Adapts to any mechanical project

84 mechanical engineering modules covering loads, ventilation, equipment, hydronic + steam + airside distribution, controls, compliance, deliverables, and economics. Pick what your project needs. Save the combination as your firm's reusable template. Run on every job. Office, lab, hospital, data center, district plant — the same tool, the same data bus, your project's shape.

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Calculation depth

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Thermal Load Calculations

Three fully implemented methods for peak heating and cooling loads. All are altitude-corrected and include latent outdoor air loads.

Simplified CLTD/CLF RTS (RP-1117) Altitude-corrected
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Ventilation Design

Full ASHRAE 62.1-2019 compliance — per-zone Vbz/Voz and multiple-zone recirculating system outdoor air (Vou, Ev, Vot) with diversity.

ASHRAE 62.1-2019 §6.2.2 §6.2.5 Multi-zone DCV
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Hydronic Pipe Sizing

Darcy-Weisbach friction factor with Colebrook iteration. Four network topologies with full pressure drop and pump head calculations.

Direct Return Reverse Return Primary/Secondary Ring Main (Hardy-Cross)
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Duct Sizing & Airside

Equivalent diameter method with friction loss and velocity constraints. Full duct network solver for supply and return systems.

Equivalent diameter Network solver Terminal units
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Equipment Selection

Rule-based system recommendation wizard — building type, load, climate zone, and zone count → ranked system recommendations with rationale.

System wizard Ancillary generator Plant totals
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Psychrometrics

Humidity ratio, dew point, enthalpy, and wet-bulb per ASHRAE Fundamentals. Moist air properties for any design condition.

Magnus formula Sprung wet-bulb SI & IP units

Compliance Checks

Automated rule checks against ASHRAE 90.1, IMC, and NFPA. Flags critical issues and provides code references at every step.

ASHRAE 90.1 IMC 2021 NFPA
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Reports & Exports

6-page PDF engineering report, CSV schedules, and markdown summaries — all generated in one click. No external PDF dependencies.

PDF report CSV export Markdown
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15 Project Templates

Pre-built templates for commercial, industrial, and specialty project types — office, hospital, data center, chiller plant, wastewater, and more.

Commercial Industrial Healthcare Data center
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Controls & BMS

Control sequences and BMS point lists generated from your system design. Covers HVAC unit, plant, and terminal unit control logic.

Control sequences BMS point lists
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Economics & Life Cycle Cost

Capital cost, operating cost, and 20-year life cycle cost analysis. Compare system alternatives side by side.

LCC analysis Simple payback System comparison
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gbXML Export

gbXML 7.03 export with project spaces, areas, and design loads. Compatible with Revit, IES VE, OpenStudio, eQUEST, and other gbXML-aware tools — populate a Revit space list without re-typing your zones.

gbXML 7.03 Revit IES VE OpenStudio
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System Comparison

Side-by-side schematic comparison of 4 HVAC system archetypes — VAV+CHW+HW, 4-pipe FCU, VRF, water-source heat pump loop. Capital cost range, annual energy, mech room footprint, and 15-year LCC, scaled to your project area.

VAV FCU VRF WSHP
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Save as Template

Convert any project into a reusable template. Build a per-firm template library that captures your default scope, zones, and inputs — every new project starts from your firm's baseline, not a blank workspace.

Per-firm library .aim.json
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2-page Equipment Sizing PDF

Polished 2-page summary with project meta, design conditions, building loads, ventilation, and full equipment schedule. Engineers paste it directly into submittals and basis-of-design documents.

PDF Submittal-ready

Built on published standards — not guesswork

ASHRAE 90.1-2022 ASHRAE 62.1-2022 ASHRAE 15-2022 ASHRAE Fundamentals 2021 ASHRAE RP-1117 (RTS) SMACNA 2006 IMC 2021 IFGC 2021 NFPA 90A · 90B · 96 · 99 NEC 430 Darcy-Weisbach Colebrook-White

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