AI for Architects, Engineers and BOQ is a hands-on workshop in using AI with design and construction documents, from summarising tenders and drafting specifications to reviewing a BOQ for missing items and unusual rates, comparing quotations and writing progress reports, with people checking every quantity and price. It suits architects, engineers, contractors and quantity surveyors.
Architects, engineers, contractors and quantity surveyors spend a great deal of time on documents: reading tender terms of reference, writing specifications, preparing and checking bills of quantities, comparing quotations and writing progress reports. This work demands precision, because a single missing item or wrong unit can affect the cost of the whole project. AI tools can read, summarise, draft and spot inconsistencies very quickly, but AI can also miscalculate, guess figures and cite standards that do not exist.
This course shows learners how to use ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot and Excel with design and construction documents through a sample project that runs all day. It covers summarising the terms of reference, drafting specifications and method statements, structuring a BOQ, using AI to find missing items, wrong units and unusual unit rates, comparing quotations, writing progress reports from site notes and creating concept images with Nano Banana. Throughout, quantities, prices and professional sign-off are always checked and decided by people. It closes with a workshop in which learners assemble an AI toolkit for their projects. (1 day, 6 hours, Beginner level.)
Course Details
A 1-day, 6-hour workshop (09:00-16:00) built around a sample project that runs through every topic. Beginner level, with no programming background needed. Learners use their own or their company's ChatGPT, Claude or Microsoft 365 Copilot account, plus a Gemini account for Nano Banana; some features, such as Copilot in Excel, need a separate licence. The course focuses on the documents that design and construction teams produce. It does not teach quantity take-off in CAD or BIM software and does not use AI for structural calculations; quantities and prices are always confirmed by the person responsible. Learners take home a prompt library, the sample project files, a BOQ review checklist and a weekly progress report template.
Day 1: Using AI with Project Documents, Reports and BOQs
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A BOQ, or bill of quantities, lists the items of construction work with their quantities, units and unit rates, and is used for estimating and tendering. Once the BOQ is well structured in Excel, AI can help spot items that may be missing compared with the drawings and specification, inconsistent units and unusual rates, but every quantity and figure must be confirmed by a QS or the person responsible.
Split long documents into sections and ask the AI to summarise under set headings, such as scope of work, bidder qualifications, required documents, deadlines, payment terms and penalties, citing the page or clause for each point. Then compare the summary with the original heading by heading to check completeness, because AI can skip important conditions, especially in long documents with many appendices.
Gather all the quotations and have the AI arrange them in one Excel table, matching equivalent work items. Then ask it to highlight differences, such as items some bidders left out, mismatched units or quantities and differing conditions, and summarise them in a comparison table for decision makers. Every figure must be checked against the original documents before use.
It suits architects and engineers who write specifications and reports, QS staff and estimators who prepare and check BOQs, contractors and construction project managers, and procurement or tendering staff who review large volumes of documents. You should have experience in design, engineering, construction or estimating and basic Excel skills such as formulas and tables; no programming is needed.
You will be able to summarise TORs and tender documents and check them against the originals, draft specifications, method statements and quality checklists from your organisation's templates, structure a BOQ in Excel and use AI to find errors before a QS confirms it, compare quotations and summarise variations, and write progress reports. Participants receive a Certificate of Completion with its own number that can be verified online.
You use your own or your organisation's ChatGPT, Claude or Microsoft 365 Copilot account, plus a Gemini account for Nano Banana; some features, such as Copilot in Excel, need a separate licence. The course focuses on document work for design and construction teams, so it does not teach quantity take-off in CAD or BIM software and does not use AI for structural calculations.
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