Training · September 18, 2026
AI for the Construction Industry
Home Builders Association of Alabama and Faulkner University Center for Continuing Education · Montgomery, Alabama
Presentations
Select Present full screen to show a deck. Move through the slides with the arrow keys or a presentation clicker, tap the left or right side of a slide, or swipe on a phone. Press Esc to exit. The afternoon decks and the 10-minute briefing also download as editable PowerPoint files, without speaker notes.
Morning session
AI Fundamentals
What AI is, how it works, why a polished answer can still be wrong, and a quick test for deciding which tasks AI fits.
All 15 slides
Afternoon session
Estimating & Bid Support
Where a chatbot earns its keep on pricing work, and where it will cost you money. The practice bids and prompts are on the Afternoon Exercise – Part 1 page.
All 7 slides
Afternoon session
Office Operations with Copilot & Microsoft 365
Copilot in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, a Copilot Chat path for everyone else, and your two-week pilot plan. The sample files and prompts are on the Office Operations page.
All 8 slides
10-minute briefing
Building-Specific AI vs. General AI
What construction software does that ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Copilot can’t, and what they have in common: examples of tools by job, how well chatbots read plans, and three things to do Monday. Tools and prices were checked in September 2026; the examples are not endorsements.
All 7 slides
Hands-on pages
Each page has the sample text and prompts from the session, with a Copy button on each one.
Estimating & Bid Support
Three sample bids, a scope-of-work excerpt, and both prompts.
Office Operations with Copilot
Meeting notes, a job cost table, the buyer-deck prompt, and your two-week pilot plan.
All sample data on these pages is fictional.
Try it yourself
Free, with nothing to install. Show your team on Monday.
- Teachable Machine: train an image model in your browser in about two minutes. This is the hard hat demo.
- Transformer Explainer: watch a real language model pick the next word, with the odds it gives each option.
- Quick, Draw!: two minutes of doodling that shows how a model learns from examples.
- Google Labs: Google’s current AI experiments.
- NIST AI Risk Management Framework: the published standard behind responsible AI use.