The world of infrastructure is changing. Digital twins, immersive imagery and tools to capitalize on the volumes of useful data are redefining modern engineering delivery. With the potential seemingly limitless, our teams are reimagining, creating and delivering a new wave of smart and sustainable infrastructure. We can’t do it alone, though. Collaboration is the gateway to unlocking potential in this new era.
In this spirit of teamwork, we co-sponsored a hackathon with Google Cloud at Google’s Playa Vista, California, campus. Several of our key clients, forward-thinking engineers and data scientists, and the Google Cloud team created solutions to industry challenges over this three-day event. Specifically, they explored the role of data science in predicting transportation safety performance, automating the interpretation of CCTV sewer network data and empowering our engineers to train artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) models relevant to their everyday work.
With a focus on data as our foundation, we are also exploring the utility of Google Cloud Platform, AI/ML, Maps and other Google Cloud products to offer our engineering expertise to clients at scale. Assessing infrastructure, delivering generative design solutions and solving real-world engineering problems through artificial intelligence are just a few of the trajectories of which our engineering expertise, paired with Google’s Cloud Platform computing power, have the potential to accelerate.
The amount of data that we collect on projects provides invaluable insights into the condition, life expectancy, quality and use of the infrastructure we create. By leveraging this data across markets, geographies, and our many thousands of projects, we can offer our clients unparalleled value through the Google Cloud Platform.
