Will Hevacomp be merged with AECOsim Energy Simulator?

Greg Bentley has been talking about the concept of 'Analytical Modeling'. I think that he is refering to the increasing need to include simulation or analytical tools as part of any design app.

There are already a number of Bentley apps that do this:

• WaterGEMS includes tools to simulate flows etc to give the engineer/designer feedback as he designs his sewer network.
• Minecyle builds in quantification and scheduling tools to give the engineer/designer feedback as he designs his excavations.
• Plantwise also builds in quantification and domain expert rules for FEED.
• Maxsurf has all kinds of tools to calculate and visualise stability and other hydrodynamic impacts as part of the design package.
• Maxsurf and WaterGems' Darwin can use cloud-based genetic algorithm tools with Bentley Scenario Services to provide a lot feedback and explore large multi-dimensional design spaces.
• OpenBridge Modeler has a bi-directional link with an analysis package in the works.
• AECOsim BD's Structural Modeler has some rudimentary analytical frame modeling tools that allows it pass the model to STAAD/RAM via ISM.
• AECOsim BD SS6 also now has a conenction to AECOsim Energy Simulator via an ASM that is built up in Aecosim BD.

Looking at Hevacomp, I wonder why Hevacomp hasn't been integrated into AES or ABD. Integration of Hevacomp Electrical and Mechnical Designer into ABD would be escpecially productive. There doesn't seem to be very good integration of any analytical tools in the ABD, which results in ABD being used as a 3d drafting tool which is used by the MEP modelers to whack in a design based on something handed to them on paper. No feedback, no quick 'simulations' to check the ineveitable changes are performing adequately and no automated reporting or re-use on the next job.

There is a lot of huff and puff about the BIM being where all the information and intelligence is. From what I have seen, if there is any intelligence at all, it is not really in the 'BIM' geometry model, but at best in a separate disconnected analytical model and at worst on scraps of paper.