Currently, at the start of a construction project, we review the project's specifications and extract the prescribed products listed to send the required technical documentation as outlined in our contract. Since we work with multiple suppliers, we often have equivalent alternatives to the products specified in the document.
Next, we submit the technical data sheets for our suppliers' products, filling out the shop drawing identification form provided by the general contractor.
I believe this process takes far too much time and could be easily automated.
I'd like to know if it’s possible to train an AI model that can:
Read an architectural specification document: Extract all the prescribed materials and place them in an Excel file (based on a template).
Allow manual review and selection: Let me review the information in the Excel file. Through dropdown menus, I can choose whether to submit the technical data sheet for the prescribed product or an equivalent product.
Generate complete technical documents: After I submit the finalized Excel file with my choices, the AI would:
Send the documents automatically: Optionally, I could approve the AI to send these technical data sheets directly by email.
2. Change orders (CO)
When I have a contract, I often receive Change Orders (CO), which are instructions that affect the scope of work by adding or removing contractual tasks. To handle these, I need to: