When a building services practice is sold
MEP engineering firm for sale: what happens to the drawings
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A sale or a retirement is the moment a building services firm's archive is most at risk of being shredded or forgotten. It can be licensed separately from the practice, or go with it to a buyer, provided the firm still holds the rights.
Records as part of the sale
A buyer of the practice takes the firm's copyright only if the sale agreement assigns it in writing. Where the archive is licensed for training instead, the firm can keep ownership and grant a licence for that use alone.
Before the servers are switched off
Export the models, calculations and issued sets before any subscription lapses. Trimble's offering terms say the customer will not have access to its data after the subscription term ends.
Source: MEP software terms on an engineer's data, vendor by vendor
Organisations asking for records
Our buyer table lists the organisations whose own pages ask for engineering and project records, what each asks for and how a firm reaches it.
Source: Who asks MEP and engineering firms for their project records