🏗️ AI training for construction and design teams
At construction and design firms, headquarters and sites do completely different work. HQ handles bidding, contracts, design management, and cost documents, while sites spend their time on scheduling, safety, and dealing with the project owner. Put both through one curriculum and neither side sees its own work in it.
This course builds on what defines construction: a high volume of documents in fixed formats. The more standardized the document, such as specifications, plans, and reports, the better AI drafts it, leaving people more time for review and judgment.
What teams in construction and design actually do with AI
These are the tasks you practice in training. We work with real documents from your company, collected in advance, not another company’s examples.
| Task | What you do with AI |
|---|---|
| Summarizing bid notice and scope-of-work requirements | Extract eligibility requirements, required documents, deadlines, and penalty clauses from long notices into a table. We put the items that disqualify a bid if missed at the top. |
| Spec and design-document review summaries | Flags differences between special and standard specifications, and spots where drawings and specs may conflict, then compiles them into a review list. Final judgment stays with your engineers. |
| Safety management plans and risk assessment drafts | Enter the work type and site conditions to get a draft plan outline and a list of risk factors, with relevant past accident cases attached. |
| Organizing daily and weekly site reports | Turn field notes and photo descriptions into the standard report format, and pull out the reasons for schedule delays separately. |
| Client inquiry and reply documents | Organize owner queries with their supporting clauses and draft the reply. Covers how to instruct AI to keep the wording of contract documents intact. |
| Comparing subcontractor and materials quotes | Build a comparison table from quotes in different formats using the same line items, and flag missing items and unit-price outliers. |
What we always factor in when designing training for construction and design teams
These are the points where a generic office-worker curriculum falls flat.
HQ and site work differ — Put HQ office staff and site managers in the same class, and half the practice examples won’t apply to half the room. We either split the audience or prepare two sets of practice files.
In contract documents, wording is liability — In client replies and contract-related documents, AI’s smoother rewording can actually create risk. We teach a clear line between drafting and review.
Sites can rarely spare training time — With construction schedules at stake, a full-day session is practically impossible. A realistic format is a 2-hour session repeated site by site.
Curriculum ① All-employee and practitioner track
Half-day (4-hour) agenda
Audience All office and administrative staff, from team members to team leads. It’s fine if more than half have never used AI.
Goal Everyone leaves having handed one real task from their own desk to AI.
| # | Module | Details | hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What works and what doesn’t right now | In one session, we compare how ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude differ in real work and what you get with paid plans versus free ones. It is not a tool showcase. It gives you what you need to decide which tools to turn on for your company account. | 30 min |
| 2 | Giving AI instructions — the 4 elements of a prompt | Role, context, format, verification. The difference between people who use AI well and those who don't is not talent but whether they leave out one of these four. We give the same task a poor instruction and a good one, and compare the results side by side. | 45 min |
| 3 | Six ways to use AI in construction and design work | This session is the heart of the course. We collect real documents from your company in advance and practice with them. With another company’s examples, what you learn doesn’t follow you back to your desk.
| 55 min |
| 4 | Creating documents — from draft to approval | We take reports, internal approval memos, and emails from first draft to final version, always finishing by stripping out the AI tone and rewriting them in your organization’s own voice. | 40 min |
| 5 | Working with data — tables, meeting notes, long documents | Organizing Excel tables, summarizing meeting recordings, and finding just the clauses you need in long policy documents. This is where the tasks people used to spend the most time on get faster. | 35 min |
| 6 | What not to do — confidential information, hallucinations, copyright | What must never go into an AI tool, how to catch facts the AI makes up, and how far you can use its output under your company’s name. Skip this session, and the training itself can lead to an incident.
| 35 min |
Program ② Executive and team lead track
Standard format for a 2-hour session
Audience Executives, division heads, team leads and other managers — leaders who need to know 'what needs deciding' rather than how to use the tools themselves.
Goal To leave the room with clear decisions on what to do first and what to prohibit when bringing AI into the organization.
| # | Module | Details | hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where you stand today | We cover only what has actually changed in the past year. Not technology forecasts, but what is already happening inside companies — starting from the fact that employees are already using AI. | 30 min |
| 2 | Where construction and design change first | The same technology hits each industry in a different place. We identify which tasks in this sector change first.
| 35 min |
| 3 | How to adopt AI — start with tasks, not tools | If you start by buying accounts, most go unused within three months. We flip the order: choose the tasks first, then measure the results. | 30 min |
| 4 | Four decisions leaders must make | What is allowed, what is prohibited, tools and budget, and how to measure results. You leave with draft wording written that same day. | 25 min |
Training hours and cost
Estimated fees are based on our published standard rates (Korean-language delivery, up to 30 participants per class). 2026 published standard rates, in units of KRW 10,000 (≈ US$7). VAT, materials, travel, and customization are extra.
| Format | Format | Estimated fee |
|---|---|---|
| 2-hour lecture | We condense this into the first three modules (the tool landscape · the 4 elements of a prompt · industry use cases). The goal: 'Try at least one thing before you leave.' | About KRW 1.2 million (≈ US$900) |
| 4-hour half-day workshop | All six modules, with half the time spent on hands-on practice. The format most clients choose. | About KRW 2.4 million (≈ US$1,800) |
| 8-hour full-day program | Six modules (240 minutes) plus 240 minutes of team practice and presentations. Each team picks one of its own tasks and finishes it that same day. | About KRW 4 million (≈ US$2,990) |
Sessions in English are KRW 800,000 (≈ US$600) per hour. Multi-session programs and public-sector or tender projects are priced separately — contact us for details.
Is it eligible for Korean employment insurance reimbursement?
Nanum Consulting’s on-site training is not an Employment Insurance reimbursement (employer-commissioned training) program.
To receive an employment insurance refund, training must be delivered as commissioned training under a course approved by the Ministry of Employment and Labor. Nanum Consulting does not hold training course approval, so our on-site training is not eligible for refunds.
If a refund is a requirement for budget approval, please tell us when you first contact us. We will point you to a route that fits that requirement, and if we are not the right fit, we will say so. Learning after you have started that no refund is available is far worse for both sides.
Budgets often work out without a refund. A 2-hour session at KRW 1.2 million (≈ US$900) comes to KRW 40,000 (≈ US$30) per person for 30 participants, and is fully deductible as a training expense. Refund-eligible courses must follow a fixed standard curriculum, but without a refund we can build the curriculum around your own work and real documents.
Get a proposal for this program
We bundle the curriculum and an estimated quote into a single PDF and send it right away. No phone number needed, just your name and email. We’re happy to talk even if your requirements aren’t settled yet, and we reply within 24 hours.
Common questions from construction and design managers
Can we feed design drawings into AI for review?
Can you train only site managers and supervisors separately?
Can the training be split across multiple sites?
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The curriculum on this page is a standard format; in practice we adjust it to reflect your work documents and pre-training assessment results. Amounts shown are estimated fees based on our published standard rates, and VAT, materials, travel, and customization costs are extra.