As smart construction technology takes hold as a future competitive edge for the construction industry, Daewoo Engineering & Construction is accelerating on-site, technology-driven innovation led by artificial intelligence (AI) and digital transformation (DX). Going beyond simply adopting technology, the company is applying it to actual projects to verify results and is pursuing an execution strategy to scale it up across sites.
Daewoo Engineering & Construction officially launched the "Daewoo Smart Construction Alliance" to lead the adoption of smart construction technology and strengthen collaboration. At the launch ceremony 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 various 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. 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 accelerating the development and practical application of AI-based systems. The company's in-house developed "contract document analysis system," "Baro-dap AI," supports the rapid and accurate review of massive contract documents based on AI during bidding and execution stages for domestic and overseas projects. It also incorporates various technologies that detect execution risks in advance, effectively reducing potential hazards that may arise during project execution. The system has completed field validation on projects including the Mozambique LNG project and is being expanded to a range of overseas businesses.
Lee Hee-ung, Head of Team of the AX Data Team at Daewoo Engineering & Construction, said, "Baro-dap AI instantly finds the needed information within project documents spanning thousands of pages and organizes it with precise grounds. In the past, it took half a day just to search for materials, but now, with the help of 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 email drafting to multilingual translation, and since its introduction in Apr. 2024, it has been used more than 1,000 times a week, improving work efficiency between domestic and overseas sites. Going beyond a simple AI writing assistant, it understands the context of construction contracts and quickly produces expert-level business letters, dramatically cutting the time that on-site staff previously had to devote to drafting high-difficulty documents.
The integrated quality management solution "Q-Box," developed through a large national R&D project, has completed verification of its effectiveness at six sites and will be expanded to new sites starting this year. Q-Box eliminated inefficiencies such as duplicate work, frequent form changes, and dispersed data management, establishing a paperless-based quality management system. 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 expanding smart construction technology into residential landscape design. By fully introducing the AI-based "intelligent landscape design system" to Prugio complexes, the company has begun using Generative AI such as Claude and ChatGPT for landscape design. At the flagship site "Uijeongbu Tapseok Prugio Park 7," AI proposed the main concepts and design drafts for seven parks, significantly boosting design efficiency, creativity, and completeness. Residents can experience high-quality landscaped spaces that reflect various elements such as ecology, security, and safety, and the "AI media pergola," introduced for the first time among Korean construction companies on Jul., has also been installed in the complex, showcasing smart landscape technology in which content changes by time, weather, and season.
In addition, Daewoo Engineering & Construction achieved a breakthrough in concrete quality management by developing the nation's first "temperature history tracking curing system technology" applying IoT. By installing wireless sensors in structural concrete to measure real-time temperature data and automatically controlling cooling and heating devices, the technology cures test specimens at the same temperature as the structure, greatly enhancing the reliability of quality inspections. LTE-based wireless transmission and reception improved accuracy, a downsized curing chamber enhanced mobility and on-site usability, and real-time strength estimation enabled precise quality control.
At the "2025 Daewoo Engineering & Construction Smart Construction Forum" held at the Euljiro headquarters in Seoul in Sep. last year, more than 200 participants from industry, academia, research, and government, including the Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT), KT, and NVIDIA, discussed construction innovation through AI and digital transformation (DX). At the forum, President Kim Bo-hyeon of Daewoo Engineering & Construction 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 our core values." Daewoo Engineering & Construction's next-generation smart construction platforms, including Baro-dap AI and Q-Box, were exhibited at the venue, drawing strong interest.
Going forward, Daewoo Engineering & Construction plans to actively introduce diverse smart construction technologies into major projects to improve construction quality and to build automated and digitalized process management systems, continually expanding on-site application of smart construction technology. Through this, the company aims 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 be a platform that delivers practical technological innovation, and through continuous technology development and collaboration, we will build a smart construction ecosystem and play a leading role in the domestic and overseas construction markets."