Yakima, WA
March 2024
"First, it's getting used to Revit and how to deal with that, and then with Design Master, it's actually pretty simple... it's been great.”
Bill Ross, President
Peoria, IL
July 2024
"We're able to speed up a timeline of a project so we can tell an architect, yeah, it won't take us eight weeks to do it. We can do it in four because we have the assistance of ElectroBIM that keeps it all tied together.”
Michael Bianchi, Electrical Engineer
South Bend, IN
December 2023
“The automation of feeders, breaker sizing that comes with the software helps eliminate mistakes. The automation of the software calculations allows for it to get it right the first time.”
Eric Baker, VDC Manager
Fort Worth, TX
July 2023
“It allows you to make the changes quicker, which is everything in today’s game—do it quicker.”
Beth Mattern, PE, LC, LEED AP
El Cajon, CA
May 2023
“Now that we have all this stuff dialed in, there’s probably 25% time-saving per project versus the other way using multiple systems.”
Bryan Wayne, PE
Austin, TX
March 2023
“Having been at a number of different companies, it always felt like it would’ve been better if we had Design Master, or it was better because we had Design Master.”
Aaron Dennington, PE, LEED AP
“It’s just incredible how easy it is to have Design Master layer on top of our projects and work with all of our families.”
Dean Macy, PE
San Francisco, CA
November 2022
“As long as you start with good information at the utility, you’re matching some of these very high-powered programs, and we’re able to do it in Revit.”
Jill FitzSimons, PE
Neenah, WI
March 2022
“I can assist the client in reaching their goal, and Design Master takes 90% of that credit.”
Bryan Zapf
Sarasota, FL
July 2021
“It has improved our quality control tremendously.”
Jeff Gray
Yakima, WA
May 2021
“I can set up a Revit family and know that … the breaker will come up correctly, and the circuit description will be something useful.”
Brian Muir, P.Eng.
Comox, BC
July 2020
“Design Master eliminated so many steps. … Instead of doing A through Z, let’s do A, B, and C, and we’re done.”
Jay Nieman
Stockton, CA
July 2019
“Design Master Electrical RT cuts our design time just about in half.”
Corey McKinnon, LEED AP BD+C, Director of Design and Engineering
Kent, WA
May 2017
“There’s no learning curve with ElectroBIM. Just push one button and the calculations start working.”
Cory Murphy, PE
San Diego, CA
February 2015
“I can’t imagine designing in Revit without ElectroBIM.”
David Scott, Electrical Design Engineer
Lexington, KY
December 2014
“ElectroBIM saves us time and money.”
Drayton Bailey, CTS-D, LEED Green Assoc.
Salt Lake City, UT
November 2014
"First, it's getting used to Revit and how to deal with that, and then with Design Master, it's actually pretty simple... it's been great.”
Bill Ross, President
Yakima, WA
March 2024
“The automation of feeders, breaker sizing that comes with the software helps eliminate mistakes. The automation of the software calculations allows for it to get it right the first time.”
Eric Baker, VDC Manager
South Bend, IN
December 2023
"We're able to speed up a timeline of a project so we can tell an architect, yeah, it won't take us eight weeks to do it. We can do it in four because we have the assistance of ElectroBIM that keeps it all tied together.”
Michael Bianchi, Electrical Engineer
Peoria, IL
July 2024
“It allows you to make the changes quicker, which is everything in today’s game—do it quicker.”
Beth Mattern, PE, LC, LEED AP
Fort Worth, TX
July 2023
“Now that we have all this stuff dialed in, there’s probably 25% time-saving per project versus the other way using multiple systems.”
Bryan Wayne, PE
El Cajon, CA
May 2023
“Having been at a number of different companies, it always felt like it would’ve been better if we had Design Master, or it was better because we had Design Master.”
Aaron Dennington, PE, LEED AP
Austin, TX
March 2023
“I don’t see how you couldn’t need something like this to be competitive.”
Mark Hoppe
Spokane, WA
January 2023
“It’s allowed me to get where I am today, and propelled me into the market to compete against the big national and international groups.”
