Summer Placement - Building Services Review

Helping the MEP team on mechanical and electrical aspects to a project in addition to general research tasks. This involves internal meetings with the MEP team, my manager, and colleagues I worked alongside for projects. Tasks varied from a day-to-day basis depending on project and included using Revit (+ Dynamo) and IESVE for building models, drawing schematics, coding, and using Excel and Revu for data processing. Time-wise, roughly 15% on meetings, 85% on tasks.

Improved my social skills from collaborating with colleagues and communicating with industry professionals. Learned how to use Revit (+ Dynamo plug-in), IESVE and Revu from working on projects. Developed my existing Excel skills by making an automated calculation template and also from data processing.

I was able to work on meaningful tasks. Responsible for developing project deliverables like drawings and schematics. Also responsible for long-term benefits for team like writing code which automates part of electrical design process and creating a funding database in Excel, both of which could be used for future projects. Autonomy was involved when working on multiple projects and also when finding work to do when tasks were completed.

Lots of amazing support and guidance from colleagues when completing tasks, especially on areas/software I had little experience with previously. Everyone was happy to help. There was also online training available for software. Line manager did a good job looking after me.

Office atmosphere was very casual and welcoming. Good company culture offering flexible working options. Social events in and out of the office, typically at least once a month.

I was very pleased with my range of tasks and responsibilities, doing mechanical and electrical work in addition to site visits. The team was very helpful and eager to get me involved with project work. Good company culture and good office atmosphere. Really enjoyed the internship and could see myself working for BH in the future.

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The recruitment process was straightforward - went over my CV during the interview. I would recommend reading up on the company and checking over CV. Also advice enquiring about what software is used in advance and getting a head start if possible. Might also be worth doing background reading into the industry.