{"id":128517,"date":"2023-06-20T12:50:56","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T11:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=128517"},"modified":"2024-06-28T11:17:01","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T10:17:01","slug":"trimbles-stabicad-help-produce-mep-designs-x2-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/digital-construction-news\/construction-technology-news\/trimbles-stabicad-help-produce-mep-designs-x2-faster\/128517\/","title":{"rendered":"Trimble\u2019s Stabicad can help produce MEP designs up to x2 faster"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sam Williams, CAD\/BIM Manager at Crookes Walker Consulting was looking for new ways to make life easier for the MEP design and engineering teams. In particular, looking to streamline workflows, minimise rework, and save the teams he supports time<\/h2>\n

To meet those objectives, he focused on establishing standardised processes for MEP design across Crookes Walker\u2019s three UK offices. The challenge was that each engineering team used a different approach to projects, leading to inconsistent results, repetitive steps, and a lot of extra time to complete a model for the client.<\/p>\n

Sam explains, \u201cEngineers would create an MEP design in Revit, run calculations in a spreadsheet, and pass everything along to the CAD team. Everyone had their own idea of how to do things, so it was a constant flow back and forth to get a common result we could present to the client.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crookes Walker needed more consistency across the design and engineering process, which was a major driver for evaluating Stabicad.<\/p>\n

Stabicad brings standardisation and time-saving<\/h3>\n

Having researched the MEP design and BIM software marketplace, Sam knew about Stabicad and requested a demonstration for his team. \u201cWe saw right away how Stabicad could standardise our process<\/a>, so designers and engineers are working in the same format. The demo showed how tasks that took us hours could be completed in minutes. Between standardisation and the time savings, we decided to adopt Stabicad was a no-brainer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boosts productivity and financial return<\/h3>\n

With Stabicad’s adoption ramping up, Crookes Walker is already seeing the software prove its value. For example, Sam points out that when it comes to certain tasks, such as creating plans and sheets, Stabicad will create them in bulk with the correct view templates automatically applied. As a result, Stabicad has cut the time to complete such tasks by 25\u201350%.<\/p>\n

\u201cStabicad is helping us get more work out of a day, and that quickly has a financial impact. By getting more jobs completed faster and more efficiently, our bottom line goes up, and we start to see a return on investment very quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n

The quality of work life for Crookes Walker engineers has also improved. Instead of searching manufacturer websites and third-party databases for relevant MEP content, rich MEP content for Revit families and manufacturers\u2019 products is available directly in Stabicad. Moreover, engineers have a consistent, reliable tool within the 3D model to produce mechanical calculations that conform to local norms. For example, they can run a calculation over an entire system (ventilation, pipework, etc.) from within the model, assess the results, make changes, and recalculate with a single click. Crunching numbers on spreadsheets is now a thing of the past.<\/p>\n

Results in a nutshell<\/h3>\n