Engineers & construction managers
Use the AI assistant your employer allows to draft and cross-check the paperwork of a construction job: RFIs, submittal cover notes, daily reports, look-ahead constraints, emails, change timelines, punch and closeout lists. Every calculation, design and safety decision, price, notice and signature stays with the qualified person who answers for it.
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9 short lessons · 57 min of audio · a final exam and a course certificate
Use an AI assistant for the reading, matching and drafting on a construction job — RFIs, specs, daily reports, look-aheads, emails, changes and punch lists — while design, safety, price and contract decisions stay with the people who sign.
the RFI with one question, the spec clause you can point to, and the structural question that belongs to the engineer who signs: The RFI the designer can answer; The clause you can point to; The math and the signature
the daily report written as evidence, what each crew is waiting for, and the email that becomes an instruction: The daily report is evidence; What the crew is waiting for; The email that becomes an instruction
the change file built from dated quotes, punch items someone else can close, and the project week on one page: The change, the notice and the record; A punch item someone can close; The project week on one page
One page you keep where you work and hand to whoever covers for you: the checks you run every week on the logs, the spec, the daily report, the look-ahead, outgoing messages, changes and closeout, a red list of what the tool never decides, and the names of the people who sign on this project.
The certificate names that artefact and the tools you used — not a title. It carries a code anyone can check: verify a certificate.
The opening of lesson one, exactly as it plays inside — and the exercise that comes with it, which you can do right now without an account.
The mechanical drawings show a duct running along the ceiling of the reading room. The structural drawings show a steel beam in the same place, at the same height. Somebody has to ask the design team what to do.
An RFI, a request for information, is the formal written question a contractor sends when the contract documents, which include the drawings and the specification, are unclear, contradict each other or leave something out. Some places call it a technical query. The answer comes back in writing and becomes part of the project record.
This course follows Amara, a project engineer at a mid-size general contractor, the company that holds the main building contract and hires the specialist trades. Her job is a new town library. Luis is the superintendent, who runs the site day to day, a role some countries call site manager. Amara reports to the project manager. She deals with the architects and engineers who designed the building, with the town's representative, who speaks for the owner, and with the subcontractors, the companies that do each trade. If you work in a design office, you receive most of what Amara sends.
A good RFI asks one question, points to the exact place in the documents, and leaves the answer to the designer.
An assistant such as ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot or Gemini is useful here. An RFI often starts as a photo, a few words in a notebook and a conversation on a ladder. Turning that into a clean question is drafting most assistants handle well. In her employer's approved tool, Amara says: "Here are my notes from the site walk. Draft an RFI with one question only, using the drawing and spec references I gave you. Say what we found, and which work is waiting on the answer. Do not suggest a design solution, and do not add any reference I did not give you."
Try it now · Split an RFI into single questions
Where:Your approved work assistant, with names taken out
Here is an RFI with the names taken out: [PASTE THE RFI]. Split it into single questions and list every reference it contains. Do not suggest a design solution, and do not add any reference that is not in it.
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