AI agents: a new tool for the building services and civil engineering field
The AI Champion project is developing 100 AI agents designed to improve automation and information flow in the building services and civil engineering fields' supply chains. The first of these agents is already in trial use, and work has begun on building the agent library.
“The agent library serves as a repository for the AI agents being developed and supports their reuse and adaptation in different situations,” explains Jussi Rasku, the work package leader, the deputy director of the GPT-Lab research group at the Tampere University, and a postdoctoral researcher.
The goal of AI agents is, for example, to eliminate technical bottlenecks in system integration and to combine the fragmented systems of the construction industry into a single seamless whole.
“The first prototype of the agent library has been released, and we gathered ideas for it from our consortium during the project’s first Show and Tell day in early April. In addition, we have our first AI agent in testing.”
The first AI agent of the project is the AI Act & Governance Assistant
The European Union’s AI Act does not prevent the use of artificial intelligence when one knows what one is doing, but a thorough understanding of the regulation promotes operations across the entire building services and civil engineering field. The AI Champion project consortium identified a shared need to expand the scope of support for the AI Act’s AI-assisted application to also include compliance with requirements regarding the processing of personal data, which is central to the AI Champion initiative.
“The agent resolves and understands legal issues related to the flow of building data, among other things, and provides users with assurance that the system complies with regulations”, says Mika Lehtimäki, a postdoctoral researcher at the Tampere University.
In the future, the agent will evolve into a general legal review agent and provide the AI Champion agent system with the intelligence to understand limitations and comply with legislation.
You can check out the beta version of the agent
Read about the principles guiding the agent's activities
“The AI Champion project is progressing as planned, and we can expect major strides forward as agent development continues in line with the selected use cases. I am particularly pleased with the active collaboration within our consortium, a good example of which was the first Show and Tell day in early April”, says Piia Sormunen, Associate Professor and project coordinator at Tampere University.
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