When:
April 11, 2019 @ 10:00 am – April 12, 2019 @ 2:00 pm
2019-04-11T10:00:00+05:30
2019-04-12T14:00:00+05:30

The “National Seminar on Artificial Intelligence in Construction” was inaugurated by the Chief Guest Dr. B. Sivarama Sarma (Head R & D, L & T Construction, Chennai) and Guest of Honour Mr. Rohith Nathan Rajagopal IPS (Superintendent of Police, Railways Chennai) along with our respected Principal, KCG College of Technology and HoD, Department of Civil Engineering. The Chief Guest and the Guest of Honour gave a brief introduction about the current trends of Artificial Intelligence and the necessity of the present budding Engineers to learn it.

Expert Lecture  – Post Disaster Building Damage Assessment Using GIS and AI TechnologiesDr. G. P. Ganapathy, Professor,VIT,Vellore

The speaker started with explaining the basics of ‘Artificial Intelligence’ (AI) and proceeded with the assessment procedure of the building damage after the disaster using GIS and AI. Application of the AI in the disaster assessment were the further topics discussed in the session. Several case studies based on the previous disasters occurred in India and other countries, and the possible ways that would be managed using AI were discussed in the session.

Expert Lecture  – Artificial Intelligence in Risk ManagementMr. Sekar Kumbeswara, Director, Sybrant Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Stating with the five processes of project management the speaker explained what is risk, its types and the analysis methods. The process of risk management and the four key factors of risk and measures to overcome those were described in a very interesting way to the participants. Before entering in to the AI part of the risk management, the procedures to perform the quantitative risk analysis were clearly explained which will be the vital part to implement the AI in risk management.

Expert Lecture  – Principles of 3D PrintingMr. K. Padhmanaban, CEO, Stratnel Technoligies Ltd., Bengaluru

The current predominant application of 3D printing is in the Mechanical and Aeronautical Industry. The speaker of the session showed the vision of the application of the 3D printing in the construction industry called as ‘3D concrete printing’. The robotic based 3D printing of concrete when joins with the artificial intelligence of mapping the given template model of a structure and the printing fabrication control of the prototype. Miraculous structures with out of plane symmetricity are possible with this 3D printing and AI venture, were the AI analyse the possible non-confirmative of the stability of the structure and prepare the suitable consistency of the material and section of the structure.

Expert Lecture – BIM on BlockchainMr.Srinivasan Sundarrajan, Technical advisor, GAVS Technologies, Chennai
Artificial Intelligence in Block Chain technology and BIM and the increased potential in Building Construction (off-site activities) were discussed in the session. For example, if a main contractor completes all their current tasks, on time and within, or on budget, this information can be verified within the block chain for all users to comment on and agree. One other important topic discussed was ‘Digital Twins’ application in construction with ‘Physical space’ – ‘Virtual Space’ examples.
Expert Lecture – AI-ML-RPA in Construction IndustryMr.M.Ravichandran.  CEO and Founder, Terafast Networks Pvt. Ltd.
The application of ‘Artificial Intelligence – Machine Learning – Robotic Process Automation’ in the Construction Industry were agenda of the session. Examples like Facebook Photo Tagging, UBER Eats, Google translator were discussed to understand the concepts of AI-ML-RPA and future of construction industry in AI and scope for the Engineers are presented.