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Vienna, June 25, 2025 – AI is fundamentally transforming value creation across all industries, including construction. In response, European technology company thinkers.ai today announces a strategic initiative for the complete digitization and AI-driven transformation of traditional construction companies. The goal is to work with established construction firms in the DACH region to design and systematically implement Europe’s first fully AI-managed construction company — a game changer for productivity, sustainability, and the skilled labor shortage in the industry, based on close collaboration between technology providers and industry leaders.
“What used to take months, AI-powered construction planning now accomplishes in hours — from project identification to workforce allocation,” says Dr. Isabell Claus, Managing Director of thinkers.ai. “We’re at the beginning of a new era in construction: more precise, resource-efficient, and automated. The consequences need to be considered holistically and urgently.”
The Path to an AI-Based Construction Company: Three Development Phases
Phase 1: Digital Foundation (0–12 months)
Focus areas include integrating existing data, the importance of BIM (Building Information Modeling), IoT sensors on construction sites, and AI-supported planning tools for sales, time, and cost estimation.
Phase 2: Automated Coordination (12–36 months)
AI takes over key coordination functions, including dynamic scheduling, autonomous inventory management, real-time site monitoring via drones, and error prediction through computer vision.
Phase 3: Autonomous Construction Process (36–60 months)
This phase involves robotics, modular manufacturing, 3D printing, and AI-based decision-making logic that manages the majority of the construction process — while human expertise remains essential in strategy, oversight, and client communication.
Transforming “Traditional” Construction Companies – A Realistic Roadmap
According to thinkers.ai, such a comprehensive transformation of a medium-sized construction company — in parallel with ongoing AI advancements — requires 4 to 6 years, depending on data availability, company size, and readiness for change. However, through intelligent retrofit strategies and modular solutions, significant efficiency gains can already be achieved within the first year.
Building with Algorithms Instead of Blueprints – Why Now?
The construction sector is struggling with exploding costs, labor shortages, and often inefficient processes. While other industries are far more digitally advanced, construction is still seen as a “sleeping giant” in many areas. AI can not only awaken this sector — it can reinvent it.
“We don’t see construction companies as building sites, but as platforms — and AI as the architect of this new reality,” Claus explains.
AI First: Join, Develop a Concrete Strategy, and Be Ready for the Future
The strategic initiative by thinkers.ai starts with the end goal of an “AI-first construction company” in mind and systematically derives the necessary automation potentials — always aligned with the current state of AI technology. Several well-known companies have already joined the initiative, and additional partners are welcome.
The focus lies on targeted, detailed strategy development that, at the right pace, results in significant medium- and long-term competitive advantages for participating companies — while anticipating major transformations across the industry and broader economy.
The initiative operates entirely online, enabling knowledge exchange across all DACH countries. AI prototypes and tools are continuously tested. The overall collaboration will continue through November 2025 — interested companies can join at any time free of charge.
