News Google plans $15bn AI hub in India Google says it will spend $15bn between 2026 to 2030 on artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure in India. Plans include a hub in the east coast city of Visakhapatnam in Andhra…
Innovation We build things. Here are two ways we’re using AI now Formerly a platoon commander and company executive officer with the 101st Airborne Division, Bryce Barnes is director of innovation at Nashville-based Hardaway Construction. Artificial Intelligence is no longer just a…
Perspectives What construction firms really think about AI A new global survey quizzed construction executives about their AI plans, actions and perceptions. The results suggest the “AI revolution” is some way off. In February 2021, two US economists…
News AI is already changing buildings as report predicts $359bn market by 2034 A new report from the Sustainable Markets Initiative (SMI) Buildings Hub reveals how AI is already reshaping the way buildings are designed, constructed, and maintained. Buildings currently produce nearly 40%…
News Microsoft green lights second phase of “world’s most powerful AI” data centre Microsoft has confirmed it will invest an extra $4bn over the next three years at its complex in Fairwater, Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, creating what the company describes as the “world’s…
News Californian city to use AI to streamline building permits The city of Lancaster in southwest California has announced plans to use AI to streamline building permits in an effort to reduce planning bottlenecks while fast-tracking approvals, becoming one of…
News Robotic micro-factory deployed for Los Angeles wildfires rebuild ABB Robotics is working with San Francisco’s Cosmic Buildings to build modular structures on site in Pacific Palisades as the Los Angeles neighbourhood recovers from January’s devastating wildfires. The AI-enabled…
News OpenAI, Nscale and Aker to build massive ‘Stargate’ datacentre in Norway ChatGPT inventor OpenAI, Norwegian industrial group Aker and London-based AI infrastructure provider Nscale have announced plans to build “Stargate Norway”, OpenAI’s first European gigafactory. When finished in 2026, it will…
News Turner JV lands role on $6bn data centre scheme in Pennsylvania A joint venture of Turner Construction and Wohlsen Construction has won a contract to build a 100MW data centre in Lancaster, Pennsylvania for AI company CoreWeave, which says it will…
News Skanska tops out timber New York AI research building Construction has topped out on Skanska’s Artificial Intelligence and Quantitative Biology building at New York’s Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL). The three-storey building is made from cross-laminated timber and will…
News In Tokyo, data and people clash over scarce space As tech companies invest heavily in big data centres to meet demand for cloud computing and AI, people in Tokyo’s greater metropolitan area are mounting opposition over concerns about about…
News Power-hungry Meta signs nuclear and geothermal deals Meta, the parent of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, this month signed deals securing sources of nuclear and geothermal power as it races to secure enough energy to develop AI. On…
News Brookfield announces $10bn investment in Swedish AI New York-based investor Brookfield Asset Management plans to invest $10bn in AI infrastructure in Sweden. The centrepiece will be an AI data centre in Strängnäs, about 20km west of Stockholm.…
Machinery Leica Geosystems unveils machine vision safety system Leica Geosystems, part of Hexagon, this week launched an AI powered collision detection system powered by Presien. The Leica Xsight360 system detects people or objects nearby and alerts the operator,…
News Austrian scaffolder Doka shows how AI can transform business Scaffolding and formwork specialist Doka is to use AI to automate the counting and identification of materials. The system uses Microsoft technology to analyse photographs of returned materials, rather than…
News Taiwan chip giant plans first European R&D centre in Munich The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (SCMC) is to build its first European research, development and design centre near Munich, the Taipei Times reports. The company said the facility would improve…
News Robotic house-building start-up secures £5.1m UK construction tech company Automated Architecture (Auar) has secured £5.1m in new funding to commercialise its robotic “pop-up micro-factory” system, in which a robotic arm equipped with machine vision and…
News California turns to AI to speed up wildfire reconstruction As builders and homeowners in Los Angeles worry about President Trump’s tariffs raising the costs of rebuilding after the wildfires, they can take some comfort in California’s new high-tech approach…