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To my wife and daughter for all their support, all the time, thank you.

Firstly I'm going to thank my wife Carole and daughter Jess: Thank you both for your continued support over the past year while I have been working on this and other projects; it doesn't come anywhere near the thanks due for all your hard work and patience during the time I have been either working away from home or writing late into the night. The support from you both over the years has helped me achieve so muchwhat else can I say but thank you and I love you.

This edition of the book is quite special for me. I've gotten to edit and write the entire confection! But that doesn't mean I'm now a team of one, as this is still a collaborative enterprise. So thank you also to everyone at Sybex who helped to get this edition moving. It seems unfair to single out any one person; suffice it to say that without you, there would be no book.

A special thanks to Steve Stafford, who has managed to keep me and the book on the straight and narrow. And finally, a real big thank-you to Don Bokmiller. Again. Well, you didn't come back for more this year, but without your hard work in previous editions, I don't think I would be here, writing this .

I'd also like to thank Autodesknot just because I am now a part of their great team, but also for inspiring me to push myself. There is so much cool and amazing stuff coming out of the company that I am proud to finally be a part of such a great organization that influences so many people around the world. The world of technology is moving forward at such a terrific rate. I am amazed almost daily by the great work and products the company is producing.

Simon Whitbread, Enterprise Priority Revit Specialist at Autodesk, started using Revit at release 5.1. He has over 30 years of experience in the building services and architectural industries. Since the early 1990s, he has been involved in developing and managing CAD and IT systems. He moved to New Zealand in 2002, where he led the implementation of Revit Architecture at Jasmax, one of New Zealand's leading architectural practices. More recently he has been providing implementation, support, and training services for AutoCAD and the Revit suite of programs to companies in Australia, Dubai, Indonesia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the United States. Now living in the United Kingdom, Simon enjoys spending time with his family, is a frequent speaker at Autodesk University and Revit Technology Conference (RTC) events, is a member of AUGI, and sometimes finds the odd moment for Twitter and Facebook.

Welcome to Mastering AutodeskRevitMEP 2016. I have worked diligently to bring you a book that takes you through the core features and functionality of Revit MEP 2016 from both the design and documentation perspectives.

I first started using Revit MEP in 2006 when it was known as Revit Systems. Since then the software has been on a fast-track development pace to bring it up to speed with the Autodesk Revit Architecture and Autodesk Revit Structure programs. This 2016 release of Revit MEP provides platform improvements (that is, of features shared among the three discipline-focused versions) along with MEP-specific features that make this a very exciting edition.

When Revit Systems was first released, it was intended primarily to allow MEP engineers to join the move toward building information modeling (BIM) that was being adopted by architects and structural engineers. The features and functionality were, in the opinion of most, limited to provide a complete MEP project. The development team has been listening to the needs of users and has now delivered tools and features that many of us have desired from the beginning. The focus has been on performance in this release, improving performance by managing when calculations are performed and how elements are processed in views, resulting in more efficiency while users navigate views. With the introduction of fabrication parts, Revit can now go the full distance in a project, from concept to handover.