[Project] 🎯: REBuild Ireland: Project Definition (Wholistic)

Project Topic

Project Brief

Design and build out an interactive AI application for Derlicit and/or Vacant Housing, that utilises secure, legitimate and ethically sourced publically available data from Public Services, to aid discovery, assist and improve research into the rennoation and restoration of such Proproperties.

Credits

Authorship: Ideation & Initial Definition: @violaberg Editorship: Project Definition: @iPoetDev (To be) Reviewed by: Team: @violaberg , @iPoetDev , @stephendawsondev, @jhoanTrujillo , @DarrachBarneveld Approved: by on Date:

Project Description

For the project of ReBuild Ireland by Applying: Approach B: Building an AI / LLM driven app so that ... We selected the idea: of an innovative AI-driven platform designed to guide individuals through the intricate process of

discovering
researching
purchasing,
refurbishing, and or
managing

the capability of: ✨ `vacant or derelict properties in Ireland` ✨

Original Documents

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qCvG8TLueyaPe9ywSD0M08B3UnHr3tEpPchSmOaZvRo/edit

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JWQZp04Xj03fTDZC13xx_Ny-2kHFI3nbp_zkAJ6jD-A/edit#heading=h.r5feopu7xcru

Problem Statement

@jhoanTrujillo , @iPoetDev , @stephendawsondev , @DarrachBarneveld, @violaberg : let review the problem statement, iteratively and refine as we go.

Members of the ReBuild Ireland team noticed:
The difficulty and confusion, from public and internet sources (pain point)
🅰️ with finding the details of such housing and
      or finding the details public servants (i.e. 🔹 `{Housing}` Officers)
🅱️ being able to effectievly query these sources in an intelligent fashion; ...

and to have meaningful and actionable outcomes from:
 1️⃣ interacting with an (🔹 {Agentic | LLM | AI | LLM | GenAI}) chat bot 
using: 
 2️⃣ natural language queries (inputs)  for
 3️⃣ natural language understanding (process) and 
 4️⃣ for the intelligent NLP actor
and or 
 5️⃣ for expert system 
 6️⃣ to be adaptively responsive (outputs) 
 7️⃣ to the users non AI informed questions.

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Goals

This platform, by leveraging AI aims to

demystify the complexities of property renovation
providing users with a personalised, step-by-step guide
leveraging AI to ensure compliance with
- seek who is the local officer
- local regulations,
- optimise grant applications,
- manage refurbishment projects efficiently.

Scope

Please @violaberg help refine and confine these as we select/deselect features and what to focus on If something is deselected, then it push to future roadmap.

User Scope

ReBuild Ireland is more focused on individual users and small developers, providing highly personalised guidance for specific projects in Ireland. It’s ideal for those who need detailed help with renovating vacant or derelict properties.

Key: 🔉 : To be Discussed. ✅: Agreed. ⚠️: Unsure. ❌: Out of scope: Future

Feature Scoping

Interactive AI Assistant: ^{🔉 Scope: ✅}

Provides real-time support and advice throughout the renovation process.

Regulatory Compliance and Zoning Checks: ^{🔉 Scope: ✅}

Ensures that renovation plans comply with local zoning laws, building codes, and environmental regulations

Grant and Funding Navigation: ^{🔉 Scope: ✅⚠️}

An AI-powered tool for assessing eligibility and guiding users through the process of applying for Irish government grants

Personalized Renovation Roadmap : ^{🔉 Scope: ✅⚠️}

A step-by-step guide that tailors the renovation journey based on property details, location, and user goals.

Refurbishment Project Management: ^{🔉 Scope: ❌}

Tools for managing budgets, timelines, and contractors with AI-generated templates to avoid delays and cost overruns

Environmental and Socioeconomic Impact Assessment: ^{🔉 Scope: ❌}

Offers insights on the environmental and community impact of renovations, with suggestions for sustainable practices.

Progress Monitoring and Notifications: ^{🔉 Scope: ❌}

Automated reminders and alerts to keep the project on track. Environment and community, offering sustainable solutions

Use Case

Why did we choose our particular approach for this idea?

WE choose for Approach 🅱️ of the Hackathon.

