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5 books on AI for Construction [PDF]
February 24, 2025 | 18 |
Books on AI for Construction provide startups with essential knowledge and insights into the intersection of artificial intelligence and the construction industry, offering a comprehensive foundation. These resources delve into various applications of AI in construction, such as project management, safety monitoring, equipment optimization, and design. They illuminate the ways AI can enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and improve safety on construction sites. Moreover, these books often include practical examples and best practices, allowing startups to learn from successful implementations and adapt AI solutions to their specific construction projects.
1. AI in Material Science: Revolutionizing Construction in the Age of Industry 4.0
2024 by Syed Saad, Syed Ammad, Kumeel Rasheed
In a universe where bricks and mortar once reigned supreme, AI in Material Science: Revolutionizing Construction in the Age of Industry 4.0 arrives like a particularly enthusiastic robot armed with a blueprint and a dream. This book ventures boldly into the dazzling world of artificial intelligence, not just to optimize your materials, but to turn the entire concept of construction on its head, give it a pat and send it off smarter than it ever thought possible. From AI's evolution (which, it turns out, isn’t just a plot for world domination) to the wonders of smart materials and automated gizmos, this tome is your hitchhiker's guide to a future where machines might just design your house better than your cousin Dave. Ethical dilemmas, future predictions and a sense of awe blend seamlessly, offering a ride through the wild and wonderful collision of algorithms and architecture that would make even Marvin the Paranoid Android crack a digital smile.
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2. AI and IoT Meet Mobile Machines: Towards a Smart Working Site
2022 by Xiang, Yusheng
In the grand, chaotic ballet of humanity's quest to stack rocks higher and dig holes faster, AI and IoT Meet Mobile Machines ventures boldly into the construction site's dusty, noisy heart, proposing a brilliant (and slightly cheeky) idea: why not let the machines do the thinking? With a wink towards the ineffable mysteries of Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things, the book sketches a vision of a "smart working site," where fleets of tireless machines communicate, coordinate and (probably) complain about their Wi-Fi signals, all in the name of boosting productivity and making infrastructure development slightly less like herding caffeinated cats.
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3. Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Engineering, Management, and Safety of Infrastructure
2022 by M.Z. Naser
In a universe where bridges sag under existential dread, roads contemplate their purpose and buildings wonder if they’re truly "structurally sound," the brilliant chaos of infrastructure engineering faces an upheaval the likes of which it hasn’t seen since someone decided "roundabouts" were a good idea. Enter Artificial Intelligence, the improbable hitchhiker in this cosmic journey of girders, asphalt and occasional concrete poetry. This book, an utterly indispensable guide for anyone who's ever looked at a crumbling overpass and thought, "Surely there’s a clever algorithm for this," explores the surreal intersection of civil engineering and AI. Packed with contributions from globally caffeinated researchers, it flings readers headlong into a dazzling mix of physical experiments, simulations and case studies so futuristic they might as well come with their own jetpack. From students barely clinging to their AutoCAD assignments to officials who think urban planning is just SimCity with more meetings, this tome offers insights to build not just smarter infrastructure but smarter, less befuddled humans to manage it.
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4. The Construction Technology Handbook
2021 by Hugh Seaton
In a universe teetering on the brink of a technological epiphany—though mostly still stuck in traffic—The Construction Technology Handbook by Hugh Seaton serves as the improbably helpful guide no one realized they desperately needed. With a tone as soothing as an AI-powered bulldozer on a mission of mercy, this book unpacks the bewildering mysteries of construction tech without resorting to the usual cryptic runes and jargonese. From the wobbly tightrope walk between software and data to the questionably sane idea of AI on construction sites (don't worry, no Skynet here—probably), it offers practical wisdom wrapped in a warm blanket of accessibility. Peppered with glimpses of futuristic tools that might one day finally make Mondays less terrifying, this handbook is equally suited for the overworked contractor, the visionary firm leader, or anyone else in construction wondering, “Is there an app for this?” Spoiler: there is and this book helps you understand why it probably won’t crash.
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5. AI-Based Services for Smart Cities and Urban Infrastructure
2020 by Lyu, Kangjuan, Hu, Min, Du, Juan, Sugumaran, Vijayan
In a world where cities are becoming less like places and more like overachieving gadgets, AI-Based Services for Smart Cities and Urban Infrastructure steps in to ask all the important questions: "What if your streetlight was smarter than you?" and "Can a city have an existential crisis?" This book is a hitchhiker's guide to the brave new world of urban AI, unraveling how artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things are teaming up to turn everything from traffic jams to construction sites into sleek, data-driven marvels—or perhaps, finely tuned disasters. With a cast of unsuspecting humans like engineers, urban planners and policymakers, it lays out the bewildering dance between groundbreaking innovation and the occasional bout of citywide chaos, all while reassuring us that your bus stop probably won’t start demanding reparations for emotional labor—yet.
