Building the Foundation Model for Construction with Francesco Iorio

About this episode

Francesco Iorio discusses how AI-native design tools can transform the construction industry.

Construction is one of the world’s largest industries, yet much of the design process still depends on manual coordination, long hours, and workflows that struggle to keep pace with growing project complexity. Francesco “Frio” Iorio, co-founder and CEO of Augmenta, joins Greg to explore how AI-native design tools could fundamentally reshape the future of construction, engineering, and collaboration across the built environment. Before founding Augmenta, Frio spent years working in computation...

People in this episode

Host: Greg Toroosian

Guest: Francesco Iorio

Topics covered

• construction
• AI design tools
• engineering
• collaboration
• built environment

Keywords

• construction
• AI
• design tools
• engineering
• collaboration
• Augmenta

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Augmenta

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