AI Core Skills for Construction Professionals
INTRODUCTION
Course Duration: 2 x 2 hours
Description:
Session 1:
This session ensures you are set up correctly, confidently, and safely before applying AI to real work.
You will learn:
- Different prompt techniques for reliable, high-quality outputs
- Meta prompting to fix weak or inconsistent outputs
- How to personalise AI tools so you always get the outcomes you want
- Core principles of data privacy, confidentiality, and responsible use
- Understanding the EU AI Act
By the end of this session, you are enabled, informed, and using AI safely and correctly.
Session 2: Apply It
This session is focused on real output and behaviour change.
Productivity:
Learn how to interact with AI to get better results faster and reduce mental effort.
You will learn:
- Agent Mode for complex tasks
- Using AI for meeting notes, summaries, and action extraction
- The emphasis is on reducing friction and cognitive load in day-to-day work.
Research and reporting:
Learn how to use AI to make sense of information and support better decisions.
You will learn how to:
- Carry out robust desk research quickly and easily
- Create reports and slide decks from a single prompt
- Gather, analyse, and synthesise data into clear insights
- Refine and improve existing work
- Translate intent into clear instructions
- Identify quick wins and low-effort improvements
- You will also learn from how others apply AI in different roles and contexts.
By the end of the course, you’ll leave with:
At least one high-value use case ready to apply immediately
Improved prompts, tools and workflows tailored to your work
Greater confidence using AI independently beyond the course.
Participants will move from beginner or cautious user to confident, capable AI practitioner, without jargon, hype, or technical complexity.
This course focuses on real use cases from the construction sector, real tasks, and real workflows. is practical, hands-on and designed for immediate application at work.
Book your place today: Daria Choromanska – daria@cita.ie – admin@cita.ie or phone: 086 014 4853
For training dates and details please see our Course Schedule