Revit MEP

[alehman]

My firm has been asked to provide a price for designing a small but complex facility. The client wants an alternate price for doing the complete A/E design in Revit. We have all architectual/engineering disciplines in house, but so far only our architects and structural engineers are experienced with Revit.

I don't see much mention of Revit in this forum. Is anyone using Revit MEP? Is it usable for a real projects at this point? What sort of learning curve should we expect?

Alan
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"It’s always fun to do the impossible." - Walt Disney

 

[cvanoverbeke]

We have used Revit MEP on one project. If the architect had of used Revit it would have made our job much easier. The heat loss module is buggy since I used it on a house and it crashed. Generally it works pretty good.

Regards,
cvanoverbeke

 

[alehman]

Thanks cvanoverbeke. Apparently the industry isn't rushing to adopt this technology.

Alan
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"It’s always fun to do the impossible." - Walt Disney

 

[stevenw]

Revit MEP is getting better but it is not up to speed.
We can still go faster in autocad.
You should go to a Revit MEP training class because you would never figure it out on your own.

 

[alehman]

I think we'll all probably be using BIM in some form on our projects in a few years. But.. there seems to be a fairly steep learning curve and labor-intensive content creation process. I don't see a lot of "canned" electrical content for Revit yet. We talked to a few of the major electrical manufacturers and received responses from 'We have no intention of doing that - our data is proprietary.' to 'We are working on it now.'

We do plan to hire a consultant to help us implement Revit.

Alan
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"It’s always fun to do the impossible." - Walt Disney

 

[TCARPENTER1]

I keep hearing Revit is the "wave of the future", and the way it looks, it always will be!