Watsonville, Calif.-based Granite Construction awarded for its development of an innovative AI-powered training tool, called Asphalt Guru – designed to address the looming retirement of experienced asphalt paving professionals. As a result, Granite Construction was named the grand prize winner of the AGC Innovation Awards, sponsored by Autodesk.
“We are seeking to support these innovations and to allow their creators to perfect and promote the innovations,” said Todd Roberts, the association’s national president and president of ERS Inc. in Jackson, Mississippi. “If we really want to change the industry, we have to find a way to encourage the widespread adoption of significant innovations, which is precisely what these awards do.”
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