Core AI Skills for AEC Professionals
€ 600
What you'll learn
This course shows you how to use AI confidently, safely and effectively across everyday AEC work: drafting tender responses, reviewing standards, summarising site reports and producing client-ready documents with ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot or Gemini. You will move from "I've tried it a bit" to confident, capable AI use, with practical patterns you can repeat across your working week.
- Stop guessing at prompts and start getting output you can actually issue to clients
- Draft tender responses, progress reports and RFI replies in minutes instead of hours
- Review standards, analyse tenders and summarise site reports using your own project data
- Build reusable templates and workflows that work across ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot and Gemini
- Know where to trust the output and where your professional judgement is non-negotiable
Who it's for
Architects, engineers, quantity surveyors and construction professionals who produce tenders, reports and client documents, and want AI working on real project tasks rather than sitting unused. No technical background needed, just a willingness to do the work in the sessions.
Course structure
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Four sessions. Eight hours. Real outputs. Every session follows the same pattern: focused teaching, then hands-on tasks, then group share-back. Participants spend the majority of each session doing, not watching. Dual screen access is recommended.
Module 1 · 30 September, 12pm - 2pm
Setup, safety and first prompts
Get set up properly across ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot or Gemini. Learn what can and cannot safely go into AI tools, why confidential tender and client project data needs careful handling, and how structured prompting turns vague asks into output you can issue to clients. You write your first prompts for real project tasks before the session ends.
Module 2 · 7 October, 12pm - 2pm
Research and market intelligence
Use deep research tools to review standards and building regulations against a live design question, analyse tender documents, and turn site investigation reports into client action emails. Every task uses real or synthesised project data and runs in the session, not as homework.
Module 3 · 14 October, 12pm - 2pm
Workflows, content and knowledge bases
Build a content engine that takes one project brief and produces a tender response, progress report, RFI reply and client update in a single pass. Create a searchable knowledge base from your own specifications, standards and project documents so the AI works with your sources, not the open web. Map your workflows to decide where reusable prompts and agents save the most time.
Module 4 · 21 October, 12pm - 2pm
Hackathon
No new teaching. You bring one real task from your current workload and tackle it with AI. Facilitator-led support, peer learning across architecture, engineering, quantity surveying and construction delivery. Everyone leaves with at least one high-value output they can use on Monday morning.
” The AI Institute's Core Skills Programme helped to turn a giant step into a series of much easier to take smaller steps into the wonderful but occasionally terrifying world of everyday AI. Highly recommended.”
About the instructor
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Toby Lincoln
Corporate AI Trainer & Programme Co-Designer
Toby Lincoln is a Corporate AI Trainer and EdTech Content Creator with a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford and 15+ years in higher education. A former Associate Professor at the University of Leicester, he specialises in AI Literacy and is skilled in leading AI training across platforms including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, and Perplexity.
Frequently asked questions
None at all. Our courses are specifically designed for working professionals, executives, and design teams who want practical AI skills, not a computer science lecture.
- If you are taking a Copilot course, basic familiarity with standard Microsoft 365 apps (Word, Excel, Outlook) is all you need.
- For Claude Code, Claude handles the actual coding while you direct it using plain English.
- For visual or industry-specific paths like Nano Banana or Built Environment, we focus entirely on practical workflows, layout options, and project management—never complex programming.
Yes, absolutely. Security and confidentiality are our highest priorities, especially for our AEC and Finance cohorts:
- Data Privacy: Microsoft Copilot and Claude enterprise plans respect your existing corporate IT permissions. The AI only sees data you are already authorized to access, and your inputs are never used to train public models.
- Course Work: Live workshop sessions use anonymized dummy data so you can focus entirely on mastering techniques in a safe environment. You will then be given clear frameworks to confidently apply those exact same prompts to your live, proprietary project files between modules.
The market is flooded with generic "how to write prompts" videos. Our edge is entirely different:
- Live, Expert Facilitation: You are learning in real-time alongside an executive-level peer group, guided by practitioners from companies actively deploying AI in the real world.
- Always Up-to-Date: The second an AI model drops a new feature, we rebuild our exercises. You are getting a cutting-edge playground, not stale theory.
- Workflow Integration: We don't just teach tools in a vacuum; we show you exactly how they talk to your existing ecosystem - whether that’s integrating Claude with Microsoft 365 or feeding Nano Banana concepts downstream into Revit, Rhino, and Photoshop.
