Disciplines
Every service, in the same model.
engiCAD covers the building services a consultancy designs day to day. Each has its own tools and calculations, and all of them share one model — so they coordinate rather than collide.
The services
Pick a discipline.
Ventilation & HVAC
Ductwork sized as you draw, terminals and plant, fire dampers, and index-run pressure analysis.
Ventilation design →Air conditioning & VRF
Indoor and outdoor unit pairing, copper line sizing, piping limits and refrigerant charge with F-Gas figures.
VRF design →Plumbing & hot water
Loading units under four demand codes, pipe sizing, and hot-water return loops solved to a pump duty.
Plumbing design →Drainage
Discharge units accumulated branch by branch to BS EN 12056-2, stack assignment and gradients.
Drainage design →Electrical, data & ELV
Circuits and boards, cable sizing with correction factors, structured cabling, lighting and CCTV.
Electrical design →Controls & containment
BMS control panels and device links, with user-defined containment types routed and counted like any other service.
What they share
Shared data, not shared linework.
Putting every service in one CAD file only puts the lines side by side. In engiCAD the services share what the model knows about the building, so what one discipline enters, the others can use.
- Levels and spaces — every service sits on the same levels and reads the same spaces, so a room's occupancy and a floor's ceiling void mean the same thing to every discipline.
- Disciplines inform each other — a fire partition drawn in the building creates its own dampers wherever ductwork crosses it.
- Systems with real topology — each service is a connected network the solver traces end to end.
- One set of outputs — schedules, bills of quantities and drawings come from the same model for every discipline.
- Coordinated in 3D — every service appears in the same 3D model, so a clash of levels shows up at your desk rather than on site.
Related
Where to look next.
See it on your own project.
engiCAD is in active development and we are onboarding a small number of practices. Tell us what you work on and we will arrange a walkthrough against a drawing you recognise.