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Construction must preserve trades knowledge to know when AI is wrong

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Lance Mazzariello is a union carpenter and vice president of Specialty Services of New England. Opinions are the author’s own. There is a moment familiar to anyone who has spent time on a construction site. A younger tradesperson studies a drawing on a tablet. The dimensions are correct, the detail is clear, everything appears to work. An experienced journeyman looks at the same drawing, looks at the wall, and says, “That’s not going to work.” Most of the time, he’s right. How did he know? That question has been on my mind as construction races toward a technological future. I lead operations in union commercial construction in greater Boston, and, like most of our industry, we’re adopting technologies meant to solve problems that have plagued us for decades: inefficient planning, poor communication, labor shortages, rework, scheduling and stagnant productivity. Artificial intelligence is entering estimating and project management.

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