Source: Building Review Journal
Excerpt from Building Review Journal:
As construction embraces the age of artificial intelligence, Novade’s CEO Denis Branthonne shares how predictive analytics and field-ready data are transforming safety from a reactive task into a proactive movement that could save lives and redefine how sites operate.
When Denis Branthonne, CEO of Novade, watched his first predictive model achieve more than 80 percent accuracy in forecasting accident risks, he knew construction’s digital era had reached a defining moment.
“That was a breakthrough moment for me,” he recalls. “It felt like a paradigm change –we could help teams anticipate risks before incidents happened.”
For an industry often defined by complexity, unpredictability, and risk, that moment of clarity carried weight. Construction has long wrestled with safety management that is largely reactive, not predictive. Yet Novade’s work suggests a future where technology doesn’t just record incidents but helps prevent them, one data point, one decision, one worker at a time.
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