Equinix has announced that Gammon Construction, a major construction and engineering firm operating across Hong Kong and Singapore, has piloted an AI-ready hybrid multicloud architecture on Equinix infrastructure to advance its Smart Construction 4.0 initiative.

The platform, managed by Logicalis, is designed to centralise real-time data from digital twins, IoT sensors, drones, and robotics across Gammon’s project sites. Logicalis used Equinix Fabric and Network Edge to create secure, software-defined connectivity between Gammon’s Hong Kong and Singapore operations, with dynamic bandwidth provisioning for cloud and AI workloads.

60% Improvement in Risk Detection

An early proof point from the deployment is SmartXR, a video analytics capability built on Gammon’s AI platform. In a two-week pilot across five project sites, wearable cameras streamed footage into AI models that generated dynamic risk ratings for safety officers. The result was a 60% increase in the number of risk factors detected compared with traditional visual inspection. The capability is expected to expand to robot dogs and drones as the platform matures.

“In the age of smart construction, it is no longer just about connecting hardware and software; it is about seamlessly integrating carbon-based human intelligence and silicon-based artificial intelligence on a unified AI-native platform.”
— Leo Liu, Chief Technology Officer, Gammon Construction

Addressing an Ageing Workforce and Tighter Safety Requirements

The construction sector across Hong Kong and Singapore faces mounting pressure from an ageing workforce, heavy site documentation requirements, and increasingly stringent safety standards. Gammon’s platform aims to address these structural challenges by standardising data across job sites and embedding AI into day-to-day workflows, reducing reliance on manual inspection and improving operational precision at scale.

The Equinix infrastructure provides low-latency data ingestion from hundreds of devices, supporting both model training and AI inferencing. Gammon has operated in Asia since 1958 and is a joint venture between Balfour Beatty and Jardine Matheson.