By Francisco Maranchello, COO of e-verse

Three Projections for the AEC Industry in 2024

After a year of interesting advancements due to the surge of AI in the AEC industry, expectations for 2024 are rising.

However, this market sector and its growing startup ecosystem still face many challenges.

1: AI, The Buzzword of the Day

As always, in the tech industry, there’s a buzzword. Like IoT in 2015, or blockchain in 2019, in 2023, that’s Artificial Intelligence.

“What’s interesting to me is that, although other industries have been impacted more by this technology so far, and that there have been interesting developments in our industry too, there are many opportunities yet to be explored.

Even though there are lots of smart people working on AI for image generation and full design automation, both areas intricately related to the AEC industry, there is still so much to be created” Francisco added, regarding AI specifically applied to the AEC industry.

Other industries like software or manufacturing have modularized their knowledge and designs, but AEC starts almost from scratch on every project in architecture.

We’ve recently seen increasing developments focused on leveraging BIM data to provide insights to users about their models, perform direct actions on those models, and use existing data to feed future designs, going from massing to, say, 70% of the design -not trying to automate everything, but going most of the way and leaving the rest of the creative part to humans-.

Hopefully, this trend will continue advancing as we see startups in this space like Skema grow.
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