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1. AI in Material Science: Revolutionizing Construction in the Age of Industry 4.0
2024 by Syed Saad, Syed Ammad, Kumeel Rasheed
In a universe where bricks and mortar once reigned supreme, AI in Material Science: Revolutionizing Construction in the Age of Industry 4.0 arrives like a particularly enthusiastic robot armed with a blueprint and a dream. This book ventures boldly into the dazzling world of artificial intelligence, not just to optimize your materials, but to turn the entire concept of construction on its head, give it a pat and send it off smarter than it ever thought possible. From AI's evolution (which, it turns out, isn’t just a plot for world domination) to the wonders of smart materials and automated gizmos, this tome is your hitchhiker's guide to a future where machines might just design your house better than your cousin Dave. Ethical dilemmas, future predictions and a sense of awe blend seamlessly, offering a ride through the wild and wonderful collision of algorithms and architecture that would make even Marvin the Paranoid Android crack a digital smile.
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2. AI and IoT Meet Mobile Machines: Towards a Smart Working Site
2022 by Xiang, Yusheng
In the grand, chaotic ballet of humanity's quest to stack rocks higher and dig holes faster, AI and IoT Meet Mobile Machines ventures boldly into the construction site's dusty, noisy heart, proposing a brilliant (and slightly cheeky) idea: why not let the machines do the thinking? With a wink towards the ineffable mysteries of Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things, the book sketches a vision of a "smart working site," where fleets of tireless machines communicate, coordinate and (probably) complain about their Wi-Fi signals, all in the name of boosting productivity and making infrastructure development slightly less like herding caffeinated cats.
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3. Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Engineering, Management, and Safety of Infrastructure
2022 by M.Z. Naser
In a universe where bridges sag under existential dread, roads contemplate their purpose and buildings wonder if they’re truly "structurally sound," the brilliant chaos of infrastructure engineering faces an upheaval the likes of which it hasn’t seen since someone decided "roundabouts" were a good idea. Enter Artificial Intelligence, the improbable hitchhiker in this cosmic journey of girders, asphalt and occasional concrete poetry. This book, an utterly indispensable guide for anyone who's ever looked at a crumbling overpass and thought, "Surely there’s a clever algorithm for this," explores the surreal intersection of civil engineering and AI. Packed with contributions from globally caffeinated researchers, it flings readers headlong into a dazzling mix of physical experiments, simulations and case studies so futuristic they might as well come with their own jetpack. From students barely clinging to their AutoCAD assignments to officials who think urban planning is just SimCity with more meetings, this tome offers insights to build not just smarter infrastructure but smarter, less befuddled humans to manage it.
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4. The Construction Technology Handbook
2021 by Hugh Seaton
In a universe teetering on the brink of a technological epiphany—though mostly still stuck in traffic—The Construction Technology Handbook by Hugh Seaton serves as the improbably helpful guide no one realized they desperately needed. With a tone as soothing as an AI-powered bulldozer on a mission of mercy, this book unpacks the bewildering mysteries of construction tech without resorting to the usual cryptic runes and jargonese. From the wobbly tightrope walk between software and data to the questionably sane idea of AI on construction sites (don't worry, no Skynet here—probably), it offers practical wisdom wrapped in a warm blanket of accessibility. Peppered with glimpses of futuristic tools that might one day finally make Mondays less terrifying, this handbook is equally suited for the overworked contractor, the visionary firm leader, or anyone else in construction wondering, “Is there an app for this?” Spoiler: there is and this book helps you understand why it probably won’t crash.
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5. AI-Based Services for Smart Cities and Urban Infrastructure
2020 by Lyu, Kangjuan, Hu, Min, Du, Juan, Sugumaran, Vijayan
In a world where cities are becoming less like places and more like overachieving gadgets, AI-Based Services for Smart Cities and Urban Infrastructure steps in to ask all the important questions: "What if your streetlight was smarter than you?" and "Can a city have an existential crisis?" This book is a hitchhiker's guide to the brave new world of urban AI, unraveling how artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things are teaming up to turn everything from traffic jams to construction sites into sleek, data-driven marvels—or perhaps, finely tuned disasters. With a cast of unsuspecting humans like engineers, urban planners and policymakers, it lays out the bewildering dance between groundbreaking innovation and the occasional bout of citywide chaos, all while reassuring us that your bus stop probably won’t start demanding reparations for emotional labor—yet.
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2. Enter Book ID to the search box and press Enter
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