MagiCAD helps with drawing MEP elements for airplane hangar

Since 2008, a team of seven MEP (mechanical and plumbing) engineers based in Reykjavik have used MagiCAD for design work. Ingólfur Bachmann, a mechanical engineer who designs heating and ventilation systems explained: “Mostly we use MagiCAD for heating, piping and ventilation design – although we recently purchased the sprinkler calculations module.”   Some further statistics about the MEP elements:

• Foam sprinkler fans 23pcs – 920l/min.
• Sprinkler pumps 3pcs – 21,160l/min @ 9,1bar
• Three heating systems, total 850kW
• Heating panels 630m

“The hangar is in operation now, and the testing of the sprinkler system that we designed was quite impressive,” Ingólfur Bachmann, a mechanical engineer who designs heating and ventilation systems commented. “Having MagiCAD helped us when designing the pipe layout, and accommodating them around the steel structures,” he continued. “We were able to run MagiCAD’s IFC tool and run clash detection between our HVAC design and the steel structure designs. This only takes a matter of minutes.”