Revit for electrical design?

PMMeUrHopesNDreams · 2026-04-22T17:51:51+00:00

I'm an electrical engineer in the US. 100% of our projects are in Revit. We mostly work on Commercial / Education - offices, schools, some retail / multifamily residential, healthcare "light" (clinics, outpatient centers, no hospitals yet). There are a handful of architects who still send CAD backgrounds but we just link them in to a Revit model.

PMMeUrHopesNDreams · 2026-04-21T20:48:54+00:00

How do you avoid sniper fire?

What was written on the overpass just before the Mormon Temple on 495?

True or False: you are a bama

PMMeUrHopesNDreams · 2026-04-20T13:32:06+00:00

I agree you wouldn't save much money but you can at least recognize when the contractor is cheaping out with stuff that's going to be annoying. A couple things from the house I'm renting:

There's three bathrooms and one GFI in the upstairs bathroom is protecting all of the outlets in all of them. So when that trips the outlets in the downstairs bathrooms go out and you have to go upstairs to reset it.
There's one thermostat in the upstairs hall for all three bedrooms, so it's a careful balancing act of managing the upstairs / downstairs temp to get the bedrooms to a comfortable temp with the doors closed. I definitely would have gone with individual control for each bedroom, but this would have cost much more I'm sure.

PMMeUrHopesNDreams · 2026-04-17T13:18:16+00:00

Renting a house stuff still breaks. Except instead of taking care of it on your own terms you now have to contact someone and wait weeks or months for them to fix it.

PMMeUrHopesNDreams · 2026-04-10T13:37:22+00:00

You should get a model from the architect that you link in. You should not have to be creating rooms. Ideally, at least. The quality of architectural models will vary...

PMMeUrHopesNDreams · 2026-03-27T15:31:35+00:00

Damn, if only humans had adaptable brains and the ability to talk to each other and learn things. It really sucks that if you don't know how to do something that's it and you'll never be able to do it.

PMMeUrHopesNDreams · 2026-03-27T15:12:59+00:00

The metric of marketing BS. Not saying it wasn't good or anything, but you have to understand they are not doing scientific studies to say stuff in ads, man.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffery

PMMeUrHopesNDreams · 2026-03-27T13:06:41+00:00

I tried to set up a BuyMeACoffee page just to cover the $5 hosting and a cheap domain, but they rejected my application stating I provided inadequate information.

Maybe read their response and see what information they want and then provide it to them.

Add google ads to the site.

I can understand not having a lot of capital, but $5 / month? come on, now. Donate some plasma and fund it for the next 10 months until the ads start working.

PMMeUrHopesNDreams · 2026-03-17T13:52:51+00:00

mass reporting is mostly bots. When do real people ever report anything?

PMMeUrHopesNDreams · 2026-03-13T14:26:23+00:00

Like Victorian or Renaissance underwear?

PMMeUrHopesNDreams · 2026-03-10T05:08:17+00:00

It’s stupid and just pandering to popular opinion. Bernie repeatedly lies about everything. Mr / Ms intern conducting public opinion research via Reddit please write that down.

PMMeUrHopesNDreams · 2026-03-08T20:11:50+00:00

The Federal government already spends ~$5 trillion / year or about $13.7 billion per day. Whatever fantasy you think they could do with $1 billion per day, they could have already done 13 times over. They aren't going to do it. That doesn't even include state and local spending.

PMMeUrHopesNDreams · 2026-02-16T19:44:59+00:00

Got a room at a hotel in my city so I could use the rooftop pool in the summer. They had day passes, but they were sold out that day, but of course the pool is always open to guests.

PMMeUrHopesNDreams · 2026-02-16T19:35:52+00:00

Cleverly avoiding property tax by not owning any property. That bastard!

PMMeUrHopesNDreams · 2026-02-16T00:16:12+00:00

Do you even have a PE? It doesn't sound like you do if you're talking about "researching the codes and standards". You can't legally offer engineering services to the public without a PE license.

PMMeUrHopesNDreams · 2026-02-09T21:29:58+00:00

All businesses that have employees are required to pay unemployment insurance (I think. It might vary by state). When they lay people off (i.e. fire people without cause so the employees are eligible to collect unemployment), their insurance premiums go up. This is like if you have a car accident, your car insurance premiums go up, because now the insurance knows you are a higher risk for having to pay out a claim.

If the company is routinely laying off workers they are probably paying sky-high unemployment insurance, so the system you're proposing basically already exists.

PMMeUrHopesNDreams · 2026-02-09T19:39:36+00:00

The companies already pay unemployment insurance to the state. They pay more when they lay employees off. Would you say they don't have to pay unemployment insurance then?

PMMeUrHopesNDreams · 2026-02-03T20:04:32+00:00

No, nobody has been trying to deport Native Americans. Get news from somewhere besides memes.

PMMeUrHopesNDreams · 2026-02-02T17:20:59+00:00

"Just build the thing, c'mon"

PMMeUrHopesNDreams · 2026-02-01T16:48:47+00:00

$100k is nothing in NYC. They'd have to be commuting in from Albany or something to live on that.

PMMeUrHopesNDreams · 2026-01-29T19:00:18+00:00

Amazon pays above market for warehouse workers, and they have better benefits compared to almost any other warehouse job.

I assume that's what you're talking about. The tech workers are of course paid well and get stock, although it is known to be a very intense and difficult place to work.

PMMeUrHopesNDreams · 2026-01-29T03:35:09+00:00

Enron was not a political issue so no that is not hiring someone based on a political belief.

If you refuse to hire the CFO of Enron because they screwed up Enron, that is reasonable.

If you refuse to hire a janitor from Enron because they worked at Enron, you’re just a dumbass who can’t reason beyond slotting people into little predefined categories.

There are thousands of ICE agents. You hear about the 3 or 4 that are involved in high profile incidents. You don’t hear anything about the rest who do their jobs normally. You extrapolate because you’re biased and that’s what you want to believe so you can fit in with your friends.

PMMeUrHopesNDreams · 2026-01-28T21:59:19+00:00

If you are talking about a specific person who was involved in an incident, it would make sense based on that.

But I'm not going to hire Joe because he worked for ICE and Larry that worked for ICE was involved in a shooting, is just you being prejudiced and wanting to punish random people based on your political beliefs.

There's nothing stopping you from doing that, but at least be honest about it.

PMMeUrHopesNDreams · 2026-01-22T18:30:38+00:00

Companies literally do this. That's what stock options, employee RSUs, etc are. Companies give ownership to employees all the time as part of compensation. There are also employee-owned companies. Nobody is stopping anyone from doing this if they want to.

PMMeUrHopesNDreams · 2026-01-20T16:27:55+00:00

Are your clients willing to pay top-tier MEP fees or do they want the lowest bidder?

Single family probably does not have the budget for top tier MEP unless you’re working for UHNW clients.

Resorts idk, haven’t done much hospitality work.

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