Construcciones Yamaro: Design & Make Summit showcases AI’s impact on construction

Autodesk’s 2024 Design & Make Summit. (Image: Autodesk)

Artificial intelligence (AI) is disrupting Australia’s construction industry “faster than most of us expected,” said a senior Autodesk executive at the Design & Make Summit in Sydney on 10 September 2024.

The annual summit brings together leaders and experts from the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) and design and manufacturing (D&M) industries to explore the latest trends and technologies driving future developments.

Jim Lynch, senior vice president and general manager of Autodesk Construction at Autodesk, discussed the rapid changes in the workplace driven by AI.

“Many of us thought the future of work would happen, you know… in the future,” said Lynch. “But then the workplace changed a lot faster than most of us expected. And it’s not done changing. AI has arrived, with implications that are looming large for all of us.”

Autodesk’s State of Design & Make 2024 report, which features insights from over 5,000 leaders across the AEC and D&M sectors – including 2,000 in Asia Pacific – found that 78 per cent of respondents believe AI will enhance their industry and are optimistic about its future.

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“We’ve gone from just sharing files in the cloud to collaborating in the cloud. From seeing data as a problem to be managed, to realising it’s an opportunity to be tapped. And from talking about the promise of AI to making real progress adopting it,” said Lynch.

“In fact, according to the report, 56 per cent of companies across the industry are incorporating AI into your businesses right now. Take construction, for example. Like many industries at the moment, it’s riddled with challenges. In Australia, those include higher labour costs, the cost of raw materials, a lack of skilled workers, growing competition and economic uncertainty.

“However, we are seeing businesses every day using AI to mitigate some of these challenges. Across Asia Pacific, construction businesses are adopting AI for predictive insights; to identify opportunities to improve profitability, generative design, and even subcontractor evaluations.”

Lynch went on to say that the AEC industry is doubling down on AI and, as a result, is seeing improved efficiency, cost reductions, an increase in competitive advantage, and increased revenue.

He said: “We’ve been making progress too. Autodesk AI is technology we’ve been working on and investing in for years. It powers our Design & Make platform and our industry clouds Fusion, Forma, and Flow. We’ve been putting AI to work because we know that it has the transformative power to understand and address the capacity issues you all face: the challenge of doing more with less.”

Autodesk’s Construction Leadership team visited Sydney for the event, including: Jim Lynch, SVP and GM, Autodesk Construction at Autodesk; Sidharth Haksar, VP construction strategy and industry partnerships at Autodesk; Lalith Subramanian, VP construction product at Autodesk; Geoff Tarrant, co-founder at Payapps; Brandon Lacourciere, VP emerging businesses at Autodesk; Paul Blandini, VP construction business strategy and operations at Autodesk; Brent Ramos, senior director of construction sales at Autodesk; and Colin Piper, senior director construction marketing at Autodesk.

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