Beneficial

Pros:

User-Focused: Offers a highly personalised experience for individuals and small developers, making the renovation process easier to navigate.
Comprehensive Guidance: Covers a wide range of aspects, from legal compliance to project management and funding opportunities.
Localised Focus: Specifically tailored to the Irish housing market, making it highly relevant for users in Ireland.
Ease of Use: Designed to be accessible, even for those without prior experience in property renovation.

Cons:

Narrow Audience: Primarily serves those dealing with vacant or derelict properties, potentially limiting its user base.
Limited Scope for Large-Scale Projects: While excellent for individual renovations, it may not fully address the needs of larger housing development projects.

Project Scope

National Strategy: Applicable Strands

The following interweaves, and aligns, the goals of ReBuild Ireland's approach with intersections of the National AI Strategy.

Strand 1: AI and Society:

Using Strong public trust in AI as a force for societal good, in this case, Housing and Rebuilding derelict Housing addressed a National Level Crisis for Ireland

The use of trustworthy AI in a public good or from a public serviced delivery perspectives, with a view to support increased understand by delivering useful tools that yields trustworthy results will improve the inclusion of those excluded from the property market by constrained housing supply scenarios.

This could be a transformative approach to tackling the societal and economic challenges, i..e the housing crisis, by recycling derelict or vacant housing stock in to the market.

Strand 1 Roadmap

[ ] Liaise with the AI Ambassador to be.
[ ] Apply for AI for Society Good Challenge Funds from the Department of Housing
[ ] Include AI solution alignment with National Climate actions for existing and future climate policies.
- [ ] Rebuild Ireland plans to include Environmental and Socioeconomic Impact Assessments in future product development.

Strand 2: Strand 2: A Governance Ecosystem that Promotes Trustworthy AI

Compliance with existing EU Legal frameworks like the EI AI Act (July 2024) will be a critical quality and deployment feature of ReBuild Ireland's approach, as well as alignment with National laws where customer facing applications .

Compliance with existing EU Legal frameworks like the European GDPR (July 2024) will be a critical quality and deployment feature of ReBuild Ireland's approach where personal data is automatically processed, as well as alignment with National laws where customer facing applications.

Alignment with solida ethical principles and implementations, via the EU's d Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI, and cooperating and utilising the Government to be publish AI tools to help with trustworthiness.

Strand 2 Roadmap

[ ] Stay inform of EU horizontal regulatory frameworks, i.e. for AI and other applicable discussions,
[ ] Cooperate with Irish Regulators for Digital, including AI.
[ ] Seek advisory support and guidance for self-assessing the trustworthiness of REBuild Ireland AI systems.
[ ] Align with the Standard and Assurance Roadmap for AI on a annual/bi-annual basis.
[ ] Staying informed with ethical and human rights approaches to AI in regards to Housing.

Strand 3: Driving Adoption of AI in Irish Enterprise

Support the increase in National productivity through a step change in AI adoption by innovating and transforming the Derelict Housing sector via the second hand housing market. renovations, and regulatory compliance.

Support the national strategy by the adoption of AI and to harness its benefits for good. i.e. "AI is here for Good"

Apply to the Government where applications/grants exist for assistance with planning and capacity building for AI, and help for implementation of AI solutions from the Department of Housing.

Strand 3 Roadmap

[ ] Stay informed of the Enterprise Digital Advisory Board newsletters and announcements.
[ ] Stay abreast of best model, research and developments in data and AI infrastructure platforms
[ ] Participate in the AI Innovation Hub, as appropriate, for its First Stop for AI.

Strand 4: AI Serving the Public Good

Given that public sector has already embedded AI, and data sets, into the provision of certain public services, like below, ReBuild ireland plans to incorporate public registries, as well as other public sources of unstructured and structured data .

Making use of primary, secondary level sources from trustworthy, compliant and well analysed data providers, as well as working in coordination with public services, local government authorities etc, to secure that the data is in the national interests, secure and ethically well sourced.

ReBuild Ireland may consider tender processing in the procurement and or development of ethical and trustworthy AI applications, either by external development contracts or reselling white label products to the Government.

