Category: Artificial Intelligence
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How a $1,400 Humanoid Hints at Construction’s Robotic Future
Chinese startup Noetix launched Bumi, a bipedal robot that challenges mobile robots at a much heftier price. Is this just a whim or a breakthrough that could make robots a viable tool for even small construction companies? The Noetix Bumi robot is a humanoid robot designed primarily for educational and family use. It stands 94…
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Platform Power: Data, Terms of Use, and the Fate of AEC AI Startups
An ENR article reported that the agentic AI provider Trunk Tools lost its API access to Procore in September. According to ENR, Agave (a data integration platform) informed Trunk Tools and other startups that Procore’s new terms required changes to how they used its data connector. Procore says the change is due to its updating…
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OpenSpace and the Visual Intelligence Revolution with Jeevan Kalanithi
In this episode of the AEC Business podcast, Aarni Heiskanen welcomes back Jeevan Kalanithi, CEO of OpenSpace, to explore how the company is redefining construction site intelligence. Since Jeevan’s last appearance in 2022, OpenSpace has evolved from a leading reality-capture platform into a comprehensive Visual Intelligence Platform, an image-first way to manage construction projects. Aarni…
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BIM Without Boundaries: Building Data for AI Workflows
What is the role of BIM software and models in the data-driven future of AI agents and workflow automation? For years, the BIM model file has been treated as the single source of truth, the place where geometry and information meet. Yet the reality is changing fast. As construction processes become increasingly digital, connected, and…
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Twinmaster: ChatGPT for Architects, in 3D
Imagine typing “Optimize this design for daylight, cost, and carbon” and getting full 3D design options back in seconds. That’s exactly what TwinMaster makes possible. In this episode of the AEC Business Podcast, I talk with Dr. Prasanta Bose, CEO, and Michael Jansen, Chief Business Officer at TwinMaster, about their groundbreaking AI co-pilot, Arch-e. TwinMaster…
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How Agentic AI is Transforming Procurement
Procurement is one of the biggest, yet least visible, engines of the global economy. Trillions of dollars flow through purchasing departments that are often overwhelmed by complexity. What happens when AI agents start taking on this work? In this episode, I talk with Keith McFarlane, CTO at Globality, about how agentic AI is reshaping sourcing…
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Talk to Your Project – AEC Business
Back in the day, when mobile phones and Bluetooth earpieces first emerged, it felt weird to see people walking down the street talking to themselves. Now, nobody pays attention. Will the same happen with voice interaction with AI soon? Could speech replace WhatsApp chats? Voice is often the most efficient and convenient way to communicate.…
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Complink Automates Construction Procurement – AEC Business
In this episode of the AEC Business Podcast, Aarni Heiskanen sits down with Aino Hukkanen, co-founder and CPO of Complink, a Finnish startup that aims to bring intelligence back into construction workflows. Aino shares her journey from architecture to product design and co-founding Complink, and explains how their platform helps construction companies automate procurement and…
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Mark Farmer: AI ‘blind spot’ threatens construction’s professional services
Industry veteran Mark Farmer has urged construction leaders to face the disruptive potential of artificial intelligence (AI) on the sector’s white-collar workforce, warning that the industry is “missing a trick” by focusing too narrowly on trade skills shortages. Delivering this year’s CIOB Sir James Wates lecture in central London on Wednesday evening (24 September), the…
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LLMs in Construction: Where They Fail and Where They Shine
At the Building 2030 Summer Seminar, doctoral researchers Tuomas Valkonen and Roope Nyqvist from Aalto University shared fresh insights into how Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and DeepSeek perform in construction-related tasks. The results highlight a simple truth: used wisely, LLMs can accelerate knowledge work; used unwisely, they can produce nonsensical results in areas…