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Smarter Preconstruction and construction scheduling powered by AI.

30 March 2022

What are the opportunities to take advantages of the recent advances of artificial intelligence (AI) across both pre-construction and construction for major building and infrastructure projects? How can practice and academia work in parallel to embed the results of practical research? What does the future hold for the application of AI in the construction sector?

René Morkos speaks with Andrew Knight as they discuss the application of AI to construction scheduling.

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