“Can’t AI do that?”- this question comes up in almost every engineering office these days, whether it’s performing dimensioning for a system, verifying (spatial) data, or searching through standards. Hardly any other topic has received as much attention in recent years as artificial intelligence -…
Anyone who has previously worked with zones in Revit - the so-called "spider's web" - will be in for an unpleasant surprise in Revit 2027: The traditional zones no longer exist. In this post, we explain the alternatives, how we’re handling them, and what this means for existing LINEAR projects.
LINEAR Analysis District Heating enables CAD-based, professionally verifiable, and optimizable heating network planning with a high degree of transparency – from georeferenced pipe routes and component-specific data collection to robust error and plausibility checks, as well as variant calculations…
Even in the early design stages, piping, shafts and ventilation systems determine costs and effort. BIM-based routing concepts enable automatic dimensioning, variant analysis and seamless coordination with the architectural design. Learn more in this article about how to implement your MEP project…
The digital room data sheet is evolving from what used to be an "appendix" consisting of static lists into a comprehensive information model and management tool that structurally links requirements, planning, and subsequent use. It ensures transparency, particularly in the design and planning…
A look at the already completed municipal heat plan of cities and municipalities shows that in the coming years, a large number of new and diverse (local) district heating networks will be created in order to decarbonize the heat supply in Germany with economical solutions. The designing of these…
The new features in the latest versions of the LINEAR Solutions have brought significant improvements to the workflow in many areas. We have already presented some of these in several technical articles and in our “What's New.” In this blog article, we want to demonstrate how to use the new features…
LINEAR GmbH is setting the course for the future: As of July 1, 2025, the management of our software company has been expanded as part of the generational change. Our founder and previous managing partner Manfred Waluga is retiring from the operational business. He will remain with us in an advisory…
Building Information Modeling (BIM) has fundamentally established itself as the method for collaborative design, construction, and operation of buildings. However, in practice, implementation often progresses slowly. A key reason for this is that data-driven design often seems too complex, causing…
In Moers, the housing company VIVAWEST is modernizing six apartment buildings with a total of 46 residential units by replacing old gas floor heating systems with central heat pump systems and decentralized Regudis W-HTE GT dwelling stations. The aim is to reduce CO₂ emissions, increase energy…
While revising a video script that I’ll later translate, one word catches my eye: “MEP designer” It makes me wonder—who actually uses our software solutions? Who reads my translations? Who are these people we always refer to as our “customers”? I catch myself picturing mostly men, sitting in front…
