Artificial Intelligence in Construction Projects: An Explorative Study of Professionals’ Expectations

have a huge impact on projects and project management practices in the forthcoming years. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to project management theory and practice in the construction industry by analyzing the expectations of project professionals. A mixed method based on an international survey and semi-structured interviews was applied. The results show that construction project practitioners are looking for AI solutions to support the quantitative processes mainly related to scope, schedule, cost, quality, and risk management. However, the human-related processes, such as communication and stakeholder management, are not expected to be directly enhanced by AI, although might benefit from it indirectly. The findings also demonstrate a difference between amplifying and accelerating countries, where somewhat surprisingly the latter are more ready to adopt AI in their projects.