What You'll Learn on This Online Course
AI Fundamentals
Understand the theory, terminology, history, and foundations of how AI systems are built.
We give you 3 skills to create an AI strategy for your team or company:
- First principles of AI development.
- Costs of using AI today, ROI, strengths, and limitations of AI solutions.
- Analyze frequently used AI tech stacks.
Build AI Bots with No-Code Tools
Implement and test AI on a sandbox project. Learn how to use no-code AI agents to automate your common workflows.
We show you how to customize no-code AI for 3 construction use cases:
- AI to analyze PDF Construction Contracts.
- AI to write site inspections from photos.
- AI to search building codes, CAD & reports.
Build Custom AI Tools with Python
Learn by building. Create in-house AI tools customized to your construction workflows with Python for absolute beginners.
We build 4 Python AI apps using construction-specific templates:
- AI to create bill of quantities from CAD PDF.
- AI to analyze PDF Construction Contracts.
- AI to draft inspection reports from photos.
- AI to restyle buildings with photos and prompts.
Complimentary Benefits with Your Training Enrollment
Free trial of our software suite
Put into practice things you've learned with complimentary trial access.
Join a 500+ Community
You're invited to our Discord Server community:
- Ask questions while learning on the course.
- Get ideas for your final project.
- Share your final project with others and get feedback.
Who is this training most suitable for?
Learn to use AI to turn site photos into a draft inspection report
- Civil Engineers are the jack of all trades in the construction industry.
- Unfortunately they also frequently get caught up in needing to perform repetitive, mundane data entry and document control.
- We explain how AI can be the perfect side-kick in helping you automate some of the manual tasks and focus on the thing you love about the job.
- In this course we will show you how you can both customise no code tools and develop your own in-house tools with simple Python scripts.
- We will show you how to build and use an AI for analysing site photos and writing a draft site inspection report as a word document.
- This application we build can be further customised and adapted to gather and structure information from other visual data sources and create first draft reports.
Learn to use AI to analyse Construction contracts & highlight risks
- Project Managers have to spin many plates and know everything about their project all at once.
- This can sometimes be more than is humanely possible, leading to stress and burnout.
- We explain how AI can help you flag issues to the surface without you getting lost in the detail.
- In this course we will show you how you can both customise no code tools and develop your own with simple Python scripts.
- We will show you how to build and use an AI for analysing construction contracts, creating a table of the risky clauses which have been identified, along with page numbers, even drafting you a renegotiation email
- This will be an example application to show and inspire you how straightforward it is to use AI to help you derisk your project
Learn to use AI to redesign buildings from photos + prompts
- Architects need to bring the creativity and the design spark to a project thinking through thousands of interlinked factors and avoiding pitfalls.
- Visualising and testing your ideas can be time consuming and costly and the number of ideas you can test is linked to the overall success of your project.
- We explain how AI can help you experiment with different design styles and finishes without needing manual effort.
- In this course we will show you how you can both customise no code tools and develop your own with simple Python scripts.
- We will show you how to build and use an AI for restyling the interior and exterior of buildings using diffusion models.
- This will be an example application which can be further iterated on to improve resemblance.
Learn to use AI to automatically create take-offs from CAD PDFs
- Estimators are needed on every project need to win the work and price jobs accurately, they also need to outperform their competition to win the work.
- Unfortunately estimators also need to do lots of repetitive counting, measuring and quantifying.
- Forunately vision intelligence AI can give estimators a great advantage over their competitors, not only speeding up the estimating process but improving accuracy.
- In this course we will show you how you can both customise no code tools and develop your own with simple Python scripts.
- We will show you how to build and use an AI for creating Excel bill of quantities and material take offs directly from PDF CAD Drawings.
- This will be an example application which can be further iterated on to further categorise and organise the data being extracted.
Learn to use AI to automatically find design details from CAD PDFs
- CAD Managers are the gatekeepers for the most key details in the company, the CAD drawings and BIM models.
- Unfortunately drawings are constantly being changed, details get lost and it can be impossible to find key information from past projects.
