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It has been a while since we posted on here: 500-odd days, Facebook tells us! Over that period, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has come to the fore and is becoming increasingly common across many professions, including structural engineering. It can be a useful tool for assisting with document preparation, organising information, improving presentation and retreiving technical references.
Like any tool, however, its value depends entirely on how it is used. AI does not inspect buildings, observe defects, assess workmanship, understand site-specific conditions or exercise engineering judgement. Those responsibilities must and should remain firmly with the engineer.
At Abovo, AI may be used to assist with administrative and document-related tasks, allowing more time to be devoted to site inspections, engineering assessment and client service. However, it is most definitely *not* used as a substitute for professional judgement, experience or responsibility.
Examples of how we use AI include the collation and organisation of information supplied by clients, retrieval of supporting data, numbering of photographs and cross-referencing them with contemporaneous site notes.
All of our engineering assessments, opinions, calculations, structural drawings and recommendations are prepared by a Chartered Structural Engineer who accepts full responsibility for that work.
