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Enquiry and inputs
You send the scope, stage and the drawings or models you have. We confirm what is usable, what is missing and which services the project actually needs.
MEP BIM for transportation buildings and facilities
Terminals and stations are buildings first: long spans, large volumes, high occupancy and long operating hours. We model and coordinate their building services — not the track, roads or airside systems around them.
Building types
The transportation buildings we support
The building and facility components of transportation projects. Taken on where the project's specialist requirements and inputs are confirmed.
Building typeAirport terminals and passenger buildings
Concourses, check-in halls, gate lounges and landside passenger buildings — building services only.
Building typeRailway and metro stations
Station buildings, concourses and ticket halls, with the building-services interfaces to platform areas.
Building typeBus terminals and interchanges
Passenger interchange buildings, waiting halls and operational offices.
Building typeTransport administration buildings
Control, administration and office buildings serving transport operators.
Building typeDepots and maintenance buildings
Depot and workshop buildings, where the scope is building services rather than process or rolling-stock systems.
Building typeParking structures and associated buildings
Multi-storey car parks with ventilation, drainage, lighting and fire protection.
Building typePassenger amenities and support buildings
Retail, toilet blocks, staff facilities and operational support buildings.
Transportation buildings & facilities
What makes transportation buildings different
Large volumes change the ventilation problem
A concourse or terminal hall is a single tall space, not a stack of floors. Ventilation, smoke extraction and comfort cooling have to work across long spans, and the ductwork that does it often runs at high level along the roof structure. Coordinating that against long-span steel and roof drainage is where the effort concentrates.
Buildings that never close
Stations and terminals operate for most of the day, every day. Maintenance has to happen around passengers, so access to plant, valves and dampers is a design requirement. We test access and maintenance clearances as part of coordination, not only hard clashes.
A clear line between building and infrastructure
Transportation projects combine buildings with specialist infrastructure. Our scope is the building services inside and serving the building. Track, signalling, roads, bridges, tunnels and airside systems need their own specialists, and we say so at the start.
Coordination and documentation priorities
What we prioritise on transportation buildings
The building-services issues that drive coordination effort in terminals, stations and their support buildings.
PriorityLong-span and high-level services
Ductwork, drainage and containment routed along roof structure and at height, coordinated with long-span steel.
PriorityVentilation and smoke extraction modelling
Large-volume ventilation and smoke extract ductwork modelled and coordinated to the design supplied.
PriorityAccess and maintenance clearance
Clearances for plant, valves and dampers tested as rules, because maintenance happens while the building is in use.
PriorityPlant-room and equipment-space coordination
Plant rooms, risers and equipment spaces laid out with replacement routes and access.
PriorityConstruction-stage updates
Model updates during construction and as-built handover, if included in scope.
Leading discipline. HVAC and fire protection usually lead in large passenger volumes, with drainage and electrical containment following the long-span structure.
Typical deliverables
What a project in this sector usually receives
The exact list is set in the proposal. Every item comes from the BIMRACE service catalogue and handover checklist.
DeliverableNative Revit MEP models
HVAC, ventilation, plumbing, drainage, fire protection and electrical distribution and lighting models in editable .RVT.
DeliverableFederated model and clash reports
Federated models with clash and access/maintenance clearance reviews, issue logs and viewpoints.
DeliverablePlant-room and equipment-space coordination
Coordinated plant rooms, risers and equipment spaces with sections.
DeliverableShop drawings and schedules
Installation drawings, builders' work drawings and equipment schedules derived from the coordinated model.
DeliverableQuantity takeoffs
Model-based quantities and BOQ support with stated measurement rules.
DeliverableConstruction updates and as-built handover
Construction-stage model updates and as-built handover from verified site information, if included in scope.
How an engagement runs
Five steps from enquiry to handover
The same sequence on every project, so you know at each point what you will receive next and what we need from you.
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Scope and proposal
We agree the deliverables, the level of model detail (LOD/LOI — how much geometry and data each element carries), file formats, programme and what is excluded.
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Modelling and coordination
Revit models are built from your design information and checked against architecture, structure and each other. AI-assisted checking groups the issues; engineers resolve them.
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QA/QC and issue
Every issue passes model QA/QC before it leaves us. Drawings, schedules, quantities and clash reports are issued under revision control.
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Handover
Native models, drawings, registers and a handover note listing files, assumptions and anything left open — so the building owner can actually use what they receive.
Information requirements
What the model has to be able to answer here
Level of information need is a sector-specific question. These are the requirements that are characteristic of this building type rather than generic to BIM.
- Clear scope boundary between building services and infrastructure systems
- Access and maintenance zones modelled, not assumed
- Equipment data for operator asset registers
- Exchange formats agreed with the wider project team, often IFC and NWC/NWD
AI & automation
Where AI and automation earn their place here
Not everywhere, and not equally. Each line carries its real status.
AIAI clash grouping and prioritisationLive
Clashes on large federated models grouped by cause and responsible discipline, so coordination meetings resolve rather than discover.
AppliesClearance rule setsLive
Access and maintenance clearances tested across the whole model, not sampled by eye.
AppliesQuantity extraction and revision comparisonLive
Duct, pipe and containment quantities measured from the model and compared between revisions.
Services
The capabilities that matter most here
- HVAC BIM
- Fire protection BIM
- BIM coordination & clash detection
- Plumbing BIM
- Electrical BIM
- MEP shop drawings & documentation
- Quantity takeoff & BOQ
- Revit modelling & model management
- As-built & existing-building BIM
What this page does and does not say. It describes the discipline mix, the coordination character and the workflow fit for this building type. It does not claim completed projects in the sector.
This site publishes no client logos, no project counts and no testimonials, because none have been released and verified yet. If you want evidence rather than a description at enquiry stage, ask for a working session — we will screen-share the rule sets and live QA output under NDA. The projects page explains the measurement rules we have committed to in advance.
Scope boundary
What is excluded on transportation projects
Stated at enquiry stage, because a boundary discovered in month three is a dispute and the same boundary stated now is just information.
- Rail alignments, track systems, roads, bridges, tunnels and other civil infrastructure are excluded unless separately agreed and supported by the appropriate specialists.
- Signalling, communications, traction power and airside/aviation systems are specialist engineering scopes and are excluded unless separately agreed.
- Specialist smoke-control analysis, tunnel ventilation and fire engineering require agreed design responsibility and qualified specialists.
- We do not claim specialist airport, railway or metro credentials. Statutory and operator approvals remain with the appointed designers.
FAQ
Questions we are asked at enquiry stage
Do you work on airport terminals and railway stations?
On their building services — HVAC, ventilation, plumbing, drainage, fire protection and electrical — yes, where the project's specialist requirements are confirmed. We do not work on track, signalling, roads, tunnels or airside systems.
What is the difference between a transportation building and transportation infrastructure?
The building is the terminal, station, depot or car park and the services inside it. The infrastructure is the track, roads, bridges, tunnels and systems such as signalling. Our scope is the building services; infrastructure needs its own specialists.
Can you coordinate our MEP models with the wider project's infrastructure models?
We can federate building-services models with the models the wider team supplies and report clashes at the interfaces. Resolving infrastructure design remains with its designers.
Do you model smoke extraction systems?
We model and coordinate smoke extract ductwork and equipment to the design supplied. Smoke control analysis and tunnel ventilation design are specialist scopes we do not provide unless separately agreed with qualified specialists.
Do you have airport or railway project credentials?
We do not publish project history until a client releases it, and we do not claim sector credentials we have not verified. Ask at enquiry stage and we will show our workflow and QA output under NDA.
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