AI Essentials for Construction: Introductory Awareness

Cost: £0.00 - £25.00

This course is aimed at people working across the construction industry who want to understand how generative AI could support their role or business.

It will be particularly useful for:

● Business owners, directors and managers

● Project, contracts and commercial teams

● Administration and operational staff

● Tender and business development teams

● Marketing and communications staff

● HR and training teams

● Anyone already experimenting with tools such as ChatGPT

● Anyone with little or no previous experience of generative AI

No previous knowledge of AI is required.

Topics Covered Include:

● Understanding generative AI and large language models

● What AI can and cannot do

● AI in construction and realistic business use cases

● Using AI for administration and everyday business tasks

● Using AI to support tenders, documentation and communications

● Prompting fundamentals and giving AI better context

● Improving and challenging AI output

● Using follow-up prompts, examples and review

● Working with documents, checklists, templates and summaries

● AI hallucinations, accuracy and verification

● Confidentiality, personal data and commercially sensitive information

● Copyright, bias and responsible use

● Human checking, accountability and professional judgement

● Basic considerations for introducing AI within your business

● Construction-focused live demonstrations

● Q&A

We reserve the right to cancel or amend the timings of these events at any point up to the stated start time of the session.

Delegates may also cancel their booking at any time by following the link in their confirmation email.

The delegate acknowledges that all course material, program material or copies thereof are and will remain the property of CITB NI and are subject to copyright. It is expressly agreed that neither the delegate nor their sponsoring organisation will copy the whole or any part of those materials without the written consent of the training provider.

CITB NI accepts no responsibility delegate or their sponsoring organisation as a result of their participation in events or training  and shall not be liable for any loss or damage arising to the delegate, their sponsoring organisation or any third parties howsoever that loss or damage arises (save that this provision will not exclude liability for death or personal injury arising from the negligence of the training provider).

No variation to these conditions shall be binding unless agreed in writing between the authorised representatives of the training provider and the delegate and/or their sponsoring organisation. The delegate and their sponsoring organisation acknowledge that these terms and conditions supersede any written or verbal communication.