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How to Use AI & ChatGPT in Construction Estimating: A Step-by-Step Guide
- Beginner-friendly introduction to AI and ChatGPT in construction estimating
- Where AI can support the estimating workflow
- Common challenges in traditional estimating processes
- Using ChatGPT to organize bid information and scope notes
- Drafting RFIs, clarification questions, exclusions, and assumptions
- Creating estimate checklists and bid-review checklists
- Supporting cost breakdown structures and estimate narratives
- Summarizing historical cost information and prior bid notes
- Comparing supplier, vendor, and subcontractor quote information
- Writing practical prompts for estimating documentation and communication
- Step-by-step workflow for testing ChatGPT on low-risk estimating tasks
- Confidentiality, accuracy, data quality, and governance considerations
- Where human estimator judgment remains essential
- Future trends in AI-supported construction estimating
Overview of the webinar
This webinar provides a practical beginner-to-intermediate guide to using AI and ChatGPT in construction estimating. It focuses on how AI can support the surrounding workflow of estimation, including reviewing bid information, organizing assumptions, drafting scope clarification questions, preparing estimate checklists, summarizing historical cost information, supporting bid narratives, and improving communication between estimating, commercial, project, and procurement teams.
The session is designed for construction professionals who want to understand how ChatGPT can be used as a controlled productivity tool rather than as a replacement for professional estimating expertise. It will explore common estimating pain points, such as repetitive documentation, inconsistent scope notes, unclear exclusions, manual bid review processes, and time spent converting project information into structured estimating outputs.
Attendees will learn how to write clearer prompts for estimating-related tasks, use AI to produce better drafts and checklists, and apply simple review controls before relying on any AI-assisted output. The webinar will also cover practical limitations, confidentiality considerations, and the importance of human review when using AI in pricing, tendering, cost planning, and bid preparation.
Who should attend?
- Estimators and Senior Estimators
- Quantity Surveyors and Cost Managers
- Commercial Managers
- Preconstruction Managers
- Project Managers involved in bidding and costing
- Procurement Professionals
- Bid Managers and Proposal Coordinators
- Contractors, Subcontractors, and Construction Consultants
- Professionals involved in pricing, tendering, scope review, and cost planning
- Suitable for estimators, assistant estimators, quantity surveyors, cost managers, construction managers, commercial teams, and construction professionals who are new to AI or at an early stage of exploring how ChatGPT can support estimating-related workflows.
Why should you attend?
Construction estimating is becoming more document-heavy, time-sensitive, and data-driven. Estimators and construction teams are often expected to review specifications, clarify scope, compare supplier and subcontractor information, organize assumptions, and prepare bid documentation quickly and consistently.
This session provides a clear beginner-to-intermediate introduction to how AI and ChatGPT can support that work. Attendees will learn practical ways to use ChatGPT for organizing estimating information, drafting clarification questions, building checklists, improving documentation, summarizing scope information, and supporting bid-preparation workflows.
The session is especially useful for professionals who want a realistic starting point for using AI. ChatGPT can support estimating workflows, but it does not replace estimator judgment, cost engineering expertise, pricing decisions, quantity takeoff, or formal commercial review.
Faculty - Mr.Mike Cunningham
Mike Cunningham is an AI workflow trainer and webinar presenter specialising in the practical use of artificial intelligence in professional environments. He helps professionals understand how tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI platforms can be applied to everyday workplace tasks in realistic, controlled, and commercially useful ways.
With a background in multimedia, digital communication, and professional training, Mike focuses on translating rapidly evolving AI capabilities into clear and accessible workflows. His sessions move beyond generic demonstrations to explore how AI can support tasks such as research, drafting, summarisation, documentation, reporting, data analysis, client communication, and process improvement.
A key focus of Mike’s training is responsible and effective AI adoption. His sessions address important considerations including confidentiality, data handling, verification, human oversight, and professional judgement. AI is presented not as a replacement for professional expertise, but as a tool that can reduce repetitive work, improve clarity, accelerate analysis, and support better-informed working practices.
Across a range of professional and business-focused topics, Mike provides structured examples and workflows that attendees can evaluate and adapt to their own roles and organisations. His approach combines clear communication with practical application, helping professionals develop a realistic understanding of where AI adds value, where its limitations remain, and how it can be used safely and effectively in the workplace.