The Innovation Challenge: Holding Onto Bold Ideas When Reality Pushes Back

Dr. Sharon Richardson, director of artificial intelligence (AI) at Hoare Lea, A Tetra Tech Company, explores how AI is accelerating change across the built environment and how emerging technologies, such as AI and robotics, can be applied in practice while working within the real-world constraints of engineering and delivery. Innovation is often framed as possibility. New technologies, bold ideas, and future visions dominate the conversation; but in the built environment, innovation quickly…