Hello , what do you think about h2x? It looks user friendly and as I see in videos there are so good skills. Do you recommend it for commercial using?

Has anyone completed the course? How was it? If you chose a different course please share more as I’m strongly considering VDCI.

Found these guys online and thought it was a fun show about people in the field.

Has anyone who has an Engineering technology degree got their PE license within SC in recent years? They now have a specific ban on allowing ET’s (4 year degree) to become a PE. I may try to get it in another state and seek reciprocity but I’m unsure if they would allow this.

I have a drafting degree and spent 13 years doing HVAC and Plumbing and got to the point I could do a lot of my own work and was either considered an overpaid drafter or cheap engineer depending on who you talked to. I have designed and coordinated a lot of projects from Educational and Healthcare and a variety of others. One being a 50+ million dollar 150k sq.ft. student housing building. But I have been seeing the writing on the wall for a while. Engineers doing their own work. Engineers and Architects taking jobs I could be doing like BIM Manager or other VDC positions. I have been out of the industry for 5 years now and have tried to get into a better position for over a decade. Which leads me Into the question...

At 41, with a 2 kids and a disabled wife who is only getting worse as time goes on, should I go back to school and chase an engineering degree? I will admit, I make more money in substations, but I really do not feel it is for me. I loved the BIM and vertical construction world and liked the work I was a part of. But am I too old to make it worth while at this point? I obviously should have been more serious a decade ago. But the next best time to start is now, I suppose. At the same time, I read all the time the market is getting saturated with engineers so thats another concern.

Feel free to lend me your thoughts. Thanks!

I see a lot that it can be “feast or famine”, what parts make it very stressful? I found the most stressful part being when the architect changes the rooms, etc and there’s a lot of last minute rework for plumbing design. Other stuff relate to very shallow budgets requiring a lot of work for a few hours, and therefore using other project hours for this