{"id":1357,"date":"2025-12-01T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T08:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/?p=1357"},"modified":"2026-01-11T11:47:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T10:47:33","slug":"where-ai-is-finding-its-place-across-the-construction-value-chain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/index.php\/2025\/12\/01\/where-ai-is-finding-its-place-across-the-construction-value-chain\/","title":{"rendered":"Where AI is finding its place across the construction value chain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Beyond cement and concrete, AI is changing how we study other materials. It\u2019s being used to design self-healing asphalt roads, detect defects in steel and assess the quality of road aggregates using ultrasound. Researchers are also using it to link data across materials \u2013 from quarry to rebar \u2013 to simulate how infrastructure ages, performs, and can be maintained more efficiently over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These trends aren\u2019t confined to academia. Across the Connecticut construction industry, whose value chain spans everything from aggregates to highways, the same trends are emerging. Producers and contractors alike are looking at ways AI can improve plant efficiency, project scheduling and long-term asset maintenance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/connstructionwinter2025.mydigitalpublication.com\/publication\/frame.php?i=857980&amp;p=13&amp;pn=&amp;ver=html5&amp;view=issueViewer\">https:\/\/connstructionwinter2025.mydigitalpublication.com\/publication\/frame.php?i=857980&amp;p=13&amp;pn=&amp;ver=html5&amp;view=issueViewer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond cement and concrete, AI is changing how we study other materials. It\u2019s being used to design self-healing asphalt roads, detect defects in steel and assess the quality of road aggregates using ultrasound. Researchers are also using it to link data across materials \u2013 from quarry to rebar \u2013 to simulate how infrastructure ages, performs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mit-concrete-sustainability-hub","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1358,"href":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions\/1358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}