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I started my early studies with computer science at high school and had computers and 3D as a part of every day life like any other IT interested teenager.

I left the IT field to pursue an collage education and professional career in construction-engineering with an assigned role of project manager for a 300 M£ hospital construction project at the age of 26.

Upon learning about deep machine learning (a part of artificial intelligence) I immediately realized both the practical and economic benefits the application of deep machine learning trough computer vision and cognitive computing would bring to my field of work.

My business idea is developing a wetware (AI "software") that uses deep machine learning to "learn" the process of planing constructions just by "watching" engineers/architects working in 3D CAD-software.

This 3D-CAD wetware will further be helped by cognitive software that helps guide it trough the complex decisions and processes of construction design by incorporating information fetched directly from scientific texts about thermodynamics, physics, price, geometric data and so on connected to certain facts found directly in the 3D CAD-components that make up an 3D CAD-model (for example what material a 3D-component is supposed to be made of in reality). 

Step 2 in developing this intelligent construction robot will be using these 3D CAD-models to guide an industrial robot attached to a heavy terrain transport vehicle (a container stacker for example).

The industrial robot attached to the transport vehicle will be picking up the building parts from a fixed material depot on site and "stack"/"apply" the parts in to a complete building in an pre-defined order determined by the wetware.

The transport vehicle and the robot will be guided by cameras using photo-recognition to identify the individual building-parts when they are being picked up from the material depot on site. Upon picking up the correct part the vehicle and robot will be guided by following the coordinates that the wetware compiled 3D CAD-model makes up. The zero-point in this x-y-z-coordinate system would be set at the coordinates and height of one of the building corners.

 Buildings are what makes our entire society and around 10% of all construction costs consist of the costs for engineers and architects and around 40% of all costs consist of labor costs so there are billions of dollars in developing a wetware that just makes all the rational decisions in designing a building and further an all-terrain construction robot.

I agree with the folks at Google DeepMind I've spoken to on their estimate on this being about 5-10 years in to the future but not working out the architecture for this solution would be a shame when that day comes.

Some of the "free" benefits to this sort of construction planing are the VR-models that can be generated directly in the 3D-CAD models (seen here rendered by me in one manually compiled 3D CAD-model http://pano.autodesk.com/pano.html?url=jpgs/daf3bb83-c571-475e-9756-6be0134120f9 (open it in your phone for best effect ,and use a pair of VR-goggles)

This solution would revolutionize the entire developed part of our planet since buildings pretty much make up the physical environment of our society, It would make the work of engineers more effective if applied to interfaces like augmented reality (hololens).