From equipment list to issued design — in one living model.
Facility Connect models every asset and point of connection as a first-class object inside a scenario, for any service your project defines. Below: the four stages that matter most, with the real screens your teams will actually use.
Model the facility.
Import your equipment list from a spreadsheet — with a live progress bar on big files — or build assets from reusable templates. Every asset gets its components, points of connection, and a place in the building: level, grid line, coordinates.
Spreadsheet import, made legible
Download a typed template, fill it offline, upload it back. Row-by-row progress, then a full report of what was created, updated, or flagged.
Your data model, not ours
Define your own asset types, disciplines, and utility types — then extend them with custom fields, including live calculated formulas.
Plan in what-if scenarios.
Every project starts with a protected Baseline. Branch what-if scenarios from it to explore options — each one carrying its own placements, connections, and install / de-install dates — and switch between them with one picker in the top bar.
Time is part of the model
Each asset's install and removal dates live in the scenario, so load doesn't just add up — it comes on and off over the life of the build.
Compare without losing the plan
Branch, explore, and throw away what doesn't work — the Baseline is never at risk. Dashboards compare scenarios side by side.
Assign every load to a supply.
Work through the demand queue and wire each load to a panel, circuit, or header — with limit, peak, and headroom signals live on every candidate supply, and loads corrected by diversity factors so you're planning against realistic peak demand, not inflated sums.
Rule-assisted assignment
Matching rules per utility type filter and score candidate supplies, so the right panel surfaces first. Cable sizing applies real-world derating; electrical systems get fault-level checks.
The Optimizer, when the puzzle gets big
Available today as a service — it computes the ideal assignment of loads to supplies, lays out the network, and lands the result in a scenario for your team to review. In-product in the coming months.
Publish, coordinate, report.
Publishing seals an asset's revision — read-only forever, with the issued Excel generated on the spot and filed into Autodesk Construction Cloud. Design keeps moving on a fresh working revision; if anyone edits something sealed, the model forks a new revision automatically so history is never rewritten.
Change control, one click at a time
Raise an issue, attach a formal connection-change proposal, get it accepted — then apply it into the design with one click, conflict-checked and fully attributed.
Reports the whole team reads
Load vs. time, capacity headroom across every system, a drag-and-drop pivot report builder with CSV export, and dashboards that compare scenarios side by side.