How about HVAC, water supply and drainage and electrical engineering abroad?

First of all, MEP engineering companies in California, MEP departments of architectural firms, or general contractors all have professional positions such as HVAC engineers, water supply and drainage engineers, and electrical engineers. Due to the particularity of fire protection system design, many fire protection systems are solved by professional subcontracting design contractors.

Therefore, the actual post configuration of construction machinery and electricity is: mechanical engineer; Fire and life safety engineers, hydraulic engineers, electrical engineers, BMS engineers and energy efficiency engineers. Mechanical engineers are mainly responsible for professional design related to gas, such as air conditioning, heating, power gas, etc. That is to say, domestic power and thermal jobs have been merged. However, since I haven't seen any large power plants or large nuclear power projects, I don't know whether those projects were completed by specialized contractors. In addition, sometimes small engineering companies will merge HVAC engineers and energy efficiency engineers.

The workflow in California is the same as that in China. IP- feasibility study -CD-BD-DD-GC- construction-commissioning-handover. Only to a certain extent, GC has great rights and obligations. But also has higher requirements for debugging companies. This is because LEED has been given a certain degree of attention.

As for the specifications, of course, the American standard shall prevail. Let's talk about HVAC. The relevant standards designed and implemented in the United States are lower than those of ASHRAE, and each state has its own independent standards. [For standards, please refer to the article in my column]

In view of the increasing demand for talents, most MEP engineering companies require candidates to have a bachelor's degree or above, mostly a master's degree, be familiar with ASHRAE standards, use equest modeling, BIM-3D, CAD, LEED AP, etc., and sometimes require a project to make a schedule.

In view of the fact that the current projects in the United States are mainly infrastructure projects, multi-family and cafes, but like real estate, factories, R& D, etc. There are few centers like D, and the demand for HVAC is not high. Some companies, such as SOM, have begun to take over China's work. In addition, due to the high demand for cloud computing centers, such as Amazon and Google, large data centers have been built in succession. HVAC demand is more important.

In addition, most California companies require applicants to have a California PE license.

Let's do something to see which companies in the United States are the top MEP 100.

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1: These are 100 before MEP revenue, not 100 before all architectural firms, so we can see that large architectural design companies like SOM rank lower.

2. Common well-known companies such as Jacobs, WSP-BP, Arup and AECOM are all on the list.

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