OpenMEP

Open MEP building state that a language model can reason about and edit correctly — grounded in deterministic loads and duct sizing, graded by a deterministic checker.

The bet: the useful unit of AI-assisted HVAC design is not a Revit plugin but a small, inspectable data model (rooms, loads, terminals, ducts, connectivity, constraints) that deterministic engines compute over and agents edit. This repo is that model, the engines, and the harness that measures whether an agent can edit it without breaking it.

What is here

Real-model tests and evals run on public IFC fixtures (buildingSMART Duplex and WBDG Office ARCH + MEP pairs, CC BY 4.0) fetched by fixtures/fetch-public-ifc.sh; see fixtures/README.md for provenance and the exporter quirks the pipeline handles. No IFC is committed to this repository.

Quick start

Give an agent a duct-sizing tool

claude mcp add openmep -- npx -y -p @openmep/mcp openmep-mcp

Any MCP client works ({"command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "-p", "@openmep/mcp", "openmep-mcp"]}). Describe the system in plain language, with the CFM each terminal needs, and the agent calls the engine; see packages/mcp/README.md.

Size a duct network from JSON (no editor required)

npx -p @openmep/hvac-domain openmep-hvac size packages/hvac-domain/examples/furnace-two-registers.items.json --pretty
npx -p @openmep/hvac-domain openmep-hvac duct --cfm 250 --role main --diameter-in 6

From a checkout: npm ci && npm run build --workspace @openmep/hvac-domain, then node packages/hvac-domain/bin/openmep-hvac.js ....

The network is a list of equipment, fittings, terminals with engineer-supplied requiredCfm, and segments linked by connectedItemRefs. The result lists each run's system, CFM, role, recommended standard round diameter, velocity and friction rate, grades any existing section as ok/undersized/oversized, and reports terminals with no airflow or no path to equipment. Any host that can produce this document gets the same engine; openmep-pascal items produces it from a Pascal scene.

Try airflow design

Change a room's supply airflow, preview the connected duct sizes on the plan, apply or undo the change, and export the edited plan JSON.

npm ci
npm run dev:design
# Open http://localhost:3001/design

Requires Node.js 24+. The first launch fetches the public Office IFC pair and prepares Level 1; no database, .env, or model credentials are needed. Pass -- --refresh to rebuild the example, or -- --port 3002 to use another port. Edits are session-local manual airflow scenarios with round-duct proposals; export saves the applied plan JSON, not a rewritten IFC. The public example labels its inferred connections and assumed initial demands. Existing model viewers also link to Airflow design for their selected storey.

Full viewer and IFC pipeline

npm ci
fixtures/fetch-public-ifc.sh            # duplex + wbdg_office (~55 MB)
npm run build --workspace @openmep/hvac-domain --workspace @openmep/agent-benchmark
npm test

Materialize an editable HVAC plan from the public office model:

npm run eval:materialize -- \
  --arch fixtures/public/wbdg_office/arc.ifc \
  --mech fixtures/public/wbdg_office/mep.ifc \
  --model-id wbdg_office
# eval-runs/wbdg_office/Level_1/{architecture,loads,mechanicalVisual2D,mechanicalEdit2D,baseline}.json

Run the synthetic agent benchmark: npm run benchmark:verify, or see packages/agent-benchmark/README.md for grading your own candidates.

Web app

1. Copy .env.example to .env; start PostgreSQL and create the database.
2. npm run db:init
3. npm run dev:web — seeds the Duplex pair as a stable dev fixture at /models/00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000001?mode=plan (MEP_SKIP_DEV_FIXTURE=1 to skip; IFC_FIXTURE_DIR to relocate fixtures).
4. npm run dev:worker in a second terminal.

Status and limits

• Loads are design-day, steady-state (no RTS/CTS lag, latent, or schedules) and not yet validated against a reference case; envelope U-values come from ASHRAE 90.1 prescriptive tables, climate from 15 city anchors. Treat outputs as preliminary sizing inputs, not a sealed design.
• Roof loads are zero for Revit exports whose ceilings are room-bounding (all seen so far); plenum inference is open work.
• Duct connectivity for exports without IfcRelConnectsPorts is inferred geometrically and flagged as such on every item.

License

MIT — see LICENSE. Fixture data keeps its upstream licenses (fixtures/README.md). Release and provenance rules for the npm packages: docs/public-artifact-release.md.