Tag: speed
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AI data extraction tool tested to speed up planning
Extract uses AI to ‘read’ planning documents and pull out useful information. First, it uses AI to understand the text, finding key details like permitted development rights, addresses and dates. Then, it identifies and extracts maps, using computer vision to trace boundaries and define specific areas. Finally, it uses geolocation techniques to place those areas…
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How Zachry Construction used AI to speed up its estimating process
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. When contractors bid on a project, they’re often on a short, often unforgiving timer. Zachry Construction, headquartered in San Antonio, feels this crunch on infrastructure projects, where the estimation process can lead to a race against the…
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Alternative delivery methods can help speed, simplify civil projects
Listen to the article 6 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Sami Soufi is vice president and program manager for rail and transportation at Mt. Laurel, New Jersey-based program management firm Hill International. Opinions are the author’s own. My first exposure to alternative delivery infrastructure projects was in…