Strand 4: Data as a Public Good

● data.gov.ie: data.gov.ie ● Central Statistics Office (CSO): cso.ie ● Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Ireland: epa.ie

Strand 4 Roadmap

[ ] Stay abreast of The GovTech Advisory Board newsletters and announcements.
[ ] Participate, like with the National AI Challenge, in the promotion of 'open' environments like Hackathons, Meetups and Workshops

Strand 5: A Strong AI Innovation Ecosystem

Participate in, and be representative of, the high-quality and responsible AI research and Innovation for Housing and for Ireland on the National, EU and International level. i.e. New Frontiers from Enterprise Ireland and Horizon Europe like programmes.

Participate in, if appropriate, or stay abreast of Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)-run research programmes in the building of strong links between the housing industry, research and academia.

Engage in appropriate levels of support between innovative researchers, enterprises and entrepreneurs that are involved developing and using AI are connected to each other and to appropriate support systems

Strand 5 Roadmap

[ ] Stay abreast and apply for Enterprise Ireland start up schemes, funding and grants for national and international partnerships.
[ ] Access national level testbeds where AI applications can be experimented with and piloted in real world environments, safely and for auditing purposes.
[ ] Participate, if appropriate, in the all-island cooperation, north and south of the border, via the Shared Island approach
[ ] ReBuild Ireland will recruit, as well as nurture and promote, along the lines for Ireland as centre for talent in AI research and innovation.

Strand 6: AI Education, Skills and Talent

To keep abreast of disruptive etchnical advances in the Housing Sector as they change the role of sectorial workers, like Housing Officers and coopertate with the Local and National Authorities where appropriate.

Strand 6 Roadmap

[ ] To recruit, nurture and promote, Irish and Irish sourced workplace AI skilled workfoce and or in place workplace upskilling, and reskillsing via active scheme participation as well via enterprise partnership schemes.
[ ] To have a thoughtful and well balance recruitment policy mindful , promoting of and leading with Equity, Diversity and Inclusion for all minorities, niche and gender segments of the employable workforce.

Strand 7: : A Supportive and Secure Infrastructure for AI

Commiting to employing healthy AI infrastructures and accessing to high-quality and trustworthy data.

Commiting to complying and implementating robust data governance and privacy frameworks, as and when applicable.

Commiting to effectively, effciently and ecominically as possible utilising best of breed secure highspeed telecommunication networks.

Commiting to effective and well design uses of sufficient computing power and storage capabilities, by optimal selection of dfoundational models, their compnonent hardward, data and other compute architectures for economical and environmental considerations..

Commiting to reviewing data and compute impacts on electrical and environmental resource needs via regular auditing and environmental assessments of our applications AI footprint.

Strand 7 Roadmap

[ ] Participate, if applicable, in teh EMPOWER initiative.
[ ] Apply standards and frameworks equivalent to the Public Service standards and frameworks.
[ ] Utilsing open governement data for housing and the environments, as per the AI Open Data Challenge and oyther suchi initiatives.
[ ] Regularly review and optimise for public sector climate and environmental open datasets that support AI impact on climate action.

Hackathon Scope: Housing

It is important for Ireland to address housing issues to ensure affordable living, reduce homelessness, and support sustainable urban development. By tackling issues such as housing availability, construction efficiency, and urban planning, Ireland can improve living standards and promote inclusive communities.

Project: Complexity v Usability

ReBuild Ireland is designed to be user-friendly and accessible, with a focus on simplifying the renovation process for individuals and small teams

Project: Feature Set

ReBuild Ireland emphasises project management, regulatory compliance, and personalised renovation guidance

Future Scope

Future Development Potential

Roadmap

🗣️ Decision: Keep or Move / dupe this to its own Ticket

Ideas

Expansion of Community Features: Creating a platform for users to share experiences and advice could foster a strong community around property renovation.
Integration with Financial Institutions: Partnering with banks and lenders could offer users tailored financing options and streamline the mortgage application process.

Out of Scope ^above

Update this ticket as we push/pull to/from the Roadmap.

This means never discussed, not featuring in discussions and or actively agreed against.

Refurbishment Project Management: ^{🔉 Scope: ❌}
Environmental and Socioeconomic Impact Assessment: ^{🔉 Scope: ❌}
Progress Monitoring and Notifications: ^{🔉 Scope: ❌}

Additional Information

Hackathon Approaches

This is a neo-Hackathon.

