Endra Expands To The US With $50m Firepower As Data Center Boom Outruns Engineering Workforce
Every large building you have ever walked into was designed twice. An architect designed the part you can see, the shape and the rooms and the light. Then a second, far less famous group of engineers designed the part you cannot see: where every wire runs, where every outlet, vent, pipe, fire alarm and light fixture goes, how much power each floor draws and how all of it complies with building codes.
This second discipline is called MEP engineering, short for mechanical, electrical and plumbing and nothing gets built without it. The global market for this work exceeds $150 billion a year, it typically absorbs one to five per cent of the cost of every building on earth and it remains stubbornly manual. A skilled engineer places devices and routes circuits room by room, floor by floor, checks each decision against code and can spend two months producing the...
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