively. In essence, the company’s software also features automatic upload of progress images to leading construction software packages, and subsequently tracks progress like concrete pours to provide an as-built model. The software not only saves time and travel but also gives clients a hundred per cent coverage of progress, automatically alerting them to any issues, using buildAI’s unique construction AI expertise. Hence, by modeling project progress against plan with actual site data, the company drives construction efficiency while providing quality control assurance and accurate evidence of the structure, sequence, and edge protection. With innovation at its core, it is safe to say that buildAI is leaving no stone unturned in transforming the construction industry at the behest of sophisticated technologies