AI special: 'The potential is enormous' BIM

The CIOB Digital Special Interest Group took part in a'mind hive' on artificial intelligence (AI) – here's what they said. Momentum is definitely building behind AI in construction and ultimately it will have a profound impact on the sector. That is the overriding view of the Chartered Institute of Building's Digital Technologies & Asset Management Special Interest Group. Aecom global BIM/MIC consultancy director David Philp (above), who chairs the group, said: "Although there is a lot of misdefinition and hype around AI we believe it will ultimately have a profound effect on built environment landscape and AI will allow us to take real meaning from our data. "Combined with distributed ledger technology like Blockchain, it could also help solve adversarial issues which we believe will enable new forms of outcome based transactional contracts.