Suffolk will embed AI engineers within its construction teams
Construction company Suffolk will embed AI engineers within construction teams directly on job sites with the aim of transforming construction delivery nationwide.
The company says its goals include improving design, scheduling, and processes while accelerating productivity, and reducing rework. The initiative, called “Jobsite of the Future,” is designed to support project teams, advance in-house AI solutions, and help bring proven technologies from the field into Suffolk’s standardized operating systems.
Jobsite of the Future consists of innovation workspaces located onsite at projects, equipped with advanced AI tools and real-time project data managed by AI engineers.
“As costs continue to rise, labor shortages persist and productivity declines, the construction industry has reached an inflection point,” said John Fish, chairman and CEO of Suffolk, in a news release. “We believe Jobsite of the Future and our use of artificial intelligence and data will fundamentally change that trajectory and redefine how America builds for generations to come.”
Suffolk set the table for the new initiative more than 10 years ago with an investment of more than $100 million in data, technology infrastructure, and innovation capabilities.
Suffolk’s clean data trough contains about 293 terabytes of structured construction data, which is the equivalent of roughly 75 billion pages of PDFs. If stacked as printed paper, those pages would reach the moon and back several times. Every day, 50 million more pages of new project data flows in from Suffolk jobsites across the country.
