What does the year 2040 look like? Flying cars, robots, an AI doing most of our thinking? What types of jobs will exist and which will go extinct? What will we have to watch out for and how can we thrive through change? No one really knows, but in this episode, Scott paints a picture of what it could look like for the built environment.

Chapters

00:08 The 15-year horizon: climate, insurance, and infrastructure strain

04:45 AI as standard practice in design and engineering

06:04 LiDAR, inch-accurate surveys, and real-time stormwater simulations

10:19 Immersive BIM: from 3D models to walkable design reviews

13:13 Optimizing materials and reducing carbon with computational tools

14:24 Carbon-neutral construction and the circular economy

16:16 Innovation outpacing codes: the regulatory bottleneck

18:24 From phone video to CAD: rapid as-builts and adaptive reuse

21:17 Agile business models and national collaboration networks

23:30 Visual build guides and tech-forward contractors

25:23 2040 vs 2060: seamless future or peak chaos?

26:46 Ethics, cybersecurity, and the road ahead

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