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Skanska tests AI and lidar technology

Skanska is testing two technologies designed to improve site safety and monitor on-site progress in California. 

The two systems, OpenSpace and SolidSpac3, are being trialled at the £143m ($188m) CHA Hollywood Medical Centre, where the firm is building a five-storey acute care facility. 

OpenSpace combines AI with a hard hat-mounted camera that takes a 360° photo every half-second as a person walks through a construction site. The pictures allow architects, engineers and clients to take a virtual walk through the job site from a remote location.

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