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MEP work moves between models, drawings, documents, spreadsheets and conversations. 8space brings it into one connected workspace, built for people and ready for AI.
A connected project
A change in the design can mean updating a drawing, rewriting a specification, rebuilding a quantity sheet and explaining it all again to the team. When the work is spread across tools, keeping it together becomes a project of its own.
8space brings design, documentation, quantities, files and tasks into the same project. The information behind a decision stays with the work, so teams spend less effort moving it from one place to another.
Design / Documents / BOQ / Files / Tasks
Design in context
Start with the building: architectural references, levels and floor plans give MEP decisions a place. Develop layouts and routes with the wider project in view.
2D and 3D are connected views of the same design. Draw in either, move between them, and carry the information into the documentation. Spatial decisions and system information belong together.
Building context / Connected 2D + 3D / System design
From design to delivery
The work does not end at the drawing. Create project documentation and the BOQ from what you design, with specifications, quantities and costs alongside the model.
Bring the drawings, written documentation and cost sheets into a shared set of deliverables. Share the files and assign the next tasks in the same workspace, keeping the project context with the handover.
Drawings / Documentation / BOQ / Shared deliverables
People and AI
Useful AI needs more than an isolated prompt. It needs to understand the project, the related documents and the task it has been given. A connected workspace gives that work a shared foundation.
Route a task to a person or to AI, with the relevant project context attached. Keep the result, the conversation and the next decision beside the work, so your team can follow the task without rebuilding its context.
Project context / Human or AI / Work carried forward
The opportunity
The idea is bigger than a design editor: a shared workspace for the work around every MEP project. Documents, BOQ, tasks and file sharing are useful on their own. Connected editors bring the design into that same space.
With project information in one workspace, your team and AI can use the same context without assembling it again for each task.