Lean Construction Ireland Annual Book of Cases 2021 52 l f 2 Summary and Lessons Learned The use of AI is becoming more apparent in the construction industry and early adoption is key to closing the gap of labour productivity relative to other industries. Harnessing this technology is paramount to digitising the industry even further and this is yet another great example of how every small step counts. The benefits that arose from the solution to this challenge have had a positive impact to many stakeholders, primarily due to the timesaving aspect of the solution. Improved quality of captured data and increased productivity are the two main benefits of this initiative,but it has also opened the door to research into more ways of applying AI and document processing in the construction industry. Further functionality and integration with other systems using this application are currently being explored at Sisk in order to carry on streamlining more processes throughout the business. At Sisk we continue to disrupt the industry with the use of technology to improve, adapt and overcome new challenges we face, enabling Sisk to remain competitive and deliver projects faster and safer all the while maintaining quality standards. Case 11 In terms of future functionality, Sisk are looking to develop additional features, which facilitate this auditing process. For example, the automatic sending of emails when cubes have not reached the desired strength. In addition to this, forms with greater variability are being explored. For example, invoices and a wider range of delivery tickets. This could also be combined with a “picture” functionality, whereby the recipient of a hard copy of the form can take a photo and automatically see the document reviewed and catalogued. In addition to the benefits of the tool itself, this initiative has highlighted an additional consideration.The tool was developed by a graduate engineer on one of our projects who had no previous formal training in data science, but who had learnt a few key overall principles and was able to teach himself techniques through freely available online videos.This has shown the potentially transformative power of empowering more junior members of our project teams to develop solutions to problems that they see in their day-to-day roles.While a business-wide roll-out of this tool will require the rigour and project management of our IT Department, Sisk are looking to gather and implement more grassroots change initiatives through the re-establishment of a Project Management Office (PMO) and the founding of an information“DataAcademy” community.
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