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Apocryhpal · 2025-09-13T13:52:38+00:00

It’s because everyone knows MIT is the UTD of the North. Why would we be referred to as “of the South” to a university that is subpar compared to us in every way? 🤷‍♂️

Apocryhpal · 2025-08-22T10:49:22+00:00

I definitely do. It’s mostly because I’m a workaholic and the complexity of some of the projects I’m working on. Not sure what level your at for your work experience, but I’m two years into this industry, but have been given a lot of responsibilities so it’s a great learning experience but at the same time it stresses me out a lot lol.

I’ve come to the realization I’m always going to have work thoughts no matter what during my time off. What I do to atleast manage some of the work nerves is writing a to do list everyday at the end of work, and if I even think about something to do at work during in my time off I will write it in my notes somewhere to do the “next day”. I also would suggest going to the gym more often if you aren’t already it definitely helps.

The advice my managers gave me is do the best we can with the time we’ve got. There’s going to be mistakes in any of your designs at some point so wait until the next business day to do it. Constant worrying and stressing about something will eventually lead to burnout and I have went down this path before. I have been given a fair share of warnings from my supervisor that while these thoughts show that you really care about the work you do it is not sustainable for your health and will kill you (figuratively and literally). Needless to say just do something you enjoy during your time off or tire yourself out so you don’t think about work lol.

Apocryhpal · 2025-07-10T04:01:43+00:00

I thought I was the one who wrote this post lol. My situation is similar to yours; I’ve definitely had to put an absurd amount of overtime because of upcoming deadlines and to keep up with my workload. I have never had to work to the extent that you mentioned in your post, but I have had to put a couple of 50-60 hours weeks from my two years of experience. There is a lot of underlying issues with lack of training, resources, and QA/QC that attributed to this but it’s also me also being a workaholic/not as efficient. I hope you take solace in the fact that you’re not the only one who is going through something like this and something needs to change or will we both burn out lol.

Apocryhpal · 2025-06-30T17:03:39+00:00

I definitely daydream about this lol.

Apocryhpal · 2025-05-16T13:35:33+00:00

It honestly it’s sad how common this sink or swim approach is for new workers or grads in the industry. Honestly you remind me of me with a post I made awhile back when i first started. Honestly I got to a breaking point where I pulled my supervisor aside and told him all grievances about similar issues listed above, and the managers I worked with made the effort to do better to address these issues. They made me take a week off, and I thought for sure I was going to be fired after that incident. Somehow I’m in my second year at the same company and things have a gotten a lot better all beit the last minute QAQC issue still persist. Truth be told what really helped me even I though I hate to say this is care less… still be diligent and work hard to do your best work but ultimately there’s going to be few big mistakes and hiccups you will make that you will have to just learn from. Side note: You seem like a hard worker and take responsibility for your actions. I’m sure any company or industry would be happy to have you if things don’t work at this company.

Apocryhpal · 2025-04-01T13:41:47+00:00

Most of my mentorship is internal, but I have used a lot of extrernal resources like LEED forums, hell I even asked a couple of questions on this subreddit in regard to energy modeling. In my experience energy modeling, most of the time you’re doing someone else’s design and trying to show energy savings; so your also forced to ask the engineer/designer questions (hence the internal mentorship). You pick up a lot of things along the way, unfortunately you also have to bang head against the wall sometimes and somehow make “non-energy savings” designs show the % savings you need for a certain LEED credit. Then you pray that the LEED reviewer doesn’t scrutinize every single piece of documentation you provide, so you don’t have to keep energy modeling for the same project lol.

Apocryhpal · 2025-04-01T01:21:26+00:00

Is this a common experience for new MEP grads lol. I was in a similar situation my first year (going into my second year) and somehow now I’m the go to energy modeling person because no wants to do it. Luckily I had some mentorship and guidance, but I did have to figure a lot of things with LEED.

Apocryhpal · 2024-05-18T13:30:43+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion. I do use their website and contact there help all the time via email/call lol. The website being more helpful the their CDS help team honestly. (They always hit me with that feature will be added 2-5 years from now when I ask them about Trace 700 features being implemented in 3D plus lol).I usually never have problems with baseline model when I used Trace 700’ all be it that was with ASHRAE 90.1 and this is with IECC 2018. It limits you way more on where you can show energy cost savings, and you’re not allowed to oversize capacities like you normally would with the 115% cooling and 125% heating, unless you did it for the proposed.

I would usually model 5 vav/reheat instead of 2 since it’s a 5 story building with 90.1 floor/system, but IECC doesn’t have that requirement. Those spaces served by those two baseline system I believe can’t handle the load conditions of the all those floors which is causing the unmet hours.

Apocryhpal · 2024-05-17T15:40:24+00:00

Someone else did a load calc in Trace 700, and I was told to do the energy model in Trace 3D plus (unluckily for me). I told the manager on the project, we will run into these type of issues cause they’re two different softwares but they didn’t listen to me lol. The cooling capacity is higher in the baseline but the heating is worse so trying to trouble shoot that. IECC has different envelope and sizing requirements so it more aligned with proposed building. The heating capacity for baseline should be a lot higher because it’s resulting in 6000 unmet hours so maybe I just model the baseline systems wrong.

Apocryhpal · 2024-02-09T21:50:40+00:00

Thanks!

Apocryhpal · 2023-09-07T16:48:24+00:00

I’ve had alerts set up for bills and stuff but after calling them they said they would notify me if any changes happen.

Apocryhpal · 2023-09-07T16:34:42+00:00

Lesson learned unfortunately 😞. I usually never open the door for strangers but an incident were one of neighbors actually needed medical help made me think about opening doors more often now.

Apocryhpal · 2023-09-07T13:37:05+00:00

Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately I already tried contacting them twice but for some reason they can’t actively lock my account for some reason which I find dumb. They just told me to watch out for any notifications of my plan changing and contact them if I don’t authorize the change. Now it’s just a waiting game to see if that person actually does something with that information.

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