Balfour Beatty is working with tech giant Microsoft to explore AI opportunities in construction.

Cementation Skanska is mandating the installation of AI-backed human form recognition cameras on its fleet of large-diameter piling rigs and cranes after a successful trial.

Construction professionals in the West Midlands learned at an event in March how the industry is exploiting machine learning and AI solutions.

Tunnelling and underground construction technology start-up HyperTunnel has secured government funding to demonstrate its swarm construction technique by building an underpass.

The Thermal Insulation Contractors Association (TICA) has issued a stark warning regarding AI-generated online training courses.

The East Midlands Great Debate in November brought together six of the UK’s leading professional bodies, including CIOB, to discuss key issues around AI in the built environment.

Balfour Beatty, Kier and Costain will be working with National Highways in the trial of new AI-powered technologies to improve roadworks projects.

A UK startup is about to commercialise what it claims is the world’s first autonomous robot able to locate and fix potholes.

The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) has introduced an AI chatbot on its website. It is designed to provide a “more intuitive and efficient way” to understand the CIOB, access information and explore its services.

Getting granular with NEC4 and debating the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in the built environment will be up for discussion at two upcoming events being held by CIOB Midlands in November.

The October edition of the 21CC podcast, brought to you by the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB), is now available. It examines the growing influence of artificial intelligence on construction…

The CIOB has launched a new online conference evaluating the role of artificial intelligence in construction. Discussions will focus on how AI will work in construction and the wider built…

“Saying the AI got it wrong is like saying the dog ate my homework.” So said Buro Happold global director of commercial, legal and digital risks May Winfield.

The annual Construction Management and BIMplus survey sought your views on the year’s hot topic: artificial intelligence – is it construction’s friend or foe? Justin Stanton reports.

With the emergence of chatbots like ChatGPT, one construction manager asks our contract clinic if artificial intelligence could be used instead of lawyers for drafting construction contracts?

Zainab Anwar and Olivia Jenkins consider the potential value of multiple AI-driven technologies on construction projects.

An AI chatbot called ‘ConstructGPT’ is in development and will be ‘arriving soon’, according to the platform’s landing page.

Is AI just what the construction industry needs to take a significant step forward? Or is the technology the beginning of the end?