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Use cases that certainly a lot of our clients are getting interested and excited about are probably into three or four buckets.
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So the first of those is everything around design productivity.
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So the thing that's very cool about Gen AI
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and in fact AI more broadly is it allows you to start to
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automate some of the tasks which take engineers
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and architects a lot of time at the moment
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but don't necessarily add huge amounts of values
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that might be you know generating design specifications
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it might be about deciding exactly how high off the ground the door handle should be right
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and the great thing about design optimization is it creates capacity with engineers
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and architects to really focus on the highly complex novel problems right which is which is quite an exciting opportunity.
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I think the other kind of big collection and use cases we see is everything around planning and scheduling.
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So, yeah, planning and construction planning is typically a bit of a dark art in construction.
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There is some science behind it, but it's definitely there's elements of being a dark art,
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and that's borne out with some of the schedule adherence we see typically in construction and infrastructure projects,
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with projects typically running over budget and over time.
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There are tools out there and companies out there
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that actually use AI to learn from historic project delivery to improve the accuracy of scheduled forecasting
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and actually do that almost in real time.
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So day by day
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or week by week you're coming up with a more accurate view of the schedule
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and actually recommendations on how you might redeploy resources with a schedule.
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Some of the most exciting opportunities
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and most disruptive are looking at the impact of environmental impact on design
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and feasibility so looking at future scenarios where flooding wind storms excessive heat will impact on a concept
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so as we help clients and we help design
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and engineering companies plan ahead and think of their optimal design there are
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so many different scenarios
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that we can now generate using AI to really think ahead of the future and make sure that these assets,
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these important buildings that are getting constructed or road infrastructures are going to stand the test of time.
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The engineering challenges we have are more complex than what we've ever seen before over the next 30 to 50 years,
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right, when we talk about the decarbonisation challenge,
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and we're trying to do that when we've got a capacity constraint in the industry we don't have enough engineers, we don't have enough architects,
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we don't have enough capacity in the construction industry.
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Gen AI, AI and actually digital tools more broadly are a way of bridging that productivity gap.
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Look, this isn't the panacea for all solutions, there are going to be limitations for this
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and I think what we need to be aware of that this technology is not about replacing people, it's about augmenting the process,
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about making sure that we're using human interaction on the most complex elements
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and that the basics are done right first time we get to brilliant basics quickly
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but there's a lot of buzz and excitement rightly
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so about gen ai and ai at the moment
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and some of the use cases we've described it have huge potential massively exciting but it's really important to remember that
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construction is a it's the biggest industry in the world
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it's one of the most fragmented it's mainly made up of small
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and medium you know artisanal craftspeople and small construction companies
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and it's always going to be a hands -on physical business
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that relies on skilled hard working people on the front line
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and that that isn't going to change anytime soon right
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so I think we need to be need to recognize
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that AI has an opportunity to you know augment the work
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that we do on a site it has an opportunity to accelerate design
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and streamline the design process
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but it's not going to change the kind of physical act
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of building stuff out on a out on a building site
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which the other kind of reality check we need to do is
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that this depends on data as well and this is something
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that most industries struggle with that construction particularly struggles with
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because of this level of fragmentation
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and you need to have a solid data layer to be
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able to deliver many of these use cases one of the challenges is
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that the industry from an engineering perspective is based on hours
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and suddenly there's a potential to do things instantly in a nanosecond at zero real cost how do we monetize
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that how do we incentivize
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the technology companies the engineering companies
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and the owners to collaborate ultimately an owner will benefit
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when their schedules reduce their cost to build
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and time to market is reduced and we're talking about projects
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that are often in the millions if not billions
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so how do we help the ecosystem the supply chain ecosystem benefit from
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that transformation because otherwise there'll be as much of a risk of low
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and slow adoption as there is of going too fast and getting it wrong.
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The question
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that I'm hearing a lot is what does this mean for my business is it kind of exciting hype
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that I can kind of ignore for a few months
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or is it something that's fundamentally going to change the business
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and yeah every business will be different right
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but the way we think about it is as an engineering
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company how can you use AI to more accurately predict
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and monitor energy consumption in an office building in real time and offer real -time solutions to optimise energy consumption.
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I would be looking and guiding organisations towards finding some low -hanging fruit,
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something that is contained and managed that you can change as a whole system level.
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Because this isn't just about adopting technology quickly.
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It's about changing the sales and marketing teams, the incentives for those sales teams to sell a new solution in a different commercial way.
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And the potential impact of working new in a new way where it's not an hours -based business
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or a lump sum type business is quite huge.
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And I can see some companies getting stuck with the enormity of this.
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So run the whole changes through the entire lifecycle of the services
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that are provided to the clients through to commercials and billing
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and make sure the whole team are working in
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that way almost as a product team and taking that to market and learning from that is really important.
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Although the technology is relatively new actually the approach to transformation is one
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that we've we've seen before we're familiar with right so that
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and there's two dimensions to it the first is you identify the business domains
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and the use cases where this is going to create most value right
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so it might be to improve your win rate
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and tendering it might be to reduce accidents on site it might be to improve engineering productivity
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but which use cases are going to create real business value
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and then on the feasibility right
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so do we have the data to be able to do this do we have the systems and
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if not is it going to be a significant investment to
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get the right systems in place do we have um actual skills to help us build uh
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and administer the technology and either build or integrate with the right models
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and then from that develop a list of a short list of use cases
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and go and execute the pilots before scaling right
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but it's it's very easy to get excited about the technology for technology's sake
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but it must be grounded in in in business impact at the end the day.
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I think AEC companies need to focus on the value pools.
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Where is this going to have the biggest impact but not go too large at the beginning?
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Really get something proven and working and deployed and get the rest of the organization behind it.
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That's how I'd be tackling this but also you know engineers like to design,
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they like to own and build and there's going to be a preference to own
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and build this technology and I think that existing technology companies
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and startups are pure play invested in this area already and have already been moving in this direction.
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So adopting and working with the right technology partners from the outset is really important.

