MEP Engineer — Electrical · Mechanical · Plumbing

Christine Murr

Every building hides a second one — the power, air and water inside it. That's the one I draw.

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Sheet
00 — Cover
Subject
Project Ether, street elevation
Discipline
MEP
Scale
NTS
Project Ether, street elevation, as a line drawing

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Sheet 01 — Statement

MEP is the part of a building nobody photographs. It is also the part everyone feels: the light at the switch, cool air on a July afternoon, hot water at six in the morning.

Sheet 02 — Systems

The building inside the building.

  1. 00The shell

    First, the architecture. Slabs, walls, a core. Beautiful — and, for now, silent.

  2. EPower

    From the transformer and the main switchboard, a riser climbs the core and feeds every floor: lighting, sockets, and the plant on the roof. Backup power waits in the basement.

  3. MAir

    Plant on the roof, a duct down the core, and air delivered room by room — sized for the heat of the building and the people in it.

  4. PWater

    Water pumped up to the roof tank, fed back down to every kitchen and bathroom, then carried away again, by gravity, to the sewer.

  5. ✓Together

    Three systems in the same few centimetres of ceiling — checked against each other, and against the structure, before anything is built.

Illustrative section of a building showing electrical, mechanical and plumbing systems
Illustrative section — not to scale

Sheet 03 — Disciplines

Three systems, drawn as one.

E

Electrical

Power from the transformer to the last socket — and light where people need it.

  • Load calculations
  • Power distribution & single-line diagrams
  • Lighting layouts
  • Backup & emergency power
  • Earthing & lightning protection
M

Mechanical

Air, comfort and ventilation, sized to the space and the people in it.

  • Cooling & heating loads
  • HVAC system selection
  • Ductwork & piping layouts
  • Ventilation & extract
  • Equipment schedules
P

Plumbing

Water in, water out, and the right pressure everywhere in between.

  • Water supply & storage
  • Pumps & booster sets
  • Drainage & venting
  • Hot water systems
  • Rainwater
✓

Coordination

Every duct, cable tray and pipe given its place before the concrete is poured — so the three systems never meet on site.

  • Checks against architecture & structure
  • Shaft & ceiling space planning
  • Openings for the structure
  • Drawings that agree with each other

Sheet 04 — Selected work

Project Ether

A courtyard block on a podium: shops on the street, homes above, a pool in the middle and terraces on the roof.

Type
Residential · retail podium
Form
Courtyard block, roof terraces

What a building like this asks of MEP

  1. 01Services for the homes cross the podium and the shops beneath it.
  2. 02A courtyard pool brings its own plant room and water treatment.
  3. 03People live on the roof — so the plant up there is planned, not just placed.

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Project Ether seen from the street: terraced white balconies, palm trees, wood-clad rooftops
Fig. 1Street elevation
Project Ether from above: the courtyard with its pool and gardens, framed by the residential wings
Fig. 2The courtyard
Project Ether from above the street: the long front with its glazed ground floor and roof terraces
Fig. 3From above

Sheet 05 — Process

From a brief to a building that works.

  1. 01

    Brief & loads

    What the building will need — power, cooling, water — estimated before anything is drawn.

  2. 02

    Concept

    Where the plant goes, how the risers run, and how much ceiling the services must keep.

  3. 03

    Design & drawings

    Layouts, schematics and schedules, floor by floor and discipline by discipline.

  4. 04

    Coordination

    Services checked against the architecture and the structure, so nothing meets on site.

  5. 05

    Tender & site

    Specifications for tender, and clear answers when the contractor asks.

Sheet 06 — Contact

Let's draw what's behind the walls.

Contact details are on their way.