Contact
Send it at the end of your day. The answer is there before you start the next one.
Our working day runs while yours is closed, which is the one part of being eleven and a half hours away that works in your favor. Drawings that arrive Tuesday afternoon are read, scoped and priced overnight.
Fixed-fee proposal in 24 hours
- From the moment we have the drawings or the design package. Standard single-building scopes are usually back the next morning, your time.
Read by an engineer, not a queue
- Every first inquiry comes to me personally. You will not be routed, qualified or handed to a sales team — there isn’t one.
Nothing opens until you say so
- Our mutual NDA is below if you’d like one in place first.
Three ways in
Pick whichever one you actually are
Most firms reach us at one of three points. They need different things from us, so they get different
routes rather than one form that suits none of them.
Most common
I have a project. Price it.
Send the architectural background, a narrative, or a previous set — whatever you have. We come back with a fixed fee, a schedule and a named engineer. No discovery call required first, and no charge for the proposal.
Route 2
I want to talk to someone first.
Fifteen minutes with the founder. Bring the awkward questions — who owns the model, what happens when a reviewer rejects a sheet, how we handle a week where everything lands at once.
Route 3
I’m not ready. Send me something to read.
The capability statement, a sample drawing set and our NDA template. No form, no email address required, nothing sitting in a drip campaign afterwards.
Route 1
Send a project for a fixed-fee quote
Five fields, three of them required. If you attach drawings, the rest answers itself — the building type, the size
and the jurisdiction are already in your title block, and we’d rather read them than make you type them.
What happens after you press send
Eastern, Central and Pacific shown — pick the row for your own clock.
Immediately
A plain confirmation email listing the files we received, so you have a record of exactly what left your office.
Within 4 working hours
I read it myself and reply — either with the fee, or with the one or two things still missing. Our working day runs overnight on your clock, so anything sent during your afternoon is answered overnight.
Within 24 hours
Fixed-fee proposal: scope by discipline, sheet list, schedule with the issue date, and the engineer who’ll run it. Healthcare, multi-building and power systems studies can take a second day — we’ll tell you upfront if so.
Only then, a call
If you want one. Fifteen minutes to walk the proposal, or skip it and issue a PO. Plenty of firms start without ever speaking to us.
Before you send anything
Your files go to one company machine, under a signed NDA if you want one in place first, and are never passed to a third party. Download the mutual NDA, sign it, and send it with the project — or ask and we’ll counter-sign yours instead.
What happens to your files
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You are about to send a client’s confidential documents to a company you found on the internet. That deserves a
straight answer rather than a privacy-policy link.
You get your own login
- A private login to our server with access to your projects only — CAD files, PDFs and calculations, downloadable any time without asking us. Or we work inside your ACC or BIM 360, whichever you prefer. Your drawings are never passed to a third party, a freelancer or an offshore sub-pool.
On company equipment only
- No personal laptops, no personal cloud accounts, no USB drives leaving the building. Licensed software on every seat — which also means your model never carries an unlicensed-origin flag.
Deleted when you ask
- Project files are retained for twelve months after final issue in case you need a reissue, then deleted. Ask earlier and we delete earlier, and confirm it in writing.
NDA before, not after
- Our mutual NDA is downloadable above — sign it and send it with the project. Or send yours and we’ll counter-sign; we’ve yet to see a reasonable one we wouldn’t.
Route 3
Take something away, give nothing up
No email gate on any of these. On the page where we’re the unknown quantity, charging you an email address
for a PDF is the wrong side of the trade.
Capability statement
Four pages. Scope by discipline, codes and standards we work to, software, turnaround, commercial terms and entity details. The document a principal actually circulates internally.
Sample drawing set
A full M/E/P sheet set with the client stripped out — title block, schedules, legends, riser and one plan sheet per discipline. Sent the same day you ask, under a mutual NDA.
Mutual NDA template
Fourteen clauses, mutual in both directions, no clause that only protects us. Read it before you send anything — it tells you more about how we operate than this page does.
Route 2
Fifteen minutes, with the person who’ll run your work
Not a discovery call and not a pitch. You ask what you need to ask, I answer, and if we’re not the right fit I’ll say so on the call rather than in a follow-up sequence.
8:30 – 11:00 am ET
7:30–10:00 CT · 5:30–8:00 PT, Mon–Fri
Our evening — 6:00 – 8:30 pm India, same day. The discipline lead on your project can join this one.
9:00 – 11:00 pm ET
Our morning — 6:30 – 8:30 am India, next day. Useful if your day is already full by eight.
Outside those windows
Ask. I’ll take a call in the middle of my night if the timing matters to you. What I won’t do is claim the whole team is on U.S. hours when they aren’t — the engineering day in Ahmedabad runs 9:30 am – 6:30 pm India, and pretending otherwise would fall apart in week one.
Hemin Shah
Book a slot
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The number above reaches me, not a receptionist. If I’m asleep it goes to voicemail and I call back within the working day. Some principals never want a call at all, which is a perfectly good way to work with us.
Once a project is live, you and your team correspond with the engineer doing the work directly — by name, by email, no ticket number. I’m copied on every thread, so when you need a date moved or a fee revised you aren’t explaining the project to me from the beginning.
Who to write to
Two addresses, and what each one is for
New projects, quotes, fee revisions, schedule changes, complaints, and anything you’d rather say to the owner. Comes to me and nobody else.
Invoices, W-8BEN, remittance advice, purchase orders and vendor-onboarding paperwork. Send your vendor forms here and they come back the same day. If your system asks for a W-9: the LLC is foreign-owned, so W-8BEN is the correct form.
Once a project is live, any member of your team emails the engineer on it directly — we publish their addresses at kickoff, so live work never queues behind a shared inbox. The only standing rule is that I’m copied, and that project decisions go in writing rather than over a phone call nobody else heard.
Before you ask
The five questions that arrive with almost every first email
Do I need an NDA in place before I send drawings?
Not from our side — we treat everything you send as confidential whether or not anything is signed. But if your client agreement requires one, download ours above, or send yours and we’ll counter-sign it. Of our current clients, most work with us without one.
What’s the minimum you need to quote?
An architectural background and a sentence about scope is enough for a ballpark. For a firm fixed fee: the background, the phase, the jurisdiction, and either a sheet list or a previous set of yours on a similar building so we can match your output. A narrative helps; its absence doesn’t stop us.
Do you charge for the proposal?
No. No charge for the fee proposal, the code check behind it, or a call to discuss it. We’d rather lose the hour than have you pay for one.
Can you start this week?
Usually. Two-day turnarounds are a normal part of the week rather than an emergency. Tell us the date you need and we’ll tell you straight whether we can hold it.
Can we start with something small?
Please do. Most of our long-term accounts began with one modest set — a tenant fit-out, a single-discipline sheet package, a plan-review response. Judging the drawings is faster and more reliable than judging the conversation, and a small first project is the cheapest due diligence available to you.
Company details
NexMEP Global LLC
- U.S. limited liability company Primary U.S. business address: Austin, Texas
Engineering center
- Every first inquiry comes to me personally. You will not be routed, qualified or handed to a sales team — there isn’t one.
On request
- W-8BEN · certificate of organization · client references · sample sets under mutual NDA