1. Approach 🅰️: `The Buy-In Approach`

"The key focus is to showcase your creativity, come up with innovative business ideas that drive and encourage AI adoption inspired by Ireland’s National AI Strategy- AI Here for Good."

Scope:

Has two scopes:

If your team is relatively new to using AI tools you could create...
Business Plans, pitch decks, GTM roadmap, logo, creative content, financial projections by using AI tools.

Requirements

Use powerful AI models like Google’s Gemini, OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4o to reduce the time it takes for you as an entrepreneur to build business plans and to focus more on strategy and idea itself. The organisers want to see AI or digital tools empower your work and produce interesting content.

2. Approach 🅱️: `The Build Approach`

Is to try showcasing your AI skills by building potentially useful solutions, interfaces or applications using LLMs.

Scope:

If your team consists of advanced users of LLMs and
Has experience with large data sets, with a background in development, data sciences.

Requirement

The following information about potential sources of data, problem statements, and ideas might give you some inspiration.

Ideas and topics for Advanced users of LLMs

LLMs are :
- A relatively new and advanced technologies that have become accessible to everyone
- Are able to process large amounts of qualitative and even quantitative data at scale.
The National AI Challenge is a great opportunity to
- [ ] To identify a significant real-world pain point in our everyday life
- [ ] To use LLMs to tackle those issues.
- [ ] To review and select for some topics in different categories. You are not limited to the Appendix in the National AL Challenge Guidelines See attached
- [ ] To select a topic based on your domain knowledge and experience, the importance of the issue, or the maximum benefit it can provide.
[ ] To start by conducting quick research or gather data to support the importance of this problem
[ ] To ensure that the problem is well defined and supported by evidence.

National AI Challenge 2024 Guidelines V10_8 .pdf

Housing

The team selected for the domain of Housing, Selected from 11 domains: Agriculture, Health, Housing, Population and Society, Science and Technology, Transport, Justice, Legal System, and Public Safety, Economy and Finance, Education and Sport, Energy, Environment.

3. Housing

Key: ❌ Not Considered, ✅: Considered as direct or indirectly applicable.

❌ 1. Affordable Housing Development: ~LLMs can analyse market trends to identify opportunities for affordable housing projects and optimise resource allocation.~
❌ 2. Construction Efficiency: ~LLMs can enhance construction processes by predicting material needs, scheduling tasks, and reducing waste.~
❌ 3. Urban Planning: ~LLMs can assist in urban planning by analysing population growth and infrastructure needs, ensuring sustainable development.~
✅ 4. Property Management: LLMs can streamline property management by automating maintenance schedules and improving tenant communication.
❌ 5. Homelessness Prevention: ~LLMs can identify at-risk populations and suggest intervention strategies to prevent homelessness.~
- ❌ 6. Energy Efficiency: ~LLMs can optimise energy usage in housing by analysing consumption patterns and suggesting improvements.~
❌ 7. Smart Housing Solutions: ~LLMs can integrate smart technologies into housing developments to enhance safety, convenience, and energy management.~
- ❌ 8. Real Estate Market Analysis: ~LLMs can provide insights into real estate market trends, helping stakeholders make informed decisions.~
- ✅ 9. Regulatory Compliance in Construction: LLMs can ensure compliance with building codes and regulations by automating documentation and inspection processes

Sources and References

National AI Challenge 2024 Guidelines V10_8 .pdf

Data sources

● data.gov.ie: data.gov.ie ● Central Statistics Office (CSO): cso.ie ● Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Ireland: epa.ie ● Health Service Executive (HSE) Ireland: hse.ie ● Teagasc: teagasc.ie ● Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI): seai.ie ● Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII): tii.ie ● Irish Sports Council: sportireland.ie ● Irish Housing Agency: housingagency.ie ● Irish Legal Information Initiative (IRLII): irlii.org ● European Data Portal: data.europa.eu ● World Bank Open Data: data.worldbank.org ● Eurostat: ec.europa.eu/eurostat ● TechIreland: https://ireland.dealroom.co/intro

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