We Opened the Architect's Model and Found Problems | Revit MEP Series Ep. 2

This is not your normal Revit MEP tutorial. It's 2 licensed PEs, electrical and mechanical, opening the architect's model on a real 3 story school for the first time and finding everything wrong with it before design starts. This is ep 2 of the series. There's a difference between the engineer a project team wants to work with and the one they don't. It's not who knows the most code. It's who catches problems early, and how they bring them up. That's what this episode is. Josh (mechanical PE) and Sam (electrical PE) open the architect's Revit model, and walk the building floor by floor. We find the main electrical room sitting on an interior wall in the front vestibule, and also that there's no mechanical room at all. Yeah...that's not gonna work. Then we talk about the part no one teaches you: what you actually say to the architect. Because they're usually the ones who hired you. You don't get to tell them they messed up. You show them the problem, you tell them what you need, and you find something to trade back. Catch this stuff at SD and it's a conversation. Catch it at 70% CD and it's a lot of frustrated people. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Where we left off (and what we're doing today) 0:40 - What a mechanical engineer owes at Schematic Design 2:42 - Picking systems by space type: VAV vs rooftop units 3:16 - One MEP model or separate models per discipline? 5:26 - Tagging the architect's rooms (and the checkbox everyone misses) 6:44 - Wait, this isn't the first floor 8:24 - Levels don't match the architect's: fixing it with Copy/Monitor 12:08 - Setting up floor plan views for a 3-story building 13:24 - Walking the first floor: cafeteria, kitchen, prep 14:34 - The electrical room is in the wrong place (NEC problem) 15:26 - Why catching this early actually matters 16:29 - Sprinkler room & water entry room placement 17:45 - Transformer location and what secondary feeders cost you 19:08 - What mechanical would mark up on this plan 21:25 - Why you don't just tell the architect to move the cafeteria 22:07 - Where the equipment yard goes 23:41 - Chases and shafts in a multi-story building 25:46 - Trading spaces with the architect 27:02 - The engineer they want to work with vs the one they don't 27:11 - Sending one full markup instead of vomiting questions 29:48 - "How big does the room need to be?" The hardest simple question 32:15 - What's an "instruction" room? Why it changes the whole load 33:11 - Electrical closets per floor & emergency power separation THE REALITY: You will never be handed a perfect set of plans. Every project you touch will have something wrong with it, and the only question is whether you find it in week 2 or month 7. Nobody teaches you how to look. You learn it by sitting next to someone who already knows, or by getting burned. If you're serious about learning this stuff, subscribe and follow the series, or check out our MEP Engineering Bootcamps where we'll give you a Revit license, help you build a job-ready portfolio, and work directly with a professional engineer. 👉 Want to learn the skills firms are actually hiring for? Start learning for free: https://www.betibuilt.com #RevitTutorial #RevitMEP #MEPEngineering #MEPCoordination #ElectricalEngineering #MechanicalEngineering #BuildingDesign #EngineeringCareer #RevitArchitecture #MEP #Revit #EngineeringStudent #CareerAdvice #HVAC #ElectricalDesign #NEC