Adi Shavit believes construction documentation is the most under-automated part of architecture, and he has the production data to prove it. As co-founder and CTO of SWAPP.AI, he and his team have shipped permitted CD sets for over 25 million square feet of real buildings: schools, hospitals, and commercial projects — across multiple architecture firms. Before SWAPP, he spent seven years at Autodesk leading the AI and computer-vision algorithms group for the AEC division, after Autodesk acquired his startup, Homestyler, in 2012. He is a speaker and organizer of international conferences, holds multiple patents, and has an MSc in Computer Science specilaizing in CV, ML and AI.
Architecture is entering the age of agents. SWAPP AI has been producing the construction documents of real buildings, every day, for years, for some of the largest firms. This talk is about what it actually takes to build agents that survive the architect’s daily work, the partner’s review, and the security team’s audit. And what we’ve learned about the future of architectural production from running it at scale.
One of the first areas to be hit by automation will be documentation.
Since the popularity of BIM has led to the mushrooming of documentation, a raft of tools are coming to try and drive automated drawings.
Our panel will discuss the current latest technology, how this can be deployed and how much money and time can be saved.
Chair
Martyn Day // AEC Magazine & NXT BLD
Panelists
Adi Shavit / SWAPP
Robert Graebert // Graebert
Andrea Matta // Ideatura
Bill Allen // Chaos