Ryan Bertalan, LEED AP, PE
El Cajon, CA
September 2022
“It cut my time by 60% on a project.”
Steve Hamilton
Dallas, TX
May 2022
“Design Master has allowed me to take on a lot more work than I could’ve handled on my own, and that, to me, is so invaluable.”
Jeff Matthews, PE
Tuscon, AZ
November 2021
“Having the calculations performed for us by Design Master only took a few hours. If we had made those revisions manually or with our previous software, it would’ve taken a day.”
Tom Muse, PE
Winston-Salem, NC
September 2021
“When the architect comes and says ‘Hey, we’re gonna change this…’ I’m always the first one back.”
Tim Hansen
Bend, OR
January 2021
“It’s very engineer-friendly and intuitive.”
Andrew Rike, PE
Little Rock, AR
May 2020
“It just makes it more pleasant to come in and do designs.”
Jay Werner
Redmond, WA
March 2020
“Having more control over different parts of the project is always going to be beneficial for us.”
Jason Tapia
Miami, FL
January 2020
“The software also really speeds up revisions, which is a huge convenience for us and our clients.”
Carlos Zarate
Austin, TX
May 2018
“There’s no comparison in terms of how fast we can do a project with Design Master compared with other methods.”
Shane Housh
Cincinnati, OH
February 2018
“Design Master makes it much faster to turn around revisions.”
Eric Aielli, PE
Dayton, OH
August 2017
“Getting Design Master is—by far—the single best thing we have done for our design-build model.”
Tyler Beck, Principal
San Jose, CA
April 2017
“When my clients want to make revisions it’s so much faster with Design Master than in AutoCAD.”
Jim Peacock, PE
Gibsonville, NC
October 2016
“Creation of the panel schedules using Design Master is super quick and efficient.”
Paul Sprong, PE, LEED GA
Newport, KY
January 2016
“There's never a disconnect of information between drawings and schedules.”
Donald Evans, PE
Post Falls, ID
November 2015
“Design Master helps us get projects out the door in a short period of time. It easily doubles our productivity.”
Thomas Hunt, EI
Memphis, TN
October 2015
“Design Master saves us time whenever we need to make a change to a design.”
Rob Pennell, President
Spokane, WA
May 2015
“Design Master lets us make changes and turn revised drawings around for architects much quicker.”
Jason Palmieri, Electrical Designer
East Stroudsburg, PA
March 2015
“Design Master does so much automatically, which accelerates most aspects of the design process, especially calculations.”
Kieran O'Brien, Vice President of Operations
Portland, OR
October 2014
“Thanks to Design Master we can do more jobs faster and increase income.”
Ron Janikowski, Owner
Wausau, WI
August 2014
“Design Master paid for itself on that very first project.”
Greg Mulholland, PE
Lewisville, NC
July 2014
“For me, automatic updates to the panel schedules and equipment schedules are the best thing about the software..”
Lidia Hernandez, designer
Riverside, CA
June 2014
“Anytime you change a device or a circuit you can just tell it to recalculate, and it updates everything for you automatically”
Jesse Babb, PE
Norman, OK
May 2014
“Because we’re able to do more engineering and proposal work in this department thanks to Design Master, we now have a company bottleneck in our estimating department. They can’t estimate as fast as we can design it!”
Wayne Boyd, Engineering and Preconstruction Manager
Lexington, KY
February 2014
“We love Design Master Electrical and find it very cost-effective to own.”
Mark E. Kunch, Vice President
Troy, MI
December 2013
“The great benefit of Design Master for us is the huge amount of time it saves.”
Mark A. Ciarrocca, PE
Wilmington, NC
November 2013
“Design Master brings it all together so one person can do it all—and do it faster. My operation is so efficient now that we even have time to do some local pro bono projects.”
Patrick Fagerman, Principal
Decatur, AL
August 2013
“Design Master saves us an enormous amount of time. It’s safe to say it improves my personal productivity by over 50% right now.”
