The New Engineer
THE NEW ENGINEER

Give your AI the skills of an HVAC engineer

Two clicks. A free Claude account is enough.

Once connected, your assistant calls on our HVAC calculations whenever your question needs them, and gives you a quantified, justified result without leaving the conversation.

Built by engineers, not by an AI reading standards

Every tool comes from engineers who design and commission these installations. The rules it applies are the ones that hold on site: the assumptions a project actually rests on, the standard sizes you can buy, the limits a manufacturer states. So the answer is not a paraphrase of a standard — it is a figure you can defend, with the formula behind it and the assumption it rests on.

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.

Connect Claude

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

Connector address https://thenewengineer.com/mcp

  1. Add the connector

    In Claude, open Customize › Connectors, click “+” then Add custom connector. Name it The New Engineer and paste the address above.

    Open Claude's connectors ↗

  2. 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.

    The first time, Claude asks for permission to use the connector: choose “Always allow”, otherwise it will ask again with every question.

    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.

Going further: an agent that works on its own

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.

  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"
      }
    }
  }
}