Autodesk’s Construction IQ Combats “Invisible Data”
Emily Pollock posted on March 01, 2019 |
Construction IQ incorporates a set of algorithms trained to detect which issues are the most important. (Image courtesy of Autodesk.)
This week, Autodesk announced the preview of their Construction IQ, a machine-learning program that gives construction companies risk analysis using data that often goes unseen.
According to Autodesk, the inspiration for Construction IQ was that many companies are overwhelmed with data that ends up going unused. “As the construction industry has been digitizing over the past decade, an enormous amount of data is being amassed,” says Pat Keaney, Director of BIM 360. “The problem is that it’s almost too much of a good thing. There’s so much data that folks who are actually out on construction sites can’t keep up with the data and they can’t review it well.”
To combat that, they’re offering an ML platform that can go through all of this “invisible” data, find the key points that pertain to construction quality and risk, and summarize the biggest risks it finds in an easy-to-read format. The preview offers an executive risk overview (which lets executive stakeholders look at risk across projects), and a project quality and safety risk analysis (which lets users figure out which subcontractors are carrying risk and possible safety issues onsite).
In order to teach their algorithm to “know” which safety issues loom largest, Autodesk spent…