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How to Use Claude in Construction Estimation
Date & Time
Wed, November 25, 2026
10:00 AM PST
01:00 PM EST
Duration
60 Mins
Webinar ID
IQW26K1182
Level
Basic & Intermediate
Speaker
Mr.Mike Cunningham
- Beginner-friendly introduction to Claude in construction estimation
- Where Claude can support the estimating workflow
- Common challenges in traditional estimating and bid-review processes
- Using Claude to organize scope notes, bid information, assumptions, and exclusions
- Reviewing takeoff exports and creating estimator review questions
- Supporting cost-code, trade-package, and CSI classification review
- Comparing supplier and subcontractor quote coverage and drafting clarification questions
- Summarizing historical cost information and estimate-review commentary
- Reviewing addenda and identifying affected estimate areas for follow-up
- Supporting Excel-based estimate review and structured checklists
- Preparing estimate-to-project handoff notes and review-ready documentation
- Writing practical prompts for estimating analysis, documentation, and communication
- Step-by-step workflow for testing Claude on low-risk estimating tasks
- Confidentiality, accuracy, data quality, governance, and human review
Overview of the webinar
This webinar provides a practical beginner-to-intermediate guide to using Claude in construction estimation. It focuses on how Claude can support the workflow around the estimate, including reviewing bid information, organizing assumptions and exclusions, preparing scope clarification questions, structuring estimate review tables, summarizing historical cost information, comparing subcontractor quote coverage, reviewing addenda, and improving communication between estimating, commercial, project, and procurement teams.
The session is designed for construction professionals who want to use Claude as a controlled productivity and review-support tool rather than as a replacement for professional estimating expertise. Attendees will see how approved exports, spreadsheets, scope notes, quote matrices, and bid documentation can be turned into clearer review questions, checklists, comparison tables, and first-draft narratives.
The webinar will also cover practical prompt-writing techniques, data confidentiality, source limitations, and the importance of validating every Claude-assisted output before it influences quantities, pricing, scope, tendering, cost planning, or bid decisions. The aim is to help attendees identify safe first use cases and build simple, repeatable Claude-assisted estimating workflows.
Who should attend?
- Estimators
- Assistant Estimators
- Preconstruction Managers
- Senior Estimators
- Quantity surveyors
- Cost Managers
- Construction Managers
- Commercial Managers
- Commercial Teams
- Project Managers involved in bidding and costing
- Procurement Professionals
- Bid Managers and Proposal Coordinators
- Contractors
- Subcontractors
- Construction Consultants
- Professionals involved in pricing, tendering, scope review, and cost planning
- Construction Professionals who are new to Claude or at an early stage of exploring how AI 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 Claude can support that work. Attendees will learn practical ways to use Claude for organizing estimating information, summarizing scope, drafting clarification questions, building review checklists, comparing quote information, and preparing clearer estimating documentation.
The session is designed for professionals who want a realistic starting point for using AI in estimating. Claude can support review, drafting, comparison, and documentation workflows, but it does not replace estimator judgment, quantity takeoff verification, market pricing knowledge, commercial review, or final bid decisions.
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.