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Design structures or facilities

Work activity · O*NET

Design structures or facilities is an intermediate work activity in the O*NET database — a concrete task that recurs across many occupations , grouped under Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment. 22 occupations report doing it as part of their work.

What it involves

The most common detailed activities O*NET records under this category, ranked by how many occupation tasks map to each.

  • Design structures or facilities
  • Incorporate green features into the design of structures or facilities
  • Design civil structures or systems
  • Plan facility layouts or designs
  • Design furniture

How AI is applied to this activity

Microsoft's "Working with AI" study mapped real Bing Copilot conversations to O*NET work activities. The figures below are their measurements for this activity — they describe how AI is used today in one assistant's data, not a forecast that the activity will be automated.

AI completes it successfully 60.9% When Copilot attempts this activity, how often it finishes the task
Scope AI handles 15.2% How much of the activity AI carries within a conversation
Positive user feedback 53.5% Share of interactions users rated positively
How often AI is applied here 41st pct Percentile across all measured activities by how often AI performs them

Source: Microsoft "Working with AI" (working-with-ai). A high completion rate means AI can assist the activity in isolation — it does not mean an occupation that performs it is being automated, since every job blends many activities.

Detailed work activities

The more granular units of work O*NET groups under this activity, ordered by how many occupations perform them.

Occupations that perform this activity

Ranked by how many of the occupation's tasks map to this activity.

Occupation Tasks
Water/Wastewater Engineers 6
Architects, Except Landscape and Naval 5
Interior Designers 3
Landscape Architects 3
Transportation Engineers 2
Agricultural Engineers 1
Cabinetmakers and Bench Carpenters 1
Civil Engineers 1
Clinical Research Coordinators 1
Electrical Engineers 1
Facilities Managers 1
First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers 1
Furniture Finishers 1
General and Operations Managers 1
Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians 1
Logistics Engineers 1
Marine Engineers and Naval Architects 1
Mechanical Engineers 1
Mining and Geological Engineers, Including Mining Safety Engineers 1
Transportation Planners 1
Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers 1
Urban and Regional Planners 1
Exposure quadrant: AI task-overlap percentile vs Median pay AI task-overlap (horizontal) versus median pay (vertical), each as a percentile across all scored occupations, for 22 occupations in occupations that perform Design structures or facilities.. Overlap measures shared tasks with AI, not automation. Lower overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · lower pay Lower overlap · lower pay Furniture Finishers Cabinetmakers and Bench Carpenters Facilities Managers Electrical Engineers General and Operations Managers Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians Agricultural Engineers Clinical Research Coordinators Architects, Except Landscape and Naval Landscape Architects Civil Engineers AI task-overlap percentile → ↑ Median pay
Occupations that perform Design structures or facilities., by AI task-overlap and median pay

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

Cite this page
Plain

Singulariki. "Design structures or facilities." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/activities/design-structures-or-facilities

APA

Singulariki. (2026). Design structures or facilities. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/activities/design-structures-or-facilities

BibTeX 
@misc{singulariki-design-structures-or-facilities,
  title  = {Design structures or facilities},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/activities/design-structures-or-facilities}
}

Citations name the underlying public dataset releases — they reflect what this page is built from, not just the URL.