MBS920 - The AI Advantage: Designing Smarter Workspaces with AI with Matt Watts

Send us a text In this episode of the AI Advantage series, Matt speaks with Matt Watts, Founder and CEO of MWA Projects in London. For over 20 years, MWA has been delivering high-end design and build projects for global clients like Jimmy Choo, Nike, Converse, and Grosvenor Estates. Now, AI is transforming how projects are imagined and executed. Matt shares how AI is speeding up feasibility studies, cutting design iterations from weeks to days, and helping teams generate more accurate budgets and takeoffs in record time. He also explores AI’s role in contract review, marketing, translations, and project risk detection. But creativity, trust, and the personal touch remain irreplaceable in design and construction. We dive into hallucination risks, the future of robots on site, education’s slow adaptation to AI, and the leadership skills CEOs will need in an AI-powered economy. Support the show