Building services engineers spend too much time on admin and not enough on engineering. PDFs, spreadsheets, and browser tabs swallow your day. Here are five ways MEP Desk cuts that time on every project.
1. Unified search
Stop switching between PDFs, spreadsheets, and browser tabs. MEP Desk gives you one search across all references, standards, and project data. Find a ventilation rate, a pipe size, or a room note without opening six different files. Press Ctrl+Shift+F from anywhere and search everything — works offline.
2. Auto-run calculations
Change a room's dimensions or ventilation rate, and dependent calculations update automatically. No manual re-entry. No copy-pasting results from one calculator into another. The heat loss, ACH, duct size, and flow rate all stay in sync because they share the same room context.
3. Project assumptions
Set design parameters once — temperatures, ventilation rates, velocities — and every calculation in that project uses them. Change one assumption, and every affected result updates. No more hunting through spreadsheets to find where you set the internal design temperature.
4. Clean exports
One click to export room schedules, calculation summaries, and equipment duties to Excel. No copy-pasting from calculators into spreadsheets. No manual formatting. Choose which categories to include and get a clean, structured output that traces every result back to its inputs.
5. Standards tracking
Know instantly which edition of Part L, Guide A, or BS 7671 is current. No more "is this the latest version?" rabbit holes. The Standards Tracker shows 63 UK standards with their current editions, status, and relevance — so you can focus on design, not document archaeology.
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