TT5: AI in the Room

April 2, 2026

This weekly email is my curated selection of interesting and useful topics related to BIM, design, and technology. I aim to provide you with some good information and a few laughs along the way. So, what did I find interesting this week? Read down to find out!

This week has a clear thread running through it, and that's what digital practice actually looks like when you move past the concept and into the work. Fitting timing, since Claude Workflows for Architects kicked off yesterday with 60 students. Two links this week come from practitioners (like me) mid-experiment with AI in Revit. One zooms out to ask why most firms still struggle to adopt technology even when the tools are right in front of them. And there is a solid IFC breakdown and a Q2 events guide to round things out. Alright, here are five things to check out this week. 

#1: Using AI as a Design Partner Inside Revit

As an experiment, I built a three-stage pipeline that treats Revit as the documentation workhorse and lets AI handle the design thinking. The test case was a parking lot layout. Nothing exciting, but a good test case. The workflow is to extract the boundary from Revit, generate a configuration with Claude, iterate in a lightweight browser viewer, and push the result back into the model. How did it turn out? Read on to find out!

Click here to read the full article at ArchSmarter.

#2: Fixing a Revit Problem with Help from Claude

Thousands of Revit families lost their Classification Title during a 2026 upgrade, and this author turned to Claude to fix it. The post is honest about what worked and what did not, and it walks through a real problem-solving workflow rather than a polished demo. The kind of post that makes you want to go try something.

Click here to read the full article at Design Tech Field Guide.

#3: What It Actually Takes to Build a Digital Practice

Melvin Williams from HKS argues that the real barriers to digital transformation in architecture are leadership and culture, not software. He draws on years as a consultant, watching firms that were fluent in project delivery but could not change how they operated. If you are a technologist trying to get traction inside your firm, this one will resonate.

Click here to read the full article at Practice of Architecture.

#4: 5 Practical Applications for IFC (Part 2)

IFC gets a lot of attention in design coordination, but this post focuses on what happens after design: construction monitoring, asset management, compliance, and long-term operations. A useful read if you have been curious about where open data standards actually show up in practice rather than just in theory.

Click here to read the full article at BIM Corner.

#5: Top AEC Events to Attend in Q2 2026

A region-by-region guide to the conferences worth tracking this quarter, from BIM World Paris and Autodesk DevCon Europe to Digital Construction Week. Good for planning ahead if you are still deciding where to put your conference time and budget before summer.

Click here to read the full article at e-verse.

That's all from me. I hope you're having a great week. 

Michael