Since 1975, Valley Regional Medical Center has offered critical health services across more than 25 specialties to the community in Brownsville, Texas. After decades of use, the hospital’s existing cooling towers and piping displayed signs of deterioration. While maintenance teams performed work to control leaking, a replacement was necessary to prevent system failure.

Ralph Schoch, software, technology, and internal support manager in the virtual design and construction (VDC) department at Victaulic, discusses the advantages of model-based estimating, examines a few of the company’s AutoCAD tools, and more.