Course
MEP Coalition: Membership Insights, Advocacy Update & Roundtable
Date: Thursday, November 13, 2025
Time: 12:00–1:00 PM ET
Format: Virtual (Zoom)
Presented by: MEP Coalition Executive Committee
Who can attend: Open to all ACEC members. No charge for members.
Are you a Mechanical, Electrical, or Plumbing professional looking to connect with ACEC peers and access resources tailored to MEP firms? Join us for a fast-paced session that highlights membership benefits, shows you where to find MEP-specific resources, provides a brief advocacy update on issues impacting MEP practice, and invites you into an interactive roundtable to share your needs and shape future programming.
What to Expect
- Membership overview (what you can use now): Quick tour of current programs, peer connections, education offerings, and ways to engage as an MEP professional.
- Advocacy update (what’s changing and why it matters): Snapshot of federal and state policy trends affecting MEP firms from Nando Gomez, ACEC Senior Vice President of Energy and External Affairs (codes & standards, procurement, energy policy, building performance, and contracting).
- Resource navigation (where to find things): A walkthrough of where MEP content lives in ACEC (practice tools, recordings, upcoming sessions) and how to access it.
- Interactive roundtable: Moderated discussion with Q&A and live polling to surface needs and shape 2026 programming.
- Likely discussion topics: Building codes & performance standards, electrification & decarbonization, BIM/VDC workflows and data handoff, QA/QC and risk management, design-build & progressive delivery, AI-enabled design productivity, life-safety and commissioning, and workforce/training needs.
Whether you’re brand-new to ACEC’s MEP community or already engaged, you’ll leave with clear next steps to plug in and get value
Not yet part of the Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing (MEP) Coalition community?
Get started by logging into your ACEC account, navigating to My Account > My Coalitions > All Coalitions, and selecting Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing (MEP).