As smart construction technology has taken hold as the future competitive edge of the construction industry, Daewoo Engineering & Construction is accelerating field-centered technological innovation led by artificial intelligence (AI) and digital transformation (DX). Beyond simply introducing technology, the company is applying it to real projects to verify results and is pursuing an execution strategy to expand its use in the field.
Daewoo Engineering & Construction officially launched the "Daewoo Smart Construction Alliance" to lead the adoption of smart construction technologies and strengthen collaboration. At the launch event held on Mar. 18 last year at the Euljiro headquarters in Seoul, executives and working-level staff from related in-house teams attended to share future strategies for smart construction and discuss directions for collaboration.
The "Daewoo Smart Construction Alliance" was launched to integrate smart construction technologies developed across diverse fields—dwellings, architecture, civil engineering, and plants—share information in real time, and strengthen internal and external technological competitiveness. Through this, Daewoo Engineering & Construction plans to further advance cutting-edge technologies such as AI, BIM (Building Information Modeling), OSC (Off-Site Construction), drones, and Internet of Things (IoT)-based smart safety management to maximize productivity and efficiency in construction. Going forward, the alliance is expected to play a key role in accelerating digital transformation and building an innovative smart construction ecosystem.
Currently, Daewoo Engineering & Construction is speeding up the development and practical use of systems based on AI. "Baro-dab AI," a "contract document analysis system" developed in-house by Daewoo Engineering & Construction, supports the rapid and accurate review of massive contract documents for domestic and overseas project bidding and execution using AI. It also incorporates various technologies that detect execution risks in advance, effectively reducing potential hazards during project execution. The system has completed practical verification on projects including the Mozambique LNG project, and its application is being expanded to various overseas businesses.
Lee Hee-ung, Head of Team of the AX Data Team at Daewoo Engineering & Construction, said, "Baro-dab AI instantly finds the information you need within project documents that run to thousands of pages and organizes it with precise grounds. In the past, just finding the materials took half a day, but now, with help from AI, we can secure key information in minutes and focus on essential decision-making."
Alongside this, "Baro-letter AI" is an AI-based communication solution that supports everything from drafting emails to multilingual translation. Since its introduction in April 2024, it has been used more than 1,000 times per week, improving work efficiency between domestic and overseas sites. In particular, going beyond a simple AI writing aid, it understands the context of construction contracts and quickly drafts expert-level business letters, dramatically reducing the time field staff had devoted to drafting high-difficulty documents.
The integrated quality control solution "Q-Box," developed through a large-scale national research project, has completed validation of its effectiveness at six sites and will be rolled out to new sites starting this year. Q-Box established a paperless quality management system by improving on-site inefficiencies such as duplicated tasks, frequent form changes, and dispersed data management. As a result, document work time can be reduced by more than 90% compared with before, and it is expected to become a core technology that accelerates digital transformation across the construction industry.
Daewoo Engineering & Construction is also extending smart construction technology to the complex landscaping design field. The AI-based "intelligent landscaping design system" has been fully introduced to Prugio complexes, leveraging Generative AI such as Claude and ChatGPT for landscaping design. In a representative use case at "Uijeongbu Tapseok Prugio Park 7," AI presented the main concepts and design drafts for seven parks, greatly enhancing design efficiency, creativity, and completeness. This allows residents to experience high-quality landscaping spaces that reflect a variety of elements such as ecology, security, and safety. In addition, the "AI media pergola," introduced in July last year for the first time by a domestic construction company, has been installed in the complex, showcasing smart landscaping technology in which content changes depending on the time, weather, and season.
In addition, Daewoo Engineering & Construction achieved innovation in concrete quality control by developing, for the first time in Korea, the "temperature history tracking curing system technology" applied with IoT technology. The technology installs wireless sensors in structural concrete to measure real-time temperature data and automatically controls cooling and heating devices so that test specimens are cured at the same temperature as the structure, greatly enhancing the reliability of quality inspections. Accuracy was improved through wireless communication (LTE)-based transmission and reception, the curing chamber was downsized to improve mobility and on-site usability, and real-time strength estimation enables precise quality control.
At the "2025 Daewoo Engineering & Construction Smart Construction Forum," held in September last year at the Euljiro headquarters in Seoul, about 200 participants from industry, academia, research, and government, including the Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT), KT, and NVIDIA, discussed ways to innovate construction through AI and digital transformation (DX). At the forum, Daewoo Engineering & Construction President Kim Bo-hyun said, "AI and data are no longer stories of the future but forces that are changing the foundation of industry," adding, "We will present a new construction standard with Smart, Safe, and Sustainable as the core values." Next-generation smart construction platforms from Daewoo Engineering & Construction, including Baro-dab AI and Q-Box, were exhibited at the venue and drew significant attention.
Daewoo Engineering & Construction will continue to actively introduce diverse smart construction technologies into major projects to improve construction quality, and will establish automated, digitalized process management systems to steadily expand on-site adoption of smart construction technologies. Through this, the company plans to accelerate digital transformation and further strengthen the technological competitiveness of the construction industry.
A Daewoo Engineering & Construction official said, "The 'Daewoo Smart Construction Alliance' will become a platform that achieves tangible technological innovation, and through continuous technology development and collaboration, we plan to build a smart construction ecosystem and play a leading role in domestic and overseas construction markets."