Scott Kahler, Senior Electrical Designer
Spokane Valley, WA
July 2013
“With Design Master, I can concentrate on the engineering and trust the software to handle the mundane tasks.”
Dana P. Lund, PE
Missoula, MT
April 2013
“Design Master really speeds up our engineering process, especially because we need to make changes and additions to our drawings all the time for clients.”
Anthony Huynh, PE
San Diego, CA
December 2012
“We produce more jobs than firms three or four times our size. That’s mainly because the decrease in design time made possible by Design Master Electrical is just astounding.”
Jim Parker, PE
Anchorage, AK
October 2012
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“Design Master Electrical speeds up and simplifies the whole design process.”
Richard N. Miller, PE
San Francisco, CA
August 2012
“Design Master Electrical is the greatest value for the money of anything that I’ve ever purchased for my company.”
Wayne Beard, President
Lakeland, TN
July 2012
“We chose Design Master because it does what we want, and because the alternatives, especially Autodesk’s Revit and BIM products, were much more expensive and require a lot of computer memory.”
Michael Robertson, PE
Mobile, AL and Gulfport, MS
June 2012
“I can work with a smaller team, make more money, get the projects I want, and turn changes around quickly for clients.”
Dave Jackson, founder
Stockton, CA
September 2011
"Design Master helps streamline our design process so we can accomplish more work in less time, with greater accuracy and improved team coordination."
Angie Hester, CAD Department Manager
Coeur d’Alene, ID
August 2011
"We're doing modeling in the new release of Design Master, which supports 3D views. They've made huge advances with their latest release. Their conduit modeling is the best I've seen."
Gary Edgington, Project Manager
Des Moines, IA
June 2011
"I would not be able to do my job and produce the amount of work that is required of me without Design Master Electrical."
Nick Lisin, Preconstruction Manager
Lexington, KY
May 2011
"Design Master is so easy to use, it’s fun! We’d be hard-pressed to run our business now without it."
W. Chelsae Knight, PE
Centreville, MS
April 2011
"Design Master Electrical has a major impact on our productivity, turnaround time and the accuracy of our drawings. We’re a more profitable company because of it."
Tim Locklear, Principal
San Diego, CA
November 2010
"With Design Master, we’ve never had a job we couldn’t handle."
Don Jewell, Owner
Dubois, PA
October 2010
"Design Master lets me keep my clients happy and our projects on schedule."
Al Bellefleur, Electrical Contractor
Bloomfield, CT
September 2010
We have found the immense time savings, which of course directly impacts profit, renders Design Master the software of choice for our construction related electrical engineering and design.
Dave Joesting, Designer
Fort Thomas, KY
October 2006
"Using Design Master, I did a three story
project over the Thanksgiving weekend. It took me less than sixteen
man-hours to have the drawings ready for printing. After the review, it took
me less than three hours to have all the errors corrected and ready for
final printing."
Richard Dennehy, Estimator/Designer
San Antonio, Texas
December 2005
"I have fewer errors, fewer reviews, and my design time has been cut at least in half. I couldn’t be happier."
Ed Harrell, Designer
Yorba Linda, California
May 2004
"I was able to use Design Master to meet the owner/engineers needs in a very short time, basically recreating the design effort of a month in a 3 day time period."
Howard Erskine, Senior Designer
Pensacola, Florida
October 2003
"This program has made our designs so streamlined that we were actually
able to eliminate a draftsman position. We can now literally design a
project in less than half the time it used to take."
Lee Gusmus, Designer
Memphis, Tennessee
September 2003
“I finished it in about 45 minutes. … Shot him a PDF just before we got on the horn, he asked how I did it. I said, ‘That’s for me to know and you to find out.’”
Bill Philcox, PE
Middletown, NJ
September 2020
“Design Master HVAC lets me design so much faster and more efficiently that I can compete directly with bigger firms.”
Adrienne Gould-Choquette, PE
Sarasota, FL
June 2015
“Design Master HVAC is definitely the most user-friendly engineering design software I’ve seen.”
