In the future, Suffolk plans to use AI to create "micro-efficiencies" and integrate AI into tools that the team is already using. The company also aims to leverage its 40 years of construction data to use AI in "big strategic ways" to fuel better design decision-making up front.
Key takeaways:
- Suffolk, the largest construction contractor in Massachusetts, has built an artificial intelligence model to predict safety risks on construction sites.
- The AI model, developed in partnership with NewMetrix, has helped reduce incident rates by 25% by providing risk ratings to job sites and predicting the likelihood of incidents.
- The construction company is facing a labor shortage and an aging workforce, prompting a shift from intuition-based decision-making to data-driven decision-making.
- In the future, Suffolk plans to use AI to create micro-efficiencies and implement AI in big strategic ways, leveraging their 40 years of construction data to fuel better design decision-making.