Construction IQ FAQs

Find answers to frequently asked questions about Construction IQ.

• Who has access to the Construction IQ Preview?
• In which data centers are Construction IQ cards available?
• Does Construction IQ replace my BI tools?
• What is machine learning and AI (artificial intelligence)?
• Did Autodesk use customer data to develop Construction IQ? If I use the Construction IQ Preview, can Autodesk see or use my data?
• How should I prioritize cost impact vs quality risk?

Question 1: Who has access to the Construction IQ Preview?

Answer 1: The Construction IQ Preview is available to all Autodesk Construction Cloud accounts that meet the following criteria:

• To manage quality and safety analytics, customers should be using the Issues and Forms tools.
• To use design review analytics, customers should be using design issues in the Document tool.
• Accounts that use English: Construction IQ uses machine learning algorithms that currently only work with data captured in the English language.
• Accounts that use Commercial, Healthcare, Institutional, and Residential project types, and the Infrastructure Transportation Building subtype. Construction IQ is currently only optimized for risk analysis of issues from projects that use one of these project types. This is specified when the project administrator creates the project.

Issues from the following project types will not analyzed:

• Infrastructure

  • Airport
  • Bridge
  • Canal/Waterway
  • Dams/Flood Control/Reservoirs
  • Harbor/River Development
  • Rail
  • Seaport
  • Streets/Roads/Highways
  • Tunnel
  • Waste Water / Sewers
  • Water Supply

• Industrial & Energy

  • Manufacturing / Factory
  • Mining Facility
  • Oil & Gas
  • Plant
  • Power Plant
  • Solar Farm
  • Utilities
  • Wind Farm

• Sample projects

  • Demonstration Project
  • Template Project
  • Training Project

  For these project types, project risk levels are marked as Not Applicable, and Construction IQ cards are not available.

Question 2: In which data centers are Construction IQ cards available?

Question 2: Construction IQ cards are currently available in the US, EMEA, and AUS data centers.

Question 3: Does Construction IQ replace my BI tools?

Answer 3: Construction IQ is not intended to replace existing BI tools such as Power BI or Domo, but rather to complement them. Customers can access project data in their BI tools using the Forge API, and BI data can be displayed in Autodesk Construction Cloud via Partner Cards.

In addition, BI tools typically focus on monthly or annual reporting, while Autodesk Construction Cloud leveraging daily project data to produce aggregated results of actual project performance.

Question 4: What is machine learning and AI (artificial intelligence)?

Answer 4: Machine learning uses a set of algorithms that allow computers to "learn" from data without being explicitly programmed. For instance, an AI algorithm can be trained to identify spam by exposing it to large quantities of emails that have been manually tagged as spam or not-spam. The algorithm learns to identify patterns that help it to intelligently identify spam.

Question 5: Did Autodesk use customer data to develop Construction IQ? If I use the Construction IQ Preview, can Autodesk see or use my data?

Answer 5: Autodesk worked with a select group of customers, who signed a special pilot agreement to allow access to their data, to develop and validate Construction IQ. The Construction IQ algorithms have been trained prior to the release of the Construction IQ Preview, and run automatically without any human intervention.

Question 6: How should I prioritize cost impact vs quality risk?

Answer 6: Cost impact and quality risk have been developed as separate models in Construction IQ, meaning that issues may have a high cost impact with a low risk level, and vice versa. It is recommended that you prioritize issues with both a high cost and high risk level first.