MEP engineers face a constant challenge in coordinating, fabricating and installing MEP components and layout while staying on schedules and cost budgets. Ultimately, it is usually the quality the MEP coordination drawings that gets affected or costs go overhead. And MEP Contractors and engineers encounter umpteen roadblocks while trying to fix the interferences to coordinate the layout properly.
The inherent complexity of MEP teams
Such challenges are common for MEP teams because of the long hierarchy and lateral spread of the MEP teams on board. As compared to structural and architectural teams, an MEP project team structure has multiple stakeholders including MEP contractors, MEP consultants, sub-contractors (from mechanical, electrical and plumbing), fabricators, site engineers, and maintenance specialists. And each of them has their own specific set of requirements which have to be addressed in the facility design.
Usually, the contractor takes…