Machine Learning Is Transforming the Construction Industry

As the engineering and construction industry continues down its journey of digitization, one area that is becoming top-of-mind for organizations is machine learning. The engineering industry has already begun to realize the benefits from integrating data across systems, but the full potential that predictive analytics can bring to the industry has yet to be recognized. As the adoption of machine learning continues to gain traction across the industry, it's hard not to get excited about the opportunity that it presents in reimagining every phase of the plan, build and operate stages of the asset life cycle. Looking at advancements in deep learning, and the commercialized use of unstructured data like images, videos and text, as well as the ability to process big data through distributed cloud computing, these benefits will make themselves more apparent in existing work practices. Any good machine learning strategy needs data to work.