Shobhit Baadkar spoke on a panel at an industry gathering discussing the Landside Access Modernization program at LAX.
mean, it still needs humans to review and provide oversight, but AI is completely changing the industry very quickly. SHOBHIT BAADKAR: People who are not adapting to change are being left behind. Which is why we invite them to come to BIMpulse. Instead of being led by fear, we invite them to come and ask the right questions and talk to other people who are dealing with the same issues. Te point of BIMpulse is to be on the cutting edge of technology. CALIFORNIA CONSTRUCTOR: Besides AI, what are some of the other leading is- sues people are talking about, particularly when it comes to technology integration? SHOBHIT BAADKAR: A lot of it right now is how do we take the data into the field, right? Because the designers are designing it on their desks in the office and then print out a set of plans. But how do we leverage that model information in the field? CALIFORNIA CONSTRUCTOR:Big data is in the news lately for its applications on projects. How do you approach it? SHOBHIT BAADKAR: Our company has scanned 48 million square feet of projects – hospitals, airports, arenas, data centers, warehouses, adaptive reuse buildings, etc. And we actually have a data
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scientist here. Half his time is spent on projects building in these dashboards; the other half of his time is spent on research and development. Now he’s also gotten into the AI space, looking at different AI platforms, whether it’s ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, or Grok. I feel like it’s almost an arms race.
Tere are a lot of firms that have mas- tered BIM and have said, “Okay, we’ve got the 3D modeling down, so what’s next for us?” It’s 4D, 5D BIM, and then data science and big data. And now we have customers saying, “Okay, we have all this data; how can we use it to make better decisions?” CALIFORNIA CONSTRUCTOR: What excites you most about what you’re doing and the way this industry is evolving with technology?
SHOBHIT BAADKAR:What excites me is that it’s just something new every day, especially with AI. It feels like the things I spoke about at the AGC Emerging Leaders Conference (just a few months ago) are no longer valid. It changes so rapidly with AI that what happened two weeks ago is invalid today. So, what excites me is just to see technology come out and be advanced and people thinking about solutions, not trying to build the next Facebook or the next photo sharing app or something silly, but to build real things that will help us enrich our lives. My guys (at TITAN AEC) get a very big kick out of being part of the AEC industry, taking their families to Intuit Dome or LAX, and being able to say, “I had a hand in that.” Everyone on our team is proud of the work we’ve done in this industry.
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