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Welcome to the new BIM Insights Sessions in 2018!

Hope you had some great days off and wishing you all the best for 2018.

What will be new in 2018 is the focus on workflows of MEP engineers. We want to involve engineers more in our webinars and address typical workflows recognizable by specialists in the field. Specialists like you!

The webinar of Thursday Jan 18th (starting at 3 pm CET) will focus on how to place manufacturer specific and generic high-quality content related to valves and pipes in Revit. And to demonstrate how MEPcontent apps can be of help in doing just that.

There will be plenty of time (within the 30 min webinar) to ask anything you want about this workflow and our webinar hosts will gladly provide you with answers.

Do you have a specific workflow you want to see explained during the webinar? Let us know (marketing@mepcontent.com) and we will try to reach out to you as soon as we can.

Hope to see you (again) at the webinar on January 18th.

BIM files for the renewed Hager Vision distribution board have been published on MEPcontent. Composite dividers up to 40A offer a completely assembled housing construction solution. Easy for the installer, reliability for the resident.

The vision group divider has been a familiar face in many Dutch homes for more than 20 years.

In 2017, Vision was renewed at more than 15 points, following an extensive development process in which Dutch installers participated.
The result is a group distributor that is packed with cleverness and where ease of assembly is the main starting point. The pipe entry piece offers extra space, the cable routing is unobstructed and the QuickConnect spring clamping technology makes the fastest safe connection.

Download the Revit family, CAD file and IFC file now on MEPcontent.

Spelsberg has been a regular content manufacturer at MEPcontent.com for a number of years. During the BIM LIVE Experience in Boxtel, Erwin Van Schooten, Managing Director at Spelsberg, explained how the role of the manufacturer has become increasingly important in the BIM process.

Spelsberg is a German manufacturer of plastic enclosures for the electro technical market and focused originally on German speaking countries. This is still an important market today, but exports now also play an important role.

Past and present

Erwin van Schooten, Managing Director at Spelsberg, explains how the role of the manufacturer has changed: "In the past, when the world was not yet digitalized, a MEP engineer had limited choice in different brands. He went to his wholesaler to buy his products. The wholesaler could only sell a limited number of brands. When an engineer had selected a wholesaler, this usually also determined his preference in brand and product.

Nowadays things are different, the MEP engineer is offered a lot of products from different brands and therefore a wide range of choice. However, he no longer has time to study all the product details of so many different brands; he simply wants to have a good product for the requested application. This creates a conflict: how does the engineer know which product is most suitable? Especially because he has no time to personally address, for example, 10 different suppliers of a type of product.

The solution to this problem lies in good communication of information. A representative still has a role to play in this, but the digital highway also offers many opportunities to engineers for making a choice. The more details of a product are available, the better the selection will be. BIM plays an important role in this and this role will only increase in the future.”

Data transfer

“When we look at where the manufacturer stands in the BIM process, there are still major steps to be taken," said Erwin Van Schooten, Managing Director at Spelsberg. “But how should we move forward? How do we come a step closer to the ultimate transfer of information?”

This is where MEPcontent comes in: the largest BIM library for MEP engineers, which offers up-to-date BIM content and productivity-enhancing Revit applications for the installation industry. On this platform, the manufacturer's products come together with the requirements of the engineer. Spelsberg is one of the hundreds of manufacturers that place their content on MEPcontent.com.

Reduce failure costs

MEPcontent demands a lot from the manufacturers. All product specifications must be communicated so that they can be displayed on MEPcontent.com. Why does Spelsberg go through so much effort to get all product specifications right on MEP content and what does Spelsberg want to achieve with it? Erwin explains: "The purchase of a product is only part of the total cost of ownership. Spelsberg wants to deliver a product at the end of the cycle that fully meets the wishes of the user and a product that is fully appreciated by the MEP engineer.

Spelsberg is convinced that the quality of the product and the installation improves when there is an insight into the costs of the total cycle, for example with regard to ease of installation and service costs. The purchase price of a product can be higher, but due to a reduction in costs, the total installation price at the end of the cycle can be cheaper. Thanks to all the displayed up-to-date product specifications on MEPcontent you can really reduce your failure costs!”

Supply of information

MEPcontent assists Spelsberg in disseminating all the information they provide to a product. But it is important that the manufacturer continues to supply the information. Spelsberg is ahead of other manufacturers in this process. There is a lot of demand for actual content, but this is not yet matched by the amount of content supplied by manufacturers. In the future, MEPcontent wants to create an even better collaboration between the manufacturer and the MEP engineer, because there will be constant demand for new and improved content.

Would you like to know what MEPcontent can mean for you as a supplier/manufacturer? Read more on mepcontent.com.

Heat pumps are indispensable when it comes to sustainable heating (and cooling) of buildings. Tomorrow, the Dutch Heat Pump Congress 2017 will take place. Here you can hear everything about heat pump concepts in homes. A good time to take a look at the growing range of heat pumps from Vaillant, Mitsubishi Electric, Alpha Innotec, Remeha and Fujitsu on MEPcontent!

New content for heat pumps from Dimplex is now available on MEPcontent.

The System M Compact Outdoor and the System M Compact Indoor are both available for download in RFA, DWG and IFC files, so they can be added in both AutoCAD and Revit projects. The System M Compact Outdoor is available in 4 designs. Just select the design that best fits your garden or the outside of your home. A comfortable and sustainable heating solution!

