Artificial intelligence in the construction industry: A review of present status, opportunities and future challenges

🤖 Plain-English Summary

The growth of the construction industry is severely limited by the myriad complex challenges it faces such as cost and time overruns, health and safety, productivity and labour shortages. Additionally, the opportunities and challenges of AI applications in construction were identified and presented in this study.

🔑 Key Findings

• Also, construction industry is one the least digitized industries in the world, which has made it difficult for it to tackle the problems it currently faces.
• An advanced digital technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI), is currently revolutionising industries such as manufacturing, retail, and telecommunications.
• The subfields of AI such as machine learning, knowledge-based systems, computer vision, robotics and optimisation have successfully been applied in other industries to achieve increased profitability, efficiency, safety and security.

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