The A.I. Revolution is Accelerating, with Tech Pioneer Paul Doherty

Engineering technology is now at a "watershed moment," says construction technologist and architect Paul Doherty. Artificial intelligence is already performing more than just administrative tasks at design firms, he says. The last remaining hurdle may be convincing clients that new designs generated in hours are just as reliable as the ones that used to take weeks to complete.

An IFMA Fellow and DFC Senior Fellow, Doherty is President and CEO of The Digit Group, Inc., a Smart Cities design firm based in Memphis TN. Here, he also shares a fascinating history of construction technology, from computer-aided design (CAD) to the birth of building information modeling (BIM) to the internet of things (IoT) and connected buildings. The biggest difference today? The game-changing speed of machine learning.