Learn How AI and Technology Work in AEC
Practical visual guides, technical articles, videos, and workshops that make emerging technology useful inside architecture, engineering, and construction firms.
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AIA Contract Document Families: Interactive Guide
An interactive dial-in sheet mapping how AIA agreements, exhibits, and amendments relate to each other by delivery method.
Project Delivery Method Decision Guide
An interactive decision sheet comparing Design-Bid-Build, CM at Risk, Design-Build, IPD, and more across five decision factors.
AI Systems for AEC Firms: A Visual Guide
A visual introduction to foundation models, AI harnesses, governed agentic workflows, traceability, and professional oversight for architecture and engineering firms.
AI Architecture Render Workshop
Master AI-powered tools and techniques to create stunning, photorealistic architectural visualizations in record time. This hands-on workshop covers prompting, style transfer, and ethical considerations. Sign up to get notified about the next cohort!
Rhino Creativity Course: Free Introduction
An introduction to a mini-course detailing the awesome ways you can use Rhino as a creative partner through the design process. Learn new workflows and mindsets for digital modeling.
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Architecture AI Workflow: Free Guide
Discover how to integrate AI into your architectural design process. This free workflow guide covers tools for concept generation, analysis, and documentation.
Articles
Articles on AI in architecture and engineering practice
9 articles on how firms are putting AI to work, what to do first, and how to judge what is marketed to you. Research reports with data and downloads are listed separately on the reports page.
- Practical GuideSeptember 5, 2026
AI Implementation for Architecture and Engineering Firms: What It Takes
Clean project data first, permissions that hold, then one workflow shipped with a person reviewing it. What AI implementation looks like inside an A/E firm, with the medallion data pattern in plain terms, a Copilot governance test, a deployment case study, and a 90-day plan.
Read the article - Practical GuideJuly 22, 2026
How Should My Architecture Firm Use AI? A Practical Answer
Start with one workflow, measure it, and ignore most of what is marketed to you. Where AI pays back first in an architecture firm (proposals, firm knowledge search, drawing QA), what to avoid, and a 90-day plan any 10-100 person firm can run.
Read the article - AnalysisUpdated July 2026
The Latest in AEC AI and Tech: What Actually Matters
A running answer to the question every firm leader asks: what is actually new, and what does it mean for my practice? Funding, incumbent moves, new tools, and market signals, refreshed monthly from our weekly news tracking.
Read the article - ThesisJuly 14, 2026
Our thesis on AI: firm context, workflows, and human review
AI is not a tool your teams use. It is a layer your firm becomes. The AEC Hub thesis on AI: the three capabilities that make it work in practice, defined workflows, trusted context, and human judgment, with five AEC workflows drawn as layers.
Read with a free account - AnalysisJuly 16, 2026
AEC-Bench mapped to the five levels of AI drawing review
KP Reddy's five-level framework for AI drawing review (reading, comprehension, understanding, application, outcomes), mapped against AEC-Bench's published results. Where today's evidence actually sits, where vendor claims sit, and what to demand at each level.
Read the article - Intelligence BriefingJuly 12, 2026
AEC Intelligence Briefing: July 2026
Seven signals worth your attention: ABI at 44.5, Higharc's $95M Series C, Autodesk's neural CAD and $3.6B MaintainX deal, and the thread through all of them, the drawing is getting cheaper, and value is moving to judgment, ownership, and building performance.
Read the article - StrategyJune 14, 2025
The 3 Waves of AI in Architecture
How AI is changing the AEC industry in three phases, and what firms should do in each.
Read the article - StrategyMarch 2026
AI-Augmented UX Research: Turning Insights Into Organizational Knowledge
Adopting an AI moderator tool is the small step. Turning research findings from one-time deliverables into living knowledge systems is the larger one: insights that are discoverable at the exact moment a PM, designer, or stakeholder needs them.
Read the article - StrategyMay 1, 2026
The 4 E's: A Strategy Framework for AEC Technology Decisions
A four-lens framework, Exploration, Effort, Efficiency, and Expense, for AEC firms making technology decisions, with the evidence on why most digital transformations and enterprise AI deployments fall short.
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