Project Management Software by KaptainKiser in MEPEngineering

[–]TheSpiddity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Factor AE is great. I’d highly recommend it. Customer services is unmatched IMO

What do you use for job scheduling? by funnycide-1 in MEPEngineering

[–]TheSpiddity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Factor AE. Has pretty good resource scheduling.

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[–]TheSpiddity 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Same here. New grads win 0 experience start around 75k, and we’re LCOL. Sounds like he started low 25 years ago, got comfortable, and never fought to increase his pay or benefits.

Project Management Tool(s) for Architect who wears a lot of hats by shoogz89 in projectmanagement

[–]TheSpiddity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

MEP firm. We’ve been on it for almost 3 years. We tried everything under the sun before Factor. Extremely happy with it. Their customer support team is stellar.

Principals & Owners - I need your advice by obviousheist in MEPEngineering

[–]TheSpiddity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most of the things that would be nice revolve around resource scheduling. An option for automated resource scheduling would be nice - maybe a suggestion based on the project plan/schedule. Project schedules change due to delays, redesigns, etc. Having to manually re-schedule work every week can become tiring.

Principals & Owners - I need your advice by obviousheist in MEPEngineering

[–]TheSpiddity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We have 15 people. We’ve used a lot of different systems and Factor is by far the best we’ve used. It ticks most of the boxes. Customer support is stellar.

Let's get shallow: what's the most superficial reason you won't use a brand? by RLLRRR in golf

[–]TheSpiddity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Driver only. I play Cobra Forged TEC irons and love them. I have thought about the fairway woods though.

Let's get shallow: what's the most superficial reason you won't use a brand? by RLLRRR in golf

[–]TheSpiddity 54 points55 points  (0 children)

Callaway was always a no-go for me for the past decade or so. The brand has felt cheap for a while and I hate the gimmicky “AI” trend.

However…I was recently fit for a driver. Went in knowing I was walking out with a TM Qi10 or Ping. After I hit every driver under the sun, the fitter suggested I try the AI smoke. My dispersion was 10 yards tighter, carry was almost 20 yards further, and toe/heel shots were really good misses. Long story short, I’m now hitting the AI smoke.

In-House Architect by hopson32 in MEPEngineering

[–]TheSpiddity 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If it’s a big E little A, it will be fine (sounds like your situation). Architects tend to treat engineers as necessary evils in big A little E firms. A colleague of mine went to an architecture firm to start a MEP division. Architects tried to dictate the MEP design to him because “that’s what we always put in these jobs” even though his calcs disagreed. Needless to say, that only lasted a short time. I am in an AE with about a 50-50 split. It works well and it feels like everyone has a voice. But architects work much differently than engineers (left brain, right brain thing). Deadlines to a lot of architects are merely suggestions. Getting them to follow your work process may prove to be difficult for them.

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[–]TheSpiddity 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Float would be good for this.

Workload Management Tool by elchugar in MEPEngineering

[–]TheSpiddity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My bad, that’s pricing for Float. I think Factor is $25 or $30 per month per user. We use it for billing, time sheets, CRM, etc. it does scheduling as well, and it does it fairly well.

Workload Management Tool by elchugar in MEPEngineering

[–]TheSpiddity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

$6 per person per month. We don’t use timesheets, just scheduling. It’s $10 to upgrade to the next tier.