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Trust a bot to run your project? Check out October’s 21CC podcast

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…

News

CIOB artificial intelligence conference: register today

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…

“A Roman bricklayer observing his counterpart on a modern UK building site would see many similarities to the way they worked on Hadrian’s mega project in the 120s AD (Hadrian’s Wall by Toa Heftiba/Unsplash)

Perspectives

Why construction needn’t fear AI

On balance, AI seems likely to do what technology has always done: reshape work and remove the need for some occupations while creating many more and raising productivity. Never has…

The stainless steel Impossible Statue, weighing 500kg and standing 1.5m high, is on display at Tekniska Museet, Sweden’s National Museum of Science and Technology (Photograph courtesy of Sandvik)

Innovation

AI designs statue with styles of Michelangelo and Rodin

Swedish engineering group Sandvik has unveiled a statue designed by artificial intelligence (AI) to incorporate styles of five famous sculptors no longer living, including Michelangelo. The stainless steel Impossible Statue,…

The idea is to help staff do daily tasks more easily so they can focus on other responsibilities, Ferrovial said (Courtesy of Ferrovial)

Trends

Ferrovial gives staff AI “virtual assistant” for day-to-day tasks

Ferrovial says it has become the first infrastructure company in the world to give staff a generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool to use in their day-to-day work. Employees will be…