Can AI do piping design? What works and what doesn’t (2026)
A practical, dated look at which parts of piping design AI tools can handle today, which are early, and which aren’t addressed at all.
Author: Anton Dooley
Anton Dooley is a time-served piping designer on the board and in the model, and has spent more than 30 years in piping and plant design since. He moved from piping delivery into design leadership on pharmaceutical, life sciences and mission-critical projects. As Design Director, he built a multidisciplinary design team of around 50 people across piping, process, HVAC and BIM/VDC. Today he runs pipingdesigners.com, where he writes about the craft, the tools and where piping design is heading, from the point of view of someone who still checks the isos.