Posts

Featured Post

CAREERTIP: Construction Professionals should start treating AI like a new colleague

Artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t going away and construction professionals need to embrace it and start working with it as if it were a new colleague. Across all industries, including construction, the adoption of AI is rapidly gaining momentum. This is because technology has finally advanced to the point where it can handle the complex and unstructured data involved in construction projects. Experts predict that AI will continue to develop into what they call "composite AI." Construction professionals, however, have some concerns about adopting AI. These concerns include: Regulatory Framework: Construction professionals must ensure that they comply with all applicable laws and regulations. They must also protect themselves, as AI can be programmed with specific guidelines to produce desired outputs. Ethics : There are important legal and ethical issues to consider when using AI. For example, who is liable if something goes wrong? Who is responsible if a disaster occurs as

NEWS: Why is the construction sector so male-dominated?

NEWS: Impact of Construction Companies Suspending Russian Operations

NEWS: Why modular has not clicked in commercial construction

NEWS: Big demand for skilled project managers as African activity gathers pace

NEWS: Without proper infrastructure, freedom means little

NEWS: Built environment must adapt to "widespread and severe" climate change fallout

NEWS: Technology will help in the shortage economy

NEWS: Critical infrastructure investment is key to agriculture’s upward economic trajectory and contribution to GDP

NEWS: National Infrastructure Plan 2050 leans heavily on private sector to close R2tr finance gap

NEWS: Bureaucracy hampering construction activity in the country

NEWS: Why don’t we use modern construction methods more often?

NEWS: China Needs More Infrastructure Investment

NEWS: Billions worth of green infrastructure projects in the works for Africa

OPINION: Addressing the Project Management Skills Deficit within the Construction Industry

NEWS: US infrastructure upgrades face talent shortage crisis

NEWS: Watershed moment for SA infrastructure

NEWS: Dispelling stereotypes of construction workers

NEWS: Infrastructure programme must be catalyst to unlock local industrial capacity

NEWS: A three pronged approach to facing construction challenges head on

NEWS: Effective implementation of PPPs is critical to address infrastructure deficit in Africa

NEWS: Solving Africa’s infrastructure paradox

NEWS: Government recommits to infrastructure investment to support economy - Budget 2022

NEWS: Africa needs smarter investment in digital infrastructure for enticing the private sector

NEWS: South Africa must kickstart stalled infrastructure investment with few select projects – CDE

NEWS: Equal Education looks forward to roll out of new mechanism for school infrastructure delivery - SONA 2022

NEWS: We can cut through the red tape and fast-track infrastructure development in South Africa - Sona 2022

NEWS: Chinese funding of sub-Saharan African infrastructure dwarfs that of West, says think tank

NEWS: For want of an engineer, the water was lost; for want of the water… a country was lost — all for the want of an engineer