EDITOR ' S QUESTION
As the AIA Billings Index reports 19 consecutive months of declining billings , AEC leaders will have to embrace new strategies and technologies to drive efficiency . To improve resilience in a softer market , firms should focus on capturing institutional knowledge and accelerating workflows with AI .
Capturing institutional knowledge
As AI advances , documenting processes and capturing internal know-how will become even more important . In the nottoo-distant future , companies will be able to train large language models to leverage historical projects , discussions and decision points when starting new projects . Firms won ’ t have to reinvent the wheel when starting a new project ; they will be able to leverage insights the firm has had across studios , departments and offices .
This internal tooling could also help level up junior staff . Imagine employees having decades of institutional knowledge at their fingertips . New hires will be able to onboard faster and the firm will see immediate productivity gains . More experienced individuals will be able to jump into a new project type or jurisdiction without the historical hurdle of manually relearning each component .
Companies that have adopted digitalfirst technologies will have a competitive advantage as AI continues to advance . They will be able to harness the AI progress as a tailwind to accelerate their business . Documenting organisational knowledge now will pay dividends in the future .
Accelerating code research with AI
Code compliance is a time-consuming part of the project lifecycle . Platforms such as UpCodes leverage AI to accelerate code research .
Trained on over 6 million code sections and over 200,000 local amendments , UpCodes ’ code research assistant answers project-specific questions in seconds . It also cites its sources and references so AEC professionals can dive into the relevant sections and enrich their compliance understanding faster .
By streamlining code research with AI tools , AEC professionals can spend less time finding , understanding and applying the code . This comes at a time when firms are expected to deliver projects faster and more efficiently . With the right tools , AEC professionals can save hours on compliance research and reinvest that time back into other parts of the project . �
SCOTT REYNOLDS
CEO AND CO-FOUNDER OF UPCODES
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