We recently received some images from Mark Mergenschroer of TME Inc, one of our customers. TME, a full-service mechanical, electrical, structural and energy engineering company, have fully embraced BIM and are currently using Revit families in all their projects.
We first created Revit content for TME back in 2007. Below you can see a recent sample of our work in an MEP project involving the renovation of the Central Energy Plant at The Medical Center — part of the Columbus Regional Healthcare System:
The Revit family shown is the York Model CYK Compound Centrifugal Liquid Chiller. As with all of our models, the York CYK includes all relevant metadata, allowing users to take full advantage of Revit’s powerful testing and calculation capabilities.
We hope you agree that it looks the part too!
Once installed, this will be the third York Heat Pump Chiller in the United States, with TME responsible for designing two of the three systems.
TME began their Revit MEP implementation in the spring of 2007 and have quickly seen significant benefits, including improved coordination with fewer errors, increased speed of delivery, decreased costs with fewer change orders, greater productivity, and higher quality work. They currently have two people dedicated solely to Revit MEP – BIM Manager, Tim Nix and BIM Development Coordinator, Mark Mergenschroer – with a further 53 trained designers using the program. They have issued 16 projects for construction and presently have a further 22 in various stages of development. As a leader in the consulting engineering industry, TME see BIM as a key component for fulfilling their mission of client advocacy by finding improved solutions to the challenges of today’s building industry.
Many thanks to Mark for these images — we look forward to seeing more of them.