We'd like to introduce a new manufacturer on the MEPcontent portal: Elco. Elco is an established manufacturer offering innovations in burner, condensing boiler and solar technology.

A Revit family and DWG file for the Trigon XL boiler is made available. You can download the file directly into your Revit or AutoCAD project.

Do you want to know what the latest trends and developments are in the MEP industry?

Listen to the webinar on November 30th 2pm CET and discover what developments and trends will impact your job in the upcoming years.

The webinar is in English.

Click here to sign up for this free webinar

After a very successful premiere last year, BIM World MUNICH, the leading event for Building Information Modeling in the German-speaking DACH region, is returning in 2017. Held on November 28th and 29th in the ICM (Internationales Congress Centrum München), the exhibition is expected to attract more than 3000 visitors from 22 countries. Together with a two-days international conference and open forum for all visitors, over 100 exhibitors attending Germany’s biggest BIM fair will present the newest trends concerning the digitalization of the building industry.

Solutions for MEP engineers
Here you can also discover our innovative BIM solutions for the MEP industry: with Stabicad for Revit, MEPcontent and Revit Apps, engineers work quickly and easily in the BIM process. Meet our BIM experts at stand 74-76 and discover the right tools to support your complete BIM workflow: from design to detail with the right level of information for your construction partners. We look forward to meeting you!

A generic air terminal for bathrooms has been made available on MEPcontent.

The air terminal can be downloaded as RFA and DWG file to complete every AutoCAD and Revit project.

Revit and Excel. Two tools you probably use on a daily basis. But sometimes it is hard to make them work together, forcing you to manually enter data into Revit and Excel. But that is something of the past. Did you know you can combine Revit and Excel in a way you could not do before?

We launched a new Revit App to do just that. The Stabiplan Export and Import Excel App. Combine the functionalities of Revit and Excel with this powerful app. Download the Revit App to export data to an Excel file, make (bulk) changes and import data into your Revit project again, without any hassle. You can make a selection of data: select the whole project or just a selection of it, you decide.

You can also export your Schedules in the Revit look-and-feel to Excel. Easier to share with co-workers or your client. Select all elements and parameters from your Schedule to get the overview faster and adjust the values in your Schedule using the Import functionality.

Why would you as a busy MEP engineer, designer or modeler care? The App can save you a lot of time simply because you can update your model with Excel data in no-time. Or export data to Excel to share it with a project partner who might not have a Revit license.

Free trial
The Stabiplan Export and Import Excel App can be downloaded on store.mepcontent.com. Get access to this App which will save you a lot of time and help you in your project collaboration with partners outside your firm.

In the construction industry the role of digital 3D content is getting more and more important, as content is used at the start of almost every construction project. If the content used in a project is not correct, this will impact the quality, the calculations and the eventual realization of the project. To ensure engineers work with high quality project content, MEPcontent offers more than 500,000 3D objects in different file types.

What content types are there?
The objects on MEPcontent are offered in different file types, namely IFC, DWG, RFA and PLS. RFA files can be used in Revit, DWG in AutoCAD and IFC is a platform-independent file type, which can be used to exchange information between different parties working on different design platforms. The PLS is a file type which is particularly useful in BIM projects. PLS stands for Product Line Sheet and is actually an Excel sheet with data that can be used as a source for generating BIM content, for example for apps. The Product Line Sheet is filled with parametric information about the geometrical model. It’s lightweight, fast and therefore easy to use in BIM-projects, while still providing a realistic representation of the product with the right connectors and information that is valuable to MEP engineers.

Quality guaranteed with EMCS
Regardless of the file type, the quality of the content is guaranteed by the EMCS: the European MEP Content Standard. This ensures that the data attached to 3D-content is correct and in line with the engineers expectations and needs. The EMCS helps the engineer and the manufacturer to see how the content is being built, what kind of information is attached to it, and how it can be used in different kinds of projects. It ensures content is compact, small and easy to use which makes it faster to use in large projects. The EMCS is also matched to various BIM standards such as ETIM and VDI, to ensure content complies to leading European BIM standards.

Ready to order
In addition to enriching content with technical data, such as technical manuals, the content is also equipped with manufacturer-specific trade and product data. So besides all the technical parameters, also deeplink URLs to the manufacturer website are added, or GTIN numbers and in some cases even a connection to wholesaler databases. This way, MEP engineers can access details from their preferred supplier directly from the BIM model. This makes it easy to order products and get prices directly from the model, already in the design stage. This is the real added value of BIM, as engineers can access all the information they need directly from within the model, and information is used efficiently throughout the entire project.

Want to discover all content MEPcontent offers you? Browse our platform for content or downloads apps for MEP engineers from our store.

The SANHA Ref HP system is ready to use in the SANHA Product Line Placer for Piping. The app works as an add-in for Revit. With the in-app auto routing functionality, drawing piping systems from the SANHA Ref HP system is fast and easy: the right fittings are added to your system automatically.

SANHA Ref HP fittings are ideally suited for pipes in refrigeration systems with a maximum operating pressure of up to 130 bar.

Download the app for free from the MEPcontent store.

The Aqua Cella boilers are added to the MEPcontent platform.
The Aqua Cella is a prefabricated boiler that can store large amounts of hot water.
Download the RFA and DWG files now.