AI in Project Management for EPCM | Desapex

India's EPCM market is on track to hit $112 billion by 2031 and most firms are still treating AI as a ChatGPT experiment. In this episode, Nikhil C Laby (Project Management Division, Desapex) walks through what AI in EPCM actually looks like today the 6-layer operating architecture behind it, why Layer 3 is where almost everyone gets stuck, the 2024 numbers showing real project impact, and the five-stage practical roadmap for firms starting the journey. If you're building, running, or advising an EPCM firm in India, this is the conversation on where the first-mover window actually is and what it takes to be in it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS 00:00 The opening question what AI in EPCM actually looks like today 03:00 AI as a decision-support layer, not another software tool 03:30 The pain-point wall why the industry can't afford to wait 06:50 Five areas where AI creates value across an EPCM project 08:50 The 6-layer AI operating architecture 10:00 Why Layer 3 is where firms get stuck 13:00 What AI actually did to the 2024 numbers 17:25 Four big mistakes firms make with AI 21:35 The 5-stage practical roadmap 23:25 Case study planning time from 2 weeks to 10 minutes 27:15 The AI-literate project manager 32:10 Governance, hallucinations, and "set it and forget it" 37:05 Human-led, AI-augmented, the realistic future 40:25 AI as an operating-model transformation 42:00 Build now, or catch up in three years? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT DESAPEX Desapex helps EPCM firms move from managing reactively to managing predictively through BIM, digital twins, integrated data environments, and AI-augmented project intelligence. Website: https://www.desapex.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/desa... #aiinconstruction #EPCM #projectmanagement #constructiontechnology #bim #digitaltwin #aecindustry #indiaconstruction #Desapex