Keeping an eye on how construction projects are progressing is often a matter of emailing a few key people and hoping they get back to you. But when managing large capital projects, public owners now have a bit of artificial intelligence to keep an eye on things.
Aurigo’s Masterworks software is used by many state departments of transportation and municipalities to manage their construction portfolios. The 2021 edition now includes a sentiment analysis function that can study the language of project documents to assess a project’s overall mood.