MEP engineers, how often does this happen to you?

[nscherneck]

Im an electrical designer. I do alot of as-built plans for customers who have little documentation of their electrical system. I am not a fan of recreating a floorplan. Unfortunately, often times i have to do this for a customer who claims to not be able to get a copy of the original floorplan. How often are you other designers doing this? I assume you charge an additional fee...if so, how much?

Thanks,
Nathan

[Galingula]

For as builts and the like...55 to 65 and hr, same as CAD rates. But send the intern, you make more off them being out there. A tape and a camera, common sense and a notebook (preferably a computer) is all they need

[StykFacE]

Im an electrical designer. I do alot of as-built plans for customers who have little documentation of their electrical system. I am not a fan of recreating a floorplan. Unfortunately, often times i have to do this for a customer who claims to not be able to get a copy of the original floorplan. How often are you other designers doing this? I assume you charge an additional fee...if so, how much?

Thanks,
Nathan
Oh yeah, happens to all of us. i'm in the HVAC & Piping field. if you can get ahold of a copy of the floorplans via prints, TIFFs, PDFs, whatever, then you can scan/import them into CAD, rescale them, and "trace" over the floorplan with the MLINE tool to get a quick floorplan. from there, it's up to you for the MEP work. that's how we do it anyways. :)