Autodesk has made a plan to produce pype, which is a startup based on DC area which has created Artificial Intelligence-based software to manage spec books and submittals, and even the document common to the construction industry. These submittals holds the information of shop drawings, cut sheets, and other data, in the form of paper or digital and these will be shared between contractor, architects, and engineers.
Pype’s CTO, Karuna Ammireddy announced that the major challenge for the engineering and data science teams is tackling unstructured data in construction drawings. In addition to that, the co-founder of the company said that they used five years of project data to develop and train the Artificial Intelligence engine to surface actionable project insights.
The construction software of Autodesk can help the companies to create the form manually but the pype’s software can do that work automatically by identifying the data that are should be extracted from the existing documents. The CEO, Andrew Anagnost said that Pype software will further be developed from the objective of Autodesk software by helping users to digitalize the workflow process of the entire construction, from planning and making design to project management and operation in the field.
To improve the speed of adopting this particular technology, the Autodesk software answers with a lot of technology. There will be no more availability of general contractor who has to pore over a spec book which moreover contains more than thousand pages of drawings, material specs and warranties marking it up with a red pen, which is the process that can take weeks with a big project.
Until now, the technology that was technology was given the knowledge of helping to make the information overload. The first step in the process is digitalizing the drawing, and converting analog information into digital data. The raster data is considered to be useless and might turn to be “vectorized” into CAD geometry. This CAD data was improvised by digital documents. The new sources for the content should be obtained from torrents of data, by adding each to the digital load.
The data management on such a massive scale is not the one which is signed up by the construction workers, their manager, or their firms. The data specialist at the top of the tech food chain, are now manipulated by tech firms.
Therefore, if the construction industry and tools in its software can create data on tsunami, and there is no existence of data specialists to ride in to rescue them.
