Do I need prior experience with Power Query or AI tools?

No. The workshop introduces these tools from the ground up, while basic familiarity with Revit is recommended.

Will I work on practical BIM workflows?

Yes. You'll complete hands-on exercises covering data cleaning, QA/QC automation, specification management, and dashboard creation.

Is coding required for this workshop?

No programming experience is required. AI assists with generating the code, and you'll follow a guided, step-by-step workflow.

Will we build a working dashboard during the workshop?

Yes. You'll create a BIM health score dashboard and connect it to Revit via a simple plugin.

What will I be able to apply after the workshop?

You'll be able to automate BIM data cleaning, QA/QC checks, dashboard generation, and Revit plugin workflows for your own projects.

Upcoming3 days left to enrollSep 5 & 6, 2026Saturday · Sunday13:00 – 17:008 HoursBeginner

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BIM Masterclass: Data Automation in Revit & Claude

BIM Masterclass: Data Automation in Revit & Claude is a 2-day workshop on PAACADEMY led by Charles Vidal, Senior Architect and BIM Lead at Bjarke Ingels Group. Participants use Power Query, Autodesk Revit, pyRevit, and Claude AI to build automated BIM data workflows including specification-to-keynote generation, Revit quantity merging, model QA/QC validation, space program compliance checking, and a self-contained HTML health-score dashboard. No coding experience is required.

This course includes

Live workshop · 8 Hours
Lifetime session recordings
Certificate of completion
4 design tools
Included with Full Access
Sep 5 & 6, 2026

Saturday · Sunday

13:00 – 17:00

Sep 5 & 6, 2026

8 Hours

Architectural projects run on information, room schedules, specifications, cost data, design briefs, and the models themselves, but it usually sits in disconnected files and gets checked by hand. This workshop closes that gap: using Revit and Power Query, you will pull project data together and clean it into a repeatable, validated dataset, then see how Claude AI helps turn it into a clear, shareable health-score dashboard and a simple Revit plugin that ties the two together.

Power Query is a free, no-code tool for cleaning and merging data; once you build a workflow, it refreshes on the next project with a single click. In the demonstrations, you will see how Claude AI takes that clean data and produces the code behind the dashboard and the plugin, the kind of result that would normally need a developer, from a guided written prompt. Combined with the structured data already available in a Revit model, this lets design teams automate work usually done by hand while improving data quality and cutting the time spent on repetitive tasks.

Clean and merge BIM data using Power Query
Generate Revit keynotes from structured specification data
Combine Revit quantities with external project datasets
Build automated rules for BIM model QA/QC checks
Compare model data with project briefs for compliance tracking
Create a BIM health-score dashboard as a single HTML file
Use Claude to generate BIM automation scripts and dashboards
Build a simple Revit plugin with pyRevit and AI assistance

The focus is the everyday information problems of architectural and BIM projects, building typologies such as offices, healthcare, and mixed-use, where room programs, specifications, and model quality all matter. The whole workshop follows one sample project that you progressively enrich, so every step builds toward a single finished result rather than disconnected exercises.

The workshop is hands-on: most of the time is spent building, not watching. We start by looking at a striking finished dashboard, the target, then spend the two days building the real, working version behind it. To keep everyone in step, each stage has a checkpoint file you can load to rejoin if a step breaks.

You work hands-on throughout: everyone cleans and merges data in Power Query and sets up their own pyRevit plugin. For the AI steps, the exact prompt used in Claude will be provided, and the reply it produced will be applied to the same prompt, with the result included together so the whole group stays in sync.

Checkpoint files, including the finished dashboard, mean no one is ever blocked, and anyone with a Claude account can run the prompts live as an extra.

Participants work individually, and the closing session is a shared discussion on applying the workflows to real projects.

Program

Day 1: Building and Structuring BIM Data

Why project data matters and overview of the final health-score dashboard
Power Query fundamentals: importing, cleaning, merging, appending, and building a refreshable workflow
Workflow 1: Specification Database → Revit Keynotes
Clean and structure specification data in Power Query and export a Revit-ready keynote file
Workflow 2: Merging Revit Quantities with External Data
Combine Revit outputs with external datasets into a single validated dataset using repeatable Power Query steps

Day 2: Automation, Validation & Dashboard Integration

Set up pyRevit and build a simple Revit plugin (hands-on)
Create a basic add-in button that links Revit to an external dashboard, with Claude-assisted coding
Model checking / QA-QC rules
Automate checks for missing fire ratings, marks, departments, and classification data
Space program validation
Compare model data against the project brief and measure area compliance
BIM Health Scorecard (AI-assisted workflow)
Follow a guided Claude prompt to generate a self-contained HTML dashboard from validated data
System integration
Connect the Revit plugin to the dashboard for one-click access from the model
Optional: live AI workflow
If available, participants can run Claude prompts themselves instead of following pre-generated outputs
Wrap-up
Full pipeline recap: from Revit and Power Query to AI-generated dashboard and plugin integration, and real-world applications

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Charles Vidal is a Senior Architect and BIM Lead at BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group), where he contributes to both project delivery and digital practice across international projects. Alongside his hands-on involvement in design and project coordination, he develops BIM standards, digital workflows, and information management strategies that support teams throughout the project lifecycle. His work focuses on bridging architecture, technology, and project delivery to create practical solutions that improve collaboration, data quality, and decision-making across complex projects.

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