CASE STUDY:
Using AI to manage project risk at scale
The Newmetrix AI engine, Vinnie, is trained with more than 17 Million examples of construction-specific photo, video and other data. Vinnie is always learning to find new indicators of risk with new capabilities (and improvements to existing ones) being released continually.
Our construction-trained AI, Vinnie, automatically detects more than 100 safety hazards on jobsite imagery. Get risk-reducing insights, dashboards and safety risk assessment reports that enable cross-project benchmarking for leading indicators of risk.
SafetyThe name Vinnie originated from the CIO of a large contractor in the New York City area. At one time he was explaining how they had recently “found” some photo and video content that was critical to a claim. When asked how they knew where to find that content, he matter-of-factly replied, “Vinnie remembered.” Vinnie, in this case, was a superintendent located in New Jersey who had a great memory for where specific site imagery was stored. So we’ve built construction-tuned AI into our product so that now every company can have a “Vinnie”. In addition to knowing where to find your photos and videos, he is always looking for, finding and creating indicators of project risk. Read more about Vinnie’s background.
“Newmetrix complemented our human-based observations with a third-party AI perspective. Both are necessary for understanding risk and deciding where to focus our attention. For example, when Vinnie found a high rate of housekeeping issues on an otherwise well performing project, we immediately reviewed examples and found the project had begun demolition, creating piles of debris and standing water. We provided additional resources to the site, including a tool box talk, as the project had now entered this higher risk phase. Without Vinnie, we never would have known to give the project some added support.”
- Shaun Carvalho, Vice President of Safety, Shawmut