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Certificate of Completion
AI Skills for Estimating, Inspection, Safety, and Business Operations
Every hour spent writing proposals, searching for code information, documenting inspections, managing schedules, or responding to emails is time you could be spending building projects, serving customers, and growing your business.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the construction industry, but most AI training is designed for office professionals and software engineers. This course is different.
This is practical AI training built specifically for people in the trades. Over seven modules, you'll learn how to use AI to estimate jobs faster, improve inspection and documentation processes, navigate code and safety requirements, and manage the business side of your trade with less paperwork.
No coding. No complicated software. Just real-world AI tools you can put to work the next day to save time, improve accuracy, and work more efficiently.
The course is organized around four practical pillars:
- Estimating & Bidding: Use AI to generate material takeoffs, check quantities, apply pricing, and create professional bid proposals. Build reusable prompts for the estimates you do most often.
- Visual Inspection & Quality Control: Use smartphone AI to measure dimensions, identify materials, flag potential defects, and create photo-based inspection reports, while learning where AI works well and where human judgment matters.
- Safety & Compliance: Research codes and permit requirements, create job-specific safety checklists and toolbox talks, and draft compliance documentation. Learn to verify AI-generated information against official sources. AI assists. You decide!
- Business Operations: Use AI to streamline scheduling, invoicing, and customer communication. Turn jobsite notes into professional updates and create marketing content that sounds like you.
What You’ll Leave With
Practical tools you can start using right away, including:
- Reusable AI prompts for your work
- Estimating, bidding, and inspection workflows
- Safety and compliance templates
- Tools for scheduling, invoicing, and customer communication
- A framework for evaluating new AI tools
- A personalized 30/60/90-day AI Action Plan
Anyone in the skilled trades industry to improve productivity using practical AI tools, including but not limited to:
- Carpenters and skilled trades professionals
- Residential and commercial contractors
- Construction supervisors and foremen
- Small business owners in the trades
- Apprentices and incumbent workers
- Estimators and project coordinators
No prior AI or technical experience is required. If you can use a smartphone and send an email, you can succeed in this course.
Format
Online | Self-Paced | Interactive
Seven modules, delivered online and self-paced, with weekly deadlines that keep the cohort moving together and the discussion active. You watch short videos, run hands-on exercises with your own projects, post to the discussion board, and submit weekly work.
You can work with TradeSmith, a free app for this course, or with AI tools you choose yourself.
Time Commitment:
14 Hours
You can expect to commit up to approximately two (2) hours per module on activities, exercises, and assignments.
Built on National AI Workforce Standards: This course aligns with the U.S. Department of Labor's AI Literacy Framework, helping professionals develop practical, workforce-ready AI skills while understanding responsible use, data privacy, ethical considerations, and the limitations of AI in real-world decision-making. Learn more about the AI Literacy Framework
Built Specifically for the Trades: Every example, exercise, and demonstration uses real construction and carpentry scenarios, not generic office workflows.
Practical and Hands-On: You will leave every module with tools, templates, and workflows that you can use immediately on the job.
Designed for Real Working Conditions: The asynchronous format allows you to complete modules around active projects, varying workloads, and family responsibilities.
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Jerry Gupta, MBA
Adjunct Instructor, Business Management, School of Management
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Upon completion you will earn 1.4 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) and a Wentworth verified digital credential/certificate of completion to showcase on their resume and online channels.
A CEU is not an academic credit; however, it is a nationally recognized standard of documenting the successful completion of non-degree professional training. One CEU is equivalent to ten instructional hours.
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