MEP engineer
Electrical, HVAC, plumbing and fire, from coordination to commissioning.
- 1🧊Clashes on the model
- 2🧪Pressure and commissioning tests
- 3🚚Equipment on its way
- 4📘The O&M file
- 08:00
Checks duct-to-beam clashes on the model
- 11:00
Receives the HVAC units and checks them against the approval
- 14:00
Logs the pipe pressure test on the floor
- 16:00
Answers the architect's RFI with a site photo
The MEP engineer owns everything inside the walls and ceilings: cables, pipes, air ducts and sprinklers. They make sure none of it clashes with the structure, receive equipment from suppliers, and run pressure and commissioning tests before handover.
Their work crosses every other discipline, so a coordination mistake means breaking and reinstalling in ceilings and shafts. In the end they answer for the building actually working: power, cooling, water and fire safety.
In EDC they see clashes between systems on the model before installing, and record every test and its result on the element itself. Equipment approvals and delivery dates are in front of them, and the operation and maintenance file comes out ready at the end.
Each piece of equipment has a card on the model with its approval, supplier, test and warranty, and a clash goes to the designer as a BCF issue at its exact spot. When the project ends, all of this passes to the facility manager ready to use.
- ✓Find MEP clashes on the model before installing
- ✓Log pressure and commissioning tests on each element
- ✓Track equipment approvals and deliveries
- ★Less rework in ceilings and shafts
- ★Every test recorded and easy to find
- ★A ready O&M file at handover