- AI can help CAD Managers organise their entire repository of CAD Drawings, read or add metadata and enable details to be easily reused.
- In this course we will show you how you can both customise no code tools and develop your own with simple Python scripts.
- We will show you how to use Civils.ai to automatically organise your companies PDF CAD Drawing archive.
- We will also show you how to build an example AI application to read and extract quantities from CAD Drawings which can be further adapted to collect different types of data automatically from PDF drawings.
Complete the Course by Implementing a Customized AI Solution
In the course modules, we provide everything you need to implement an AI solution using no-code tools or Python.
Hi, I'm Stevan
Before starting Civils.ai, I worked as a Civil Engineer for Arup, contributing to tunnel projects in the UK and Singapore. In 2020, I began teaching myself coding and created the early concept of Civils.ai as a final project. Since then, I've been dedicated to bringing AI automation to repetitive tasks on construction projects.
I wanted to share the lessons we've learned in bringing AI to construction projects and help others get started with this amazing technology.
Select your training pathway
Module 1 - Course Introduction
We kick off the course by explaining exactly how the course works.
Lesson duration: 10 mins
Lesson type: Theory
Things you will learn:
- Structure of the course with theory & practical.
- Introduction to your instructor.
- Course resources.
Module 2 - History and Foundations of AI
Get a fundamental understanding of foundational AI technologies and how AI applications work.
Lesson duration: 30 mins
Lesson type: Theory
Things you will learn:
- The history of AI going back to the 1800's.
- Demystifying definitions and terminology.
- An overview of foundational AI technologies.
- How AI models are trained and deployed.
Module 3 - Implementing AI on Construction Projects with No-Code Solutions
Learn how to use AI without coding to boost productivity on construction projects.
Lesson duration: 45 mins
Lesson type: Practical
Things you will learn:
- Introduction to AI Agents.
- How to use AI Agents in construction.
- Practical applications for construction tasks.
Module 4 - Implementing AI on Construction Projects with Python
Learn the basics of Python scripting and interact with AI models for construction tasks.
Lesson duration: 60 mins
Lesson type: Practical
Things you will learn:
- Introduction to Python scripting for beginners.
- API usage and AI model inference.
- Creating autonomous AI agents.
Module 5 - Publishing Your AI Applications
Learn how to publish your AI applications for team access.
Lesson duration: 50 mins
Lesson type: Practical
Things you will learn:
- Introduction to web application hosting.
- Publishing AI applications for construction tasks.
- Controlling access to applications.
Module 6 - Fine-tuning AI for Construction
In this final practical session, we will build 4 complete apps for different construction use cases.
Lesson duration: 60 mins
Lesson type: Practical
Things you will learn:
- AI for CAD: Estimating quantities from PDF CAD Drawings.
- AI for Civil Engineering: Analyzing site photographs and writing inspection reports.
- AI for Contractors: Analyzing contracts and summarizing key risks.
- AI for Architects: Restyling building interiors and exteriors.
We explain the AI and Privacy regulations you need to know about in 2024 if you are developing or using AI applications.
Lesson duration: 20 mins
Lesson type: Theory
Things you will learn:
- Global AI and privacy regulations which are in effect today from both the developer and user perspective
- Regulations on the horizon
- How to make sure you stay on the right side of the regulations
Why invest in your AI skills in 2024?
- Calculate the ROI of any AI solutions you are using or plan to use.
- Implement solutions to speed up the repetitive tasks which you hate.
- Test out a real AI solution (Civils.ai) with the costs fully covered.
- Deeply understand the underlying tech stack behind solutions you use.
- Audit if the solutions you are using comply with the latest regs.
- Your competition is always looking for an edge and the fast evolving space of AI provides the perfect opportunity.
- Knowledge gaps exist and you end up not fully understanding the logic behind new tools available to you.
- An increasing number of construction tasks are being automated with Software & Robotics. Do not get left behind thinking everything is a 'black box'.
Complete the course & receive your signed digital certificate
- Become an AI in Construction Specialist.
- Join the 300+ Alumni network.
- Position your interest in AI & belief in it's power at the heart of your career.
