BIM tools such as Revit have had a massive impact on how mechanical and electrical design happens, but they haven’t really been around for that long.
The idea of BIM has been around since the 1970s, but it wasn’t until it became widely used within the construction industry that the software required to create the models envisioned decades earlier became available to the public.
Revit, on the other hand, was first created in 1997, but it wasn’t until it was bought by Autodesk in 2002 that it started to become what we know today.
In an industry where we still rely on Newtonian physics from centuries ago, that’s really the blink of an eye. So, it’s not surprising that many engineers, designers, and M&E firms are still trying to determine how to get the most out of these invaluable tools.
It’s all so new that even ISO 19650, the standard for digitisation of building information, was only released in 2018. We’re all charting new territory in many ways, but the tools themselves can often help establish the best possible systems, processes, and workflows. Here’s how M&E design software can drive design process standardisation in your company.