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Cette leçon d’expression orale s’appuie sur la vidéo « Harnessing generative AI in architecture, engineering & construction ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : technology, design, companies, construction, cases. Cette vidéo contient 114 phrases et 1438 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 8:41. Le locuteur parle à un rythme naturel d’environ 166 mots par minute, proche d’une conversation courante. 87 % des mots font partie des 3 000 mots les plus courants en anglais, le vocabulaire est donc facile à suivre.

Vocabulaire clé de cette vidéo

15 mots de la vidéo à retenir, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :

MotPrononciationSens
productivity nom/ˌpɹɒdʌkˈtɪvəti/productivité
architect nom/ˈɑɹ.kɪˌtɛkt/architecte
element nom/ˈɛləmənt/élément
infrastructure nom/ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹʌkt͡ʃə/infrastructure
skill nom/skɪl/habileté, compétence
consumption nom/kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/consommation
generate verbe/ˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.ɹeɪt/générer
transformation nom/ˌtɹæns.fɔɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/transformation
adopt verbe/əˈdɑpt/adopter
scenario nom/sɪˈnɛəɹioʊ/scénario
ecosystem nom/ˈikoʊˌsɪstəm/écosystème
ignore verbe/ɪɡˈnɔː/ignorer, ne pas prêter attention à
necessarily adverbe/ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/absolument, nécessairement
layer nom/ˈleɪ̯ɚ/couche
resource nom/ɹɪˈzɔːs/ressource

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MotSens
come up with verbeinventer, imaginer
run over verberenverser

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Les structures que le locuteur utilise le plus, avec les mots exacts de la vidéo :

StructureDans la vidéo
Voix passive be + participe passé — l’accent est mis sur ce qui arrive, pas sur qui le faitare done · is based · is reduced
Present perfect have/has + participe passé — une action passée qui compte encore maintenantwe've ever seen · we've described · we've seen

Prononciation à surveiller

Le locuteur utilise 20 contractions et formes réduites, comme we've, don't, we're. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.

  • Les sons « sh » et « zh »: consumption /kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/, transformation /ˌtɹæns.fɔɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/, organisation /ˈɔː.ɡə.naɪˌzeɪ.ʃən/, interaction /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/, adoption /əˈdɑp.ʃən/
  • Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: productivity /ˌpɹɒdʌkˈtɪvəti/, infrastructure /ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹʌkt͡ʃə/, transformation /ˌtɹæns.fɔɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/, ecosystem /ˈikoʊˌsɪstəm/, necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/

Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :

  • /h/ — il se souffle, il n’est pas muet: hype /haɪp/, adherence /ədˈhɪə.ɹəns/
  • /tʃ/ et /dʒ/ — à ne pas adoucir en « ch » et « j »: infrastructure /ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹʌkt͡ʃə/, generate /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.ɹeɪt/
  • /r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: productivity /ˌpɹɒdʌkˈtɪvəti/, architect /ˈɑɹ.kɪˌtɛkt/, infrastructure /ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹʌkt͡ʃə/, generate /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.ɹeɪt/, transformation /ˌtɹæns.fɔɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/

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  2. Commencez à la vitesse 0,75×, répétez phrase par phrase, puis revenez à la vitesse normale quand cela devient facile.
  3. Enregistrez-vous et comparez avec l’original, en faisant attention à des mots comme productivity, architect, element.

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