Construction
Private AI for project documents, from tender to handover.
Construction projects generate specifications, drawings registers, method statements, site records and correspondence. Private AI can help teams find and use that information faster, with project and client data kept in an environment you control.
Use cases
Key AI use cases
Use cases for project, site and commercial teams.
Specification and contract search
Ask questions across specifications, contracts and employer's requirements and see the source clause.Project document search
Find information across drawings registers, RFIs, meeting minutes and site records.RAMS support
Prepare first drafts of risk assessments and method statements from your templates, for competent people to review.Reports and correspondence
Draft progress reports, site diaries and routine correspondence from notes.
Who it helps
Built around the people doing the work
Who it helps
- Project and site managers
- Quantity surveyors and commercial teams
- Health and safety managers
- Design and document controllers
Challenges we often hear
- Large and changing project document sets
- Information spread across shared drives, emails and platforms
- Client and project data that should not go to public AI tools
- Time spent writing reports and paperwork
How it works
From a site question to the right clause
An example of how a site manager might use a private assistant.
Your information
- Specifications and contracts
- Drawings registers and RFIs
- RAMS templates
- Site records and minutes
Private AI environment
- Hosted in an environment you control
- Searches only what each user may access
- Shows the sources behind each answer
What your team gets
- Answers citing project documents
- Draft RAMS for review
- Draft reports and correspondence
Connect the project
Agreed project documents are indexed in your private environment.
Ask on site
A site manager asks what the specification requires for a particular element.
Search current documents
The assistant searches the project's documents that the user can access.
Answer with references
It replies with the relevant clause and document references.
Confirm before acting
The site manager checks the current revision before acting.
Benefits
What it can mean for your organisation
The outcomes we design for. Results depend on your data, people and processes, and are agreed with you rather than assumed.
Information found faster
Less time searching through project folders.
Less paperwork time
First drafts of reports and RAMS ready to review.
Project data protected
Client and project information stays in your environment.
Knowledge across projects
Lessons from past projects easier to find and reuse.
Capabilities
AI capabilities and recommended models
AI capabilities
- Question answering across project documents
- Drafting RAMS and reports from templates
- Summarising minutes and correspondence
- Reading scanned documents and site records
- Tracking document revisions
Recommended model types
General-purpose language model
Hosted in your environment for drafting and summarising.
Embedding model for document search
Finds the most relevant clauses and records across project documents.
Document reading (OCR)
Converts scanned forms and site records into searchable text.
Specific models are chosen during design based on your data, languages, accuracy needs and infrastructure, and explained in plain language.
Integrations
Works alongside your existing systems
Typical systems we plan around. Integrations depend on the systems you use and the access they allow, and are confirmed during design.
- Common data environments and document platforms
- Project management tools
- Shared drives
- Estimating and commercial systems
- Office productivity tools
Security & compliance
Security, privacy and compliance
Security is considered throughout design, deployment and operation, and discussed openly.
In every environment
- Designed so your data is not shared with public AI services
- Access tied to your own users and permissions
- Hosting location agreed with you
- Configuration documented, so it is never a black box
Considerations for Construction
- Client and project information kept out of public AI services
- Access controlled by project and role
- Requirements such as CDM documentation and building safety information management reviewed during design
- Competent people review all safety documents before use
Compliance stays with you and your advisers
Case studies
Case studies in Construction
No published case studies yet
We publish case studies only for completed projects that clients have approved for publication. There are none for Construction yet. We are happy to talk through how a project could be scoped.
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