MEP Takeoff Services, Delivered by AI in Minutes
The deliverable you would get from an outsourced takeoff bureau — device counts, conduit, duct and pipe lengths, every line referenced to its sheet — without the turnaround wait. Priced per set, in your currency.
MEP takeoff services produce the quantities an estimator needs to price a mechanical, electrical or plumbing bid — device and fixture counts, panel and equipment schedules, and conduit, cable, duct and pipe lengths — from the tender drawings. Aginera delivers that same output from a PDF or CAD plan set in minutes: the AI classifies every sheet by trade, counts and measures each component, reconciles plans against schedules, and links every quantity to the sheet it came from, so your estimator reviews instead of counts.
Outsourced takeoff bureau vs. Aginera
Contractors send drawings out for takeoff because counting is slow, not because they want to wait. Here is what changes when the counting is done by AI in your own workspace.
| Takeoff service bureau | Aginera | |
|---|---|---|
| Turnaround | 2–5 working days per set, longer at tender peaks | Minutes for a typical set; large sets run in the background |
| How you pay | Per hour or per sheet, quoted per job | Per set: free to start, $5 / $19 add-ons, credit packs that never expire |
| Evidence | A spreadsheet; questions go back by email | Every line links to its sheet and location; low-confidence lines are flagged |
| Revisions and addenda | Re-quoted and re-queued | Re-run the changed sheets; compare against the previous takeoff |
| Who sees your drawings | An outsourced team | Your own workspace; nothing leaves the platform |
| Currency | Usually USD or INR | Local-currency checkout including AED and QAR |
Bureau turnaround and pricing models are typical published terms as of September 2026; individual firms vary.
What the takeoff actually returns
Real runs on real plan sets. No customer names; the numbers are the numbers.
125 runs · 1,240 LF
Plumbing — underground DWV runs traced and measured
On a single underground drainage sheet of a multifamily set, the AI traced 125 pipe runs totalling 1,240 linear feet. Across the full 38-sheet document it measured 461 runs and roughly 5,500 LF — every run drawn back onto the plan so the estimator can see what was counted.
See the plumbing takeoff page →81 circuits · 3 panels · 2,503 LF conduit
Electrical — circuits, panels and conduit from a power set
From a commercial power sheet set, 81 circuits across 3 panels were extracted and 2,503 linear feet of conduit routed after estimator review — the same pass that produced the takeoff also produced the 3D routing, so the two agree.
See the electrical takeoff page →24/24 WCs · 24/24 basins · 8/8 pumps
Gulf tender set — sanitary fixtures matched the BOQ
On a Qatar residential tender package (six apartment blocks, A1 sheets with no text layer), the advanced AI run matched the bill of quantities exactly on water closets, wash basins, kitchen sinks and pumps, and read the health-centre electrical sheets to within one luminaire of the BOQ.
UAE and Gulf resources →How the service works
Upload once. Review the flagged lines. Export the BOQ.
Upload the tender set
Drop the PDF (or DWG) plan set. Sheets are classified by trade automatically — electrical, mechanical/HVAC, plumbing, fire protection — including A1 tender sheets with outlined text and no text layer.
AI performs the takeoff
Devices, panels, fixtures and equipment are counted from the plans and reconciled against schedules; conduit, cable tray, duct and pipe runs are traced and measured. Every quantity is linked to the sheet and location it came from.
Review and export the BOQ
Lines with lower confidence are flagged for your estimator to confirm. Export to Excel or CSV as metric quantities ready to price, or price them in Aginera and build the estimate.
200 free AI credits on sign-up. No card, no seat licence.
What a takeoff costs
Service bureaus quote per hour or per sheet, per job. Aginera prices per set, and the credits you buy never expire.
Free
200 AI credits on sign-up
Enough to read a first plan set and see the takeoff on your own drawings.
$5 · $19
Per-document add-ons
$5 for 25 more AI-vision pages; $19 for an advanced AI run of a full set.
$50 – $500
Credit packs
1,000 credits for $50, 2,000 for $100, 10,000 for $500. Credits never expire.
Checkout is in your local currency where supported — including AED and QAR (Saudi accounts are billed in USD today) — so a Gulf contractor is not paying a foreign-currency surcharge to read a tender set. Full pricing →
Built for UAE, Saudi and Qatar tender drawings
Gulf tender packages have habits that trip up generic takeoff tools: A1 sheets exported with outlined text and no text layer, landscape plots saved sideways in a portrait PDF, existing-building sheets where only the devices inside the dashed scope-of-work boxes are new, and BOQs structured to FIDIC bills rather than CSI divisions.
Aginera reads these sets visually when there is no text to parse, detects and corrects sheet orientation, keeps existing distribution boards out of the priced scope by flagging them for review, and returns metric quantities (nr, m, m², kg) that drop straight into a FIDIC-style BOQ priced in AED or QAR.
UAE / Dubai
DEWA electrical conventions, Dubai Municipality compliance, FIDIC BOQ line items.
UAE hub and resources →Saudi Arabia
Saudi Building Code (SBC) and SEC connection requirements; giga-project drawing volumes.
PDF to CAD for Saudi drawings →Qatar
Kahramaa electrical standards; tender packages benchmarked against real BOQs.
PDF to CAD for Gulf drawings →Frequently Asked Questions
Is this an MEP takeoff service or software?
Both, in the sense that matters to an estimator: you upload a plan set and receive a finished, sheet-referenced quantity takeoff — the same deliverable an outsourced takeoff bureau sends back — but it is produced by AI in minutes rather than by a team over several days, and you pay per set instead of per hour or per sheet. Your estimator reviews the flagged lines; nobody re-keys anything.
How long does an MEP takeoff take?
A typical 40–100 sheet commercial set is processed in minutes, not the 2–5 working days a service bureau usually quotes. Larger sets run in the background and you are emailed when the takeoff is ready.
What does an MEP takeoff cost?
There is no seat licence and no monthly plan required. You start with 200 free AI credits, which reads a first plan set. Per-document add-ons are $5 for 25 more AI-vision pages and $19 for an advanced AI run of a full set; credit packs are $50 for 1,000 credits, $100 for 2,000 and $500 for 10,000, and credits never expire. Checkout is in your local currency where we support it, including AED and QAR; Saudi accounts are billed in USD today.
Which trades and drawing types are covered?
Electrical (lighting and power layouts, panel and DB schedules, fire alarm, low-current, single-line diagrams), mechanical/HVAC (duct layouts, equipment schedules, piping), plumbing (water, drainage, fixtures, schedules) and fire protection. Structural steel and sheet-metal fabrication drawings are handled by their own extractors.
Does it work with Gulf tender drawings and FIDIC-style BOQs?
Yes. Quantities are produced in metric units (nr, m, m², kg) so they drop into a FIDIC-style Bill of Quantities, and A1 tender sheets exported without a text layer — common in UAE, Saudi and Qatar tender packages — are read visually, including sheets plotted sideways in the PDF. Distribution boards that belong to the existing building are flagged for review rather than priced as new.
What happens to my drawings?
Drawings are stored in your own workspace, are never used as public samples, and are deleted on request. Extraction runs on our infrastructure; nothing is sent to a third-party takeoff team.
Can I get the takeoff as a CAD file too?
If the PDF is vector, the free PDF to CAD converter turns it into an editable DWG or DXF, and the takeoff can be run on the same upload. Scanned drawings are read visually for the takeoff but cannot be converted to CAD.
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