William Doyle MRICS's videos and podcasts

ChatGPT will happily quote NEC clauses to you. Upload your own licensed copy to an AI tool, and NE...

Are the days of paying expensive "𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘮𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴" £700+ per day to trawl through data well and t...

Gather is hosting NEC4: Managing Effectively - Top Tips. Make sure to attend it on October 5. Comme...

OpenAI just put a $500 price tag on its new ChatGPT function. Should QSs be worried? On Tuesday it ...

Do you spend every Monday chasing delivery notes from different construction sites? There is now a ...

Great few days in Berlin at InnoTrans 2026 with Tom Wilson EngTech and Gather. Good to catch up wit...

𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗲𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗿𝘂𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Railway project, NEC4 Option C. Criti...

A new AI just launched that refuses to write a single word. Meet Jev, from a new lab called TypeSa...

Everyone selling "AI takeoff" seems to quote the same two numbers... - Ninety eight per cent accur...

Last week we crossed 3000 signups to our free QS tools website 🎉 It's a free platform full of too...

𝗪𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁? Here's how to do it in nine simple steps:  1. Memory: w...

A QS asked me a question yesterday that exposed a flaw in every AI product in construction, includin...

Even a dedicated parking spot can't convince your QS to attend site...

Quantity surveyors are the reason we have bad site records, not site managers. Everyone blames the ...

Can you replace an entire construction project team with Grok Bot? That's the question this week's ...

Why do we record weather each day on a construction site report? Is it simply indicative conditions...

𝗜𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝗶𝘁 𝗼𝗱𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀? Not software engineers. Not the people who po...

Nobody builds the as-built programme while the job is running. They build it two years later, from ...

Thousands of construction photos scattered across your camera roll, downloads folder, and SharePoint...

A £100 million turnover business. And the MD has to personally sign off a Copilot licence. That is ...

Cash is king in construction... so why do so many Quantity Surveyors actively avoid updating their c...

OpenAI just gave ChatGPT a job. Not a better answer. An actual job that you would expect a human to...

I think I've found the most pointless process in construction. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨. "Appro...

Are you a Quantity Surveyor who finds cost to complete stressful? Fictional? A pointless exercise yo...

Your camera roll is full of site photos named IMG_4821.jpg. No date. No context. No chance of findin...