Generative AI in the Construction Industry: A State-of-the-art Analysis

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Main Authors: Taiwo, Ridwan, Bello, Idris Temitope, Abdulai, Sulemana Fatoama, Yussif, Abdul-Mugis, Salami, Babatunde Abiodun, Saka, Abdullahi, Zayed, Tarek
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author Taiwo, Ridwan
Bello, Idris Temitope
Abdulai, Sulemana Fatoama
Yussif, Abdul-Mugis
Salami, Babatunde Abiodun
Saka, Abdullahi
Zayed, Tarek
author_facet Taiwo, Ridwan
Bello, Idris Temitope
Abdulai, Sulemana Fatoama
Yussif, Abdul-Mugis
Salami, Babatunde Abiodun
Saka, Abdullahi
Zayed, Tarek
contents The construction industry is a vital sector of the global economy, but it faces many productivity challenges in various processes, such as design, planning, procurement, inspection, and maintenance. Generative artificial intelligence (AI), which can create novel and realistic data or content, such as text, image, video, or code, based on some input or prior knowledge, offers innovative and disruptive solutions to address these challenges. However, there is a gap in the literature on the current state, opportunities, and challenges of generative AI in the construction industry. This study aims to fill this gap by providing a state-of-the-art analysis of generative AI in construction, with three objectives: (1) to review and categorize the existing and emerging generative AI opportunities and challenges in the construction industry; (2) to propose a framework for construction firms to build customized generative AI solutions using their own data, comprising steps such as data collection, dataset curation, training custom large language model (LLM), model evaluation, and deployment; and (3) to demonstrate the framework via a case study of developing a generative model for querying contract documents. The results show that retrieval augmented generation (RAG) improves the baseline LLM by 5.2, 9.4, and 4.8% in terms of quality, relevance, and reproducibility. This study provides academics and construction professionals with a comprehensive analysis and practical framework to guide the adoption of generative AI techniques to enhance productivity, quality, safety, and sustainability across the construction industry.
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spellingShingle Generative AI in the Construction Industry: A State-of-the-art Analysis
Taiwo, Ridwan
Bello, Idris Temitope
Abdulai, Sulemana Fatoama
Yussif, Abdul-Mugis
Salami, Babatunde Abiodun
Saka, Abdullahi
Zayed, Tarek
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Human-Computer Interaction
Information Retrieval
Machine Learning
The construction industry is a vital sector of the global economy, but it faces many productivity challenges in various processes, such as design, planning, procurement, inspection, and maintenance. Generative artificial intelligence (AI), which can create novel and realistic data or content, such as text, image, video, or code, based on some input or prior knowledge, offers innovative and disruptive solutions to address these challenges. However, there is a gap in the literature on the current state, opportunities, and challenges of generative AI in the construction industry. This study aims to fill this gap by providing a state-of-the-art analysis of generative AI in construction, with three objectives: (1) to review and categorize the existing and emerging generative AI opportunities and challenges in the construction industry; (2) to propose a framework for construction firms to build customized generative AI solutions using their own data, comprising steps such as data collection, dataset curation, training custom large language model (LLM), model evaluation, and deployment; and (3) to demonstrate the framework via a case study of developing a generative model for querying contract documents. The results show that retrieval augmented generation (RAG) improves the baseline LLM by 5.2, 9.4, and 4.8% in terms of quality, relevance, and reproducibility. This study provides academics and construction professionals with a comprehensive analysis and practical framework to guide the adoption of generative AI techniques to enhance productivity, quality, safety, and sustainability across the construction industry.
title Generative AI in the Construction Industry: A State-of-the-art Analysis
topic Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Human-Computer Interaction
Information Retrieval
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09939