Digital assistant uses AI and machine learning to improve construction professionals’ productivity and decision-making
The brief, dazzling life of Katerra – the American start-up that claimed to have revolutionised construction with its tech-driven approach to mass prefabrication, only to collapse completely in June last year – will have confirmed for many the suspicion that...
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Slate is an AI software platform for the construction industry. According to Slate, the digital assistant “executes multi-dimensional analysis across internal and external data sources, learning as it goes to offer full transparency into the building process”.
The industry’s current focus is on perfecting BIM workflows.
As there are many moving parts on a given construction site, there are also many contractors serving distinct roles with various responsibilities.
How much further can the design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA) approach go? Joel Hutchines calls for data to drive design for constructIbility.
Most people in the construction industry will say that on any given work site, there is always an amount of waste that could have been avoided.
Before and since the world was hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, the construction industry has been beset by a struggle to fill positions of all shapes and sizes.
Construction AI software platform Slate Technologies has announced its acquisition of Splash Modular, a North Carolina-based software designer for the industrialised construction and design for manufacturing and assembly (DFMA).
Slate Generate helps teams productize design and automate take off and estimating to reduce costly mistakes and speed preconstruction and planning.