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AI Techniques for Plan Review

AI can cut hours off your plan review workflow — if you know the right techniques. safely. For free.

AI can cut hours off your plan review workflow — if you know the right techniques. This workshop is for plan reviewers and building officials at any experience level. Whether you've been experimenting with AI or haven't started yet, you'll leave with practical methods you can apply the same day. Everything we cover uses free, publicly available tools — Claude, ChatGPT, Co-Pilot. No vendor pitch, no procurement required. We'll walk through: • Code compliance checks — using AI to flag issues against IBC/IRC • Completeness reviews — catching missing documents and details before they slow you down • Building calculators — structural, energy, and occupancy lookups in seconds • Plan review checklists — generating jurisdiction-specific checklists from your local amendments • Q&A — bring your own plans or questions This workshop is completely free, and led by Ed Maclean, the co-founder of Set4. Set4 is a leading permitting solutions startup, piloting with cities and counties across the nation to deploy AI in their permit workflows.

Workshop

AI Techniques for Plan Review

AI can cut hours off your plan review workflow — if you know the right techniques. safely. For free.

AI can cut hours off your plan review workflow — if you know the right techniques. This workshop is for plan reviewers and building officials at any experience level. Whether you've been experimenting with AI or haven't started yet, you'll leave with practical methods you can apply the same day. Everything we cover uses free, publicly available tools — Claude, ChatGPT, Co-Pilot. No vendor pitch, no procurement required. We'll walk through: • Code compliance checks — using AI to flag issues against IBC/IRC • Completeness reviews — catching missing documents and details before they slow you down • Building calculators — structural, energy, and occupancy lookups in seconds • Plan review checklists — generating jurisdiction-specific checklists from your local amendments • Q&A — bring your own plans or questions This workshop is completely free, and led by Ed Maclean, the co-founder of Set4. Set4 is a leading permitting solutions startup, piloting with cities and counties across the nation to deploy AI in their permit workflows.

Workshop

Workshop: Using AI for TX Building Depts

Texas is growing faster than almost any state — and building departments are feeling it. safely. For free.

Texas is growing faster than almost any state — and building departments are feeling it. This workshop is built specifically for Texas plan reviewers, building officials, and permit staff. We'll focus on Texas-adopted codes (IBC/IRC with state amendments), local ordinance lookups, and the unique permitting challenges facing high-growth Texas cities. Everything we cover uses free, publicly available tools — Claude, ChatGPT, Co-Pilot. No procurement required, and most tasks fit within common AI-use guidelines already adopted by jurisdictions. We'll walk through: • Texas-specific code compliance checks — IBC/IRC with state amendments • Rapid lookups across Texas local amendments and city ordinances • Generating plan review checklists tailored to your Texas jurisdiction • Completeness checks against your city's specific submittal requirements • Bring AI into plan review to verify calculations, code issues, and design parameters • Q&A — bring your own plans, permits, or questions Whether you're in a fast-growing suburb of DFW, the Hill Country, or anywhere in between — if your department is stretched thin and you want practical AI techniques you can use today, this one's for you. This workshop is completely free, and led by Ed Maclean, the co-founder of Set4. Set4 is a leading permitting solutions startup, piloting with cities and counties across the nation to deploy AI in their permit workflows.

Workshop

Using AI in plan review: Deep dive

Plan review is one of the highest-leverage places to apply AI in a building department — and one of the easiest to get wrong. safely. For free.

Plan review is one of the highest-leverage places to apply AI in a building department — and one of the easiest to get wrong. This is a hands-on deep dive for plan reviewers, building officials, and anyone curious about how AI can actually help with redlines, code lookups, and completeness checks. Beginners and experienced users are both welcome — we'll start with the fundamentals and push into advanced patterns. Everything we'll use is free and publicly available (Claude, ChatGPT, Co-Pilot). No vendor pitch, no procurement required. We'll walk through: • using AI to look up and interpret code provisions in seconds • generating plan review checklists tailored to a specific permit type • checking submittal completeness against your city's requirements • safely summarizing long plan sets and narratives • prompting patterns that avoid common AI mistakes in a review context. This workshop is completely free, and led by Ed Maclean, the co-founder of set4. set4 is a leading permitting solutions startup, piloting with cities and counties across the nation to deploy AI in their permit workflows.

Join us for an in-depth discussion on how AI is transforming permit processes and building inspection workflows. Learn how building officials across the country are using AI to accelerate timelines and reduce backlogs.