Discover AI - Getting started

Discover practical AI solutions for your daily work. From fundamentals to direct application – learn about the most important AI tools and implement them immediately. The course provides solid AI understanding, data protection practices, concrete efficiency hacks, and simple creation of your own GPTs. Experience hands-on sessions tailored directly to your daily work. Between the two course days, you'll have time to apply and deepen your knowledge. Suitable for all professional fields in the construction and planning industry.

Competencies

Participants will acquire these competencies in the course:

  • You understand what AI really is and can purposefully use various AI tools for your daily work tasks

  • You master professional prompting and can communicate precisely with AI systems

  • You know which data you may enter into AI tools in compliance with data protection regulations and which not

  • You select the right tool for each use case

  • You recognize AI errors and apply quality control to AI-generated content

  • You use multimodal AI functions (text, photos, transcripts, PDFs, ...)

  • You know the basics to set up your own GPT in a simple way

  • You immediately implement the 10 most important efficiency hacks for daily work

Program

Afternoon 1: AI Fundamental Understanding and Practical Competence

  • What is AI really? Demystification and practical understanding

  • Data Protection Practice: What may I enter, what not?

  • The most important AI tool categories: LLMs, Research-AI, Image-AI

  • Prompting Essentials: The art of precise AI communication

  • Tool selection by use case

  • Custom GPTs: Setting up your own GPT simply


Between course days:

  • Independent testing of learned techniques

  • Collecting questions for the second course day


Afternoon 2: Practice Module - From First Prompt to Workflow

  • Q&A Session: Discussing experiences and problems encountered

  • Hands-on session with direct workplace reference

  • Quality Control: Recognizing and correcting AI errors

  • Understanding and effectively using AI multimodality

  • The 10 most important efficiency hacks for daily work

Target group

  • Architects

  • Civil Engineers

  • HVAC Planners

  • Landscape Architects and Spatial Planners

  • Environmental and Geomatics Specialists

  • Project Managers and Managing Directors

  • Authorities

  • Client Representatives

  • Real Estate Administrations

  • All professionals in the construction and planning industry who want to efficiently integrate AI into their daily work

Speakers

Adrian Müller
AI Coach & Architect, Architect BA FH/HSLU

Adrian Müller, architect and founder of aiia Coaching, combines traditional architectural values with the possibilities offered by current AI tools. He supports construction and creative teams in using AI in a targeted manner to optimize processes and create space for core tasks. This creates room for sustainable, sensual, and context-related architecture that is individually tailored to the needs of the client.

Costs

In addition to the course fees, the above-mentioned costs for subscriptions (+ approx. CHF 60 in total) must be added individually. These are not included in the course fees!

  • Students: CHF 404.-

  • SIA corporate members: CHF 665.-

  • SIA individual members: CHF 808.-

  • Non-members: CHF 950.-

Registration

Date / Location / Time

  • 6 May + 13 May 2026, Lausanne, 1:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m., to register

Registration





If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the SIA inForm team by e-mail.