MEP
15 BIM Tips: Avoiding Model Corruption & Optimizing File Sizes
Even some of the most experienced Revit users make mistakes in modeling and model management that can lead to detrimental and sometimes even disastrous results. In the November Applied Software, ...
System Requirements for Autodesk Revit 2023
Autodesk updated its system requirements and recommendations for Revit 2023 in October 2022. Following is a listing of that information. Revit® 2023Minimum: Entry Level Configuration Operating System 64-bit Microsoft® Windows® ...
Two Big Challenges MEP Contractors Face
Despite the latest trends in construction technology designed to make companies function better, there are still things that can work against an MEP contractor being profitable. Every company will eventually ...
3 Ways to Avoid Waste in Your MEP Fabrication
Waste costs your company profits, and sometimes it’s hard to pinpoint where that waste is happening. It’s fairly easy to see when materials are being wasted. But it takes closer ...
3 Roles of BIM in Prefabrication
A few years ago, Autodesk highlighted a New England-based mechanical construction company that is recognized as a leader in quality prefabrication and modular construction technology. The company continues to grow by ...
BIM and Digital Measurement for MEP
AEC professionals and building owners have already shown their confidence in building information modeling (BIM) by increasingly relying on BIM processes and software tools like Revit and Navisworks, among others. ...
How to Make MEP Fabrication Faster and Easier
For mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) fabricators, the building information modeling (BIM) process appears to be here to stay. After over two decades of Autodesk Revit evolution, an increasing number ...
Combining BIM and BEM in Design
Worldwide, companies are using building information modeling (BIM) processes to improve and increase productivity in designing and constructing building projects. As additional benefits, cost reductions are being realized, and errors ...
Why Prefab is Important to Your Business
Once you understand industrialized construction (IC), using manufacturing techniques for the built environment sounds like a common sense move for companies. It makes more sense (and it’s much less expensive) ...
How to save 50% of your time producing quantity takeoffs
There’s a lot of buzz around new technology in the construction industry. But for successful companies, it’s not all about the latest technology. It’s about how to use that technology ...
9 Steps to Creating Fabrication Content
The Autodesk Fabrication family of tools includes three products that help users extend their BIM workflows to estimate, detail and fabricate better mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) systems. They are ...
Progress Tracking with Autodesk Build
Progress Tracking is an Autodesk product currently in beta form that will soon be included in Autodesk Build for every subscriber. In a recent Applied Software webinar, “Project Process Tracking: ...
