TheNewEngineerHVAC - MEP
THE NEW ENGINEER

Give your AI the skills and reliability of an HVAC engineer

Two clicks. A free Claude account, or ChatGPT, is enough.

Once connected, your assistant calls on our HVAC calculation engines whenever your prompt needs them. Your LLM gives you a quantified, justified result without leaving the conversation.

Works withClaudeChatGPTOpenClaw

Tools written and proven by engineers

Our tools compute on the data your models contain. The AI only steps in to make up for gaps in the model or approximations in the modelling. The calculations are reliable and can be checked: download the calculation files generated automatically.

We recommend Claude: it accepts a custom connector even on a free account.

Connector address https://thenewengineer.com/mcp

  1. Open Settings › Connectors

    In Claude, click your name at the bottom left, then Settings. In the left column, under Customize, choose Connectors. Click “+ Add” at the top right, then Add custom connector.

    Open Claude's connectors ↗
    Claude Settings, Connectors page, with the + Add button

  2. Name it and paste the address

    In the first field, type a name, for example The New Engineer. In the second, paste the address above: https://thenewengineer.com/mcp. Click Continue: the connector appears in your list with a check mark.

    Add custom connector dialog, name and address filled in

  3. Allow its tools

    Click thenewengineer.com in the list. Under Tool permissions, set both groups – Interactive tools and Read-only tools – to Always allow. Otherwise Claude asks your permission at every question.

    Connector page, Tool permissions set to Always allow

  4. Turn it on and ask

    In a conversation, click “+” at the bottom left, then Connectors, and switch on The New Engineer. Then ask your question as you would a colleague.

    For example Size the expansion vessel for a 1,500-litre heating system, 70/50 °C, 14 m static height, safety valve set at 3 bar.

Claude's free plan accepts one custom connector. Once added on the web, it is also available in the desktop and mobile apps. Using another assistant? Our connector is built on MCP, an open protocol: any MCP-compatible AI can use the same address.

Scope: building services — heating, air conditioning, building cooling, data centres and plant rooms. Cold rooms, food refrigeration and industrial process cooling are a different trade, and the tools say so rather than answer for them.

ChatGPT accepts a custom connector on paid plans only — Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise and Edu — through its developer mode, in the web version.

Connector address https://thenewengineer.com/mcp

  1. Turn on developer mode

    In ChatGPT, open Settings › Apps & Connectors › Advanced settings and switch on Developer mode. OpenAI moves this switch from time to time: if it is not there, look under Settings › Security.

    Open ChatGPT's settings ↗

  2. Create the connector

    Back in Apps & Connectors, click Create. Name it The New Engineer, paste the address above, leave authentication off, and save.

  3. Turn it on and ask

    In a new conversation, click “+” in the message box, then More › Developer mode, and tick The New Engineer. Then ask your question as you would a colleague.

In a conversation, the AI answers when you ask. OpenClaw goes further: it is an open-source agent that runs on your own machine, keeps the context of your projects and chains tasks together without you guiding each step. Connected to our skills, it can for example run a series of sizings and hand you a summary note.

What is OpenClaw?

  • It runs at your placeAn open-source agent you install on your own computer or server. Your projects and files stay with you.
  • It answers where you already areYou talk to it from WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord or Signal, with the AI model of your choice.
  • It works without youIt chains tasks, keeps the context of your projects and can run them on a schedule, every morning or every week.

For example, in Telegram“Size the expansion vessel for 2,400 L of water, highest point 18 m above the vessel, and send me the calculation note.” The agent calls our calculation, then replies with the figures and their formulas.

  1. Install OpenClaw

    Follow the official installation guide. If OpenClaw is already running, skip to step 2.

    OpenClaw documentation ↗

  2. Add our skills

    One command in a terminal:

    openclaw mcp add thenewengineer \
  --url https://thenewengineer.com/mcp \
  --transport streamable-http

    Or simply ask your agent to add the remote MCP server “thenewengineer” at that address.

  3. Check the connection

    openclaw mcp doctor thenewengineer --probe

    The command lists the available calculations. From now on, your agent uses them whenever a task calls for them.

Prefer editing the configuration file? 
{
  "mcp": {
    "servers": {
      "thenewengineer": {
        "url": "https://thenewengineer.com/mcp",
        "transport": "streamable-http"
      }
    }
  }
}