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CTCI’s Inaugural Year of AI: Launching a New Era of Intelligent Engineering
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David Chung, CEO of CTCI Group Intelligent Solutions Business
Artificial intelligence is reshaping industries at an unprecedented pace, driving global surge in demand for data and computing infrastructure as well as intelligent applications. As CTCI Group Chairman John Yu explicitly defined, "2026 is the inaugural year of AI for CTCI Group." This symbolizes that the Group will fully drive its transformation through AI, unlocking a new era of intelligent engineering. Faced with the industrial shifts brought by the rise of AI, CTCI's Group Intelligent Solutions Business (GISB) is proactively seizing market trends. By continuously investing in the R&D of intelligent AI applications, digital platforms, and smart engineering technologies, GISB deeply integrates technological innovation with engineering expertise. It is turning challenges into opportunities for transformation, while ensuring that AI is not just a tool for enhancing efficiency, but a core engine for expanding its intelligent engineering footprint. The rapid development of AI continues to heat up investments in high-tech sectors. Demand is growing exponentially for infrastructure in semiconductors, high-tech manufacturing, cloud services, and AI data centers. Meanwhile, smart buildings, construction development, smart factories, smart healthcare, and senior care businesses are becoming rigid market demands. This article highlights how GISB’s three companies leverage group resources and combine their individual strengths in respective fields to compete for the immense AI infrastructure construction opportunities. The three companies are CTCI ASI, specialized in intelligent AI applications; CTCI REI, specialized in civil engineering; and CTCI SEC, specialized in mechanical & electrical integration.
Integrating Core Strengths, Positioning in Key Markets
CTCI Advanced Systems Inc. (CTCI ASI) continues to increase its edge in proprietary AI technology R&D. Its in-house-developed smart operations and process optimization platform, Mr. OPX, facilitates integration of real-time and field data, interfacing with various AI functional modules, and delivering highly customized dashboards. This platform has been successfully deployed across critical projects in smart factories, high-speed rail, and data centers. Recently, CTCI ASI has further introduced 5G AIoT private network technologies and service AI robot applications, helping clients improve operational efficiency while achieving energy conservation, carbon emissions reduction, and digital transformation goals. Meanwhile, CTCI Resource Engineering Inc. (CTCI REI)’s strengths lie in civil works design consultancy service, Class A construction services, and precast method. Leveraging CTCI ASI’s strengths in intelligent applications, CTCI REI has positioned itself in the smart, green building market—including commercial offices, factories, high-tech fabs, and data centers. It is also evaluating entry into emerging sectors such as construction development, urban renewal, and senior care Build-Operate-Transfer projects. By keeping value engineering at its core, CTCI REI continues to provide high-value-added holistic solutions to capture the infrastructure opportunities driven by global AI computing expansion. CTCI Smart Engineering Corporation (CTCI SEC) is skilled in mechanical & electrical engineering, and continuous to cement its presence in the high-tech semiconductor engineering market and build a rich track record in AI data centers. From server room projects for high-tech clients, it has gradually expanded into firefighting systems as well as mechanical & electrical engineering for semiconductor fabrication plants and central utility plants. It also actively partners with CTCI REI to undertake large-scale turnkey projects that involve civil works and mechanical & electrical engineering. By working together, both companies achieve synergy and enhance overall competitiveness. Capitalizing on the complementary expertise and resource integration of these three companies, GISB will aggressively expand business opportunities across three core areas: Smart Buildings and Construction Development: GISB has tapped into the infrastructure market that includes commercial offices, factories, high-tech plants, and data centers owned by public and private enterprises. Clients that GISB has served include CPC Corporation, Taiwan Power Company, and one of Taiwan’s leading high-tech companies. Meanwhile, GISB continues to explore large-scale development projects, such as MRT joint developments, land revitalization for traditional industries, sea-sand house reconstruction, and disaster-prevention urban renewal. Smart Factories Maximizing AI Applications: For clients that have large-sized plants, such as CPC Corporation, Taiwan Power Company, and a foreign pharmaceutical company, GISB is proposing an AI-enabled solutions package that include five fields of application: energy saving, production management, process safety, smart industrial safety, and situation rooms. Additionally, by combining existing Facility Management Control System (FMCS) architectures with the Mr. OPX platform, GISB utilizes historical operational data to analyze and establish Operation Management Improvement Guidance. This allows GISB to penetrate the high-tech manufacturing market, resolving long-standing client pain points and boosting efficiency. Smart Healthcare and Senior Care under the Aging Trend: GISB continues to take part in the development of senior care park projects in northern Taiwan. Beyond implementing CTCI ASI’s in-house-developed smart care system, GISB integrates AI care and robotics to build a new smart care model for the AI and robotics era. This allows GISB to build track record and gain experience in the senior care industry.
Joining Hands with CTCI Group to Create a New Future for AI-Enabled Intelligent Engineering
With a mission of "anchoring its foundation in engineering, driving innovation through service,” GISB continues to deepen its presence in traditional engineering markets—such as large-scale domestic and international refineries, petrochemical plants, power plants, and resource circulation centers. Furthermore, by blending engineering with technology across AI applications, smart factories, smart transportation, ICT integration, smart buildings, construction development, smart healthcare, and senior care, GISB is forging a new business model. Looking to the future, GISB will leverage its core strengths—proprietary AI technology, cross-domain integration capabilities, and a one-stop service model—to target multi-billion-dollar large-scale projects. Hand in hand with the Group, GISB will elevate the competitiveness of intelligent engineering, continuously expand its footprint, and seek to become the “Most Reliable” intelligent engineering services provider and best partner in the AI era.