Emerging Digital and AI-Driven Technologies in Construction Materials: A 2025 Perspective

Construction materials which were once considered as a slow progressing field is now progressing with leaps and bounds by the end of year 2025 due to intervention of digital and artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies.Such technologies will drive the smart construction materials research from being possible to being practical.More environment friendly materials will be produced with low carbon footprints, sustainability, reproducibility, reliability and reusability.Digital twins have made it easier to realize the actual field structures in the laboratory-controlled environment and computer-based AI generated numerical-digital models as well as real-life visualizations.The field of 3D digital concrete printing combined with AI has shifted use of construction materials into a next level.Various cementitious composites, concrete mix designs, corrosion resistant steel reinforcement bars, admixtures, additives, coatings, are all being reborn with the advancements in digital and AI technology.This editorial focuses on all the pros and cons of such technologies for use in construction materials with the end of year 2025 perspective.Figure 1 below presents the graphical abstract for this editorial.