Andrew Blair / Practical AI for professional firms

Portfolio

Selected work

Landscape and infrastructure in Norway, residential architecture in South Africa, and the digital tools I've built along the way. Renders and AI visuals are labelled as such.

Norway · infrastructure and landscape

Tegn_3 and Sweco, Oslo, 2011–2012.

Sweco · 2012

E6 Arnkvern–Moelv

25 km road widening from two to four lanes. Landscape and planting plans.

Tegn_3 and Sweco · 2011–2012

Råde station

Construction plans for platforms, crossings and parking, with detail design, tree and paving plans.

Sweco · 2012

Vestfoldbanen parcel 12.2

Construction plans and documentation for the new railway line.

Tegn_3 · 2011–2012

E6 Bjørum

Terrain modelling and grading in Civil 3D, with 3D visualisations and vegetation plans.

Tegn_3 · 2011–2012

Primary school site

Site analysis, measurement and site plan, including schoolyard design.

Tegn_3 · 2011–2012

Farriseidet railway

Landscape and terrain work on railway infrastructure.

Architecture · own practice

AB Architecture and AB+HvD, Knysna and Cape Town.

Render of a courtyard house with dark roofsPlettenberg Bay · 2023 · Render

Courtyard house

New house arranged around a paved courtyard, with garages and entrance off the driveway. The AI visual on the home page is from this project.

Render of a rectangular pool with stone paving and umbrellasKnysna · 2026 · Render

Pool and garden, Belvidere

Pool, paving and garden, with council forms filled from the project file.

Render of a community building with a large sloping roofGeorge · 2021 · Feasibility render

Community centre feasibility

Zoning research and concept design for an education and community centre.

Other current work: an off-grid house in Calitzdorp, heritage-area alterations in St James, and an extension in Pinelands.

Digital tools

Software I've designed and built with AI.

Zonely map showing property boundaries and erf numbers over satellite imageryLive

Zonely

Zoning answers for Cape Town properties in plain English, with paid reports.

In daily use

Voice-run practice office

Project records, proposals, forms, invoices and books. See the case studies.

First live project

Scan to drawings

Handheld LiDAR scans turned into draft Revit models and as-built drawings for checking. See the workflow and its limits.

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