Will Davis, EIT
Eau Claire, WI
April 2014
“Any changes you have to make to a design are also much easier with Design Master.”
Michael Holland, Mechanical Engineer
Montgomery, AL
April 2012
"The current functionality of Revit MEP is much slower than what Design Master is capable of at this time."
Joshua Lukacs, Senior Project Manager
San Bernardino, CA
February 2011
“Design Master probably saves me up to 20% on my time over the process I was using before.”
Dave Saarem
Carson City, NV
July 2022
“Design Master has been able to help us produce a much better product in much less time.”
Mike Stroud, PE, LEED AP
Greenville, NC
January 2022
“There was some new stuff, but I did not forget, at all. I picked it up like nothing had happened.”
Nick Vrettos, PE
Charlotte, NC
March 2021
“Design Master gives us a big competitive advantage by saving time and eliminating errors.”
Will Kidd
Dallas, TX
July 2016
“Design Master Electrical and Design Master Mechanical are great time-savers and eliminate a lot of errors.”
Tom Thornburgh, PE
Englewood, FL
April 2016
“Design Master makes us much more efficient, which makes us more competitive, which equals more work.”
Ron Unnerstall, PE
Washington, MO
September 2014
“Design Master simplifies the design process because it takes care of so many things automatically. It lets me focus my attention on the design, rather than developing the documentation and tracking calculations.”
J. Mosby West, PE
Irvington, VA
September 2013
“Design Master enables us to do more with the same resources, and to work ‘leaner and meaner’.”
Mark Strickland, Owner
Jackson, MO
May 2012
“I can’t praise Design Master enough. It cuts the time it takes to produce our designs by about 90%. The software has saved us from having to hire four or five different people.”
Paul Kenney, PE, CEO
Atlanta, GA
February 2012
“Design Master Software has helped our business to keep going and make a profit in situations where our competitors just couldn’t--that’s been a huge asset.”
Crawford Murphy, Founder
Canton, GA
December 2011
“What brought me back to Design Master was the higher productivity it offers for a small operation like mine. I don't have a staff of CAD people to help me work with a cumbersome application like AutoCAD MEP or Revit.”
David Webb, Owner
Mebane, NC
October 2011
"After drawings go out for bid and come back through the addendum process, the quick turnaround on changes is the biggest time-saver for me."
Matthew Crowl, Design/CAD Technician
Ankeny, IA
July 2011
"It allows us to charge less and give more to our clients: one of those beautiful things in life."
Zachary Rohlfs, Staff Engineer
Norwich, CT
January 2011
"The great thing about Design Master is that you can be designing as you're drawing. It speeds the whole process up tremendously"
Joe Green, Owner
Augusta, GA
December 2010
"Where I feel Design Master separates itself from the competition
is their customer support. They are very dedicated to making sure Design
Master is working for their clients."
Ron McClane, CAD Manager
Fayetteville, Arkansas
June 2003
“It explained lighting better than anything I had done in the past.”
Meggan Masters
Apex, NC
November 2020
“Design Master Photometrics is very economical to own and pays for itself over and over in terms of time saved.”
Jason M. Bachtell, HLD’s Staff/Electrical Engineer
Hagerstown, MD
July 2017
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“Design Master Photometrics saves us significant time and streamlines our overall workflow versus outsourcing the lighting designs.”
Gabrielle Bovard, Architectural Designer
Pittsburgh, PA
April 2015
“This product will save you time and money every time you use it, and make it easy to deal with changes.”
John J. Murphy, Jr., PE
Rockland, MA
October 2013
“Now I can, within one day, complete a site lighting plan. This has a positive bottom-line impact on the whole job.”
Jeremy S. Fields, PE
Blountville, TN
May 2013
“We were working in the software within a few hours and producing lighting plans by the end of that first day.”
Jim Miller, Senior Designer/Project Manager
Grand Junction, CO
September 2012
"All the principals here are very satisfied with the Design Master software, and we all feel it was a good decision to start doing lighting design ourselves."
Robert Woodman, Project Engineer
South Portland, ME
March 2011
