The Biggest Opportunity for Change in 2025
As we look ahead to 2025, I believe Artificial Intelligence (AI) stands as the single most transformative force shaping not just our industry—but the way we work, build, and care for others.
Its influence on interior design, construction, and operations is already significant. But what we’ve seen so far is only the beginning. The opportunities ahead are broader and deeper than most of us yet realize.
AI in Interior Design: Creativity Meets Computation
In our design practice, AI is beginning to streamline and enhance some of the most fundamental—and traditionally time-intensive—tasks we face.
- Real-time visualization and 3D modeling: Tools are becoming faster and more interactive, allowing designers and clients to ideate and iterate in ways that feel intuitive and inspiring.
- Material selection and sustainability forecasting: AI will be able to make recommended alternatives based on pricing, availability, aesthetics, performance, and environmental impact—enabling smarter choices.
- Design optimization: By analyzing space usage, traffic flow, and user needs, AI will be able to ensure our spaces are optimally flexible and function brilliantly too.
AI in Construction: Smarter, Safer, More Predictable
Construction has long been constrained by labor inefficiencies, cost overruns, and safety risks. AI is beginning to rewrite that script.
- Robust use of Revit: Blur the line of design and construction with real time library assets for all material take-offs, construction efficiencies, discipline conflict management, cost and supply efficiencies.
- Project and schedule management: Predictive algorithms help optimize supply chains, identify and avoid delays before they happen.
- Safety monitoring: Computer vision and wearables improve jobsite awareness, reducing accidents and liability.
Emerging bonus impacts: AI-driven modular design, robotics in prefab manufacturing, and autonomous site inspections are fast becoming real tools in the field.
AI in Operations: Doing More with Less
Operationally, senior living and healthcare environments demand precision, compassion, and efficiency—especially in today’s tightening labor market. AI is rising to that challenge.
- Resource optimization: From energy usage to staffing models, AI helps balance quality with cost.
- Predictive maintenance: AI forecasts when systems or structures will need upkeep—saving both money and operational downtime.
- Cost containment: Smarter procurement, preventive service models, and efficient scheduling cut waste.
- Enhanced decision-making: Leaders can act on insights drawn from real-time data rather than instinct alone.
Newer advancements include resident sentiment tracking, personalized activity programming, and AI-enhanced care coordination, improving both outcomes and satisfaction.
The Power of Integration — and What Excites Me Most
While each of these areas benefits individually, what excites me most is the powerful synergy AI enables across disciplines. When design, construction, and operations start speaking a common digital language, we unlock new levels of efficiency, collaboration, and creativity.
AI’s real promise is in how it connects the silos. It enables feedback loops where building performance informs future designs, operational insights refine construction standards, and design decisions become living data points that evolve over time.
These aren’t abstract benefits — they directly affect how quickly we can deliver projects, how affordably we can maintain them, and how meaningfully we can enhance quality of life for the people who live and work in these spaces.
A Bridge Between Generations
Beyond operational impact, I believe AI also holds social and cultural potential—to become a unifying force in the workplace and beyond.
Its ease of use and intuitive interfaces are bringing together younger digital natives and seasoned professionals in a new kind of collaboration. In doing so, it has the potential to bridge generational divides—helping us all co-create, communicate, and solve problems with greater empathy and understanding.
Looking Ahead
AI is not just a tool for doing more—it’s a catalyst for doing better. Better design. Better service. Better stewardship of time, budget, and human potential.
In 2025 and beyond, I believe our greatest responsibility is not to resist this wave of change—but to harness it with intention, creativity, and purpose.
We’re just getting started.
