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AI Drafting for Healthcare Projects

Healthcare sets carry more rules per room than any other building type: receptacle counts per bed, branch-by-branch essential power, medical gas outlets, pressure relationships, and a health system standard on top of the code. Nomic drafts patient room, exam room, and department plans in CAD in your standards and the owner's, then checks each room against NEC Article 517, NFPA 99, and the FGI Guidelines before your engineer reviews and stamps.

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Last reviewed: November 2026

You send

  • Architectural department plans and room data sheets
  • The health system design standards and headwall details
  • Existing panel schedules and site walk photos for renovations
  • The infection control risk assessment and phasing plan
  • The code and FGI editions the jurisdiction adopts

Nomic hands back

  • Enlarged patient, exam, and procedure room plans as DWG files
  • Power, lighting, and medical gas plans by department
  • Essential electrical system panel schedules in Excel and on the sheet
  • Phasing and infection control plans for renovations
  • Findings labeled by code, FGI, or owner standard
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On the sheet

Life Safety Plan, annotated

A life safety plan with rated walls, occupant loads, and the exit access path checked against the travel limit.

  1. 1Rated corridor walls
  2. 2Exit access path with travel distance
  3. 3Exit sign at the stair
  4. 4Occupant load per room

The problem

A patient room is four drawings and three codes

A med-surg patient room puts power, nurse call, medical gas, lighting, and HVAC on one headwall, and every element answers to a rule. NEC 517.18 sets eight receptacles per general care bed, fed from both the critical branch and the normal system, the FGI Guidelines set the minimum oxygen and vacuum outlets, and the health system standard sets which receptacles are red, where the patient lift goes, and how the headwall is arranged. Draft one room wrong and the mistake repeats across 36 beds on the unit.

Most healthcare work is renovation inside a building that stays open. Drawings have to show phasing, infection control barriers, which panels serve the life safety, critical, and equipment branches, and which existing circuits get reused. The owner's facilities team reviews against its own standards, in many states a health department reviews against the FGI edition it adopts, and both sets of comments land on the same sheets.

01 / Room typicals

Patient and exam room typicals drawn to the owner standard

Send the department plans, the room data sheets, and the health system design standards. Nomic lays out each room type on an enlarged plan, keeps same-handed rooms same-handed, and places the typicals across the unit with the headwall on the wall the architect drew.

  • Headwall receptacles split between critical and normal branches
  • Medical gas outlets placed from the room data sheets
  • Nurse call, data, and patient TV located per the owner standard
02 / Essential power

Essential electrical system branches kept straight

Nomic tracks which panels serve the life safety, critical, and equipment branches and circuits each load to the branch your engineer's criteria and NEC Article 517 call for. Where an existing panel is reused, Nomic reads its directory and the site walk photos before assigning new loads to it.

  • Life safety, critical, and equipment branch panels kept separate
  • Branch assignment checked for every load
  • Spare spaces in existing panels read from site walk photos
03 / Self-check

Checked against NFPA 99, FGI, and the health system standard

Nomic checks its rooms against the code and FGI editions the jurisdiction adopts, then against the owner standard. Findings that only the owner standard raises are labeled that way, so your engineer can tell which comments a state reviewer would also make.

  • Receptacle counts and branch circuits per patient care space
  • Medical gas outlet counts against the room type
  • Infection control phasing and barriers shown on renovation sheets

Checked against

The code and documents behind every sheet

Name the editions the project is designed to and Nomic checks its own drawing against them before handing it back. Your engineer or architect of record makes the final call and stamps the set.

  • NEC Article 517
  • NFPA 99 Health Care Facilities Code
  • FGI Guidelines for hospitals and outpatient facilities
  • ASHRAE 170 ventilation of health care facilities
  • NFPA 101 health care occupancy chapters
  • The health system design standards

How it works

From a sentence to a stamped set

  1. Step 1

    Ask for the drawing

    Say what the sheet needs to show and attach the backgrounds, markups, cutsheets, or photos. A sentence is enough to start.

  2. Step 2

    Nomic drafts it in CAD

    Nomic works in CAD on its own computer, on your layers and blocks, following how your firm drew the same thing before. It saves real DWG files to the project.

  3. Step 3

    Nomic checks its own work

    The drawing is checked against the code editions you name and the source documents. Everything Nomic drew is clouded, and open questions are listed.

  4. Step 4

    Your team reviews and stamps

    Your engineers and architects review the clouded changes, make the final call, and issue the set under their own stamp.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Yes. Nomic works in CAD on its own computer and saves DWG files for patient rooms, exam rooms, departments, and renovation phases. It lays out each room type from the room data sheets and owner standard, then checks the result against NEC Article 517, NFPA 99, and the FGI Guidelines before your engineer reviews it.

No. Your engineer sets the essential electrical system arrangement, the transfer switches, and the branch criteria. Nomic circuits loads to those criteria, checks them against NEC Article 517, and lists any load it could not place so the engineer makes the final call.

Attach the standard and the typical headwall details, and Nomic follows them for receptacle colors, device locations, nurse call, and data. Findings that come only from the owner standard are labeled separately from code findings.

Nomic drafts phasing plans, temporary barriers, and demolition sheets from the infection control risk assessment and the phasing narrative your team provides. The infection control requirements themselves come from the owner and the assessment, and your team reviews every phase.

No. Nomic is a new source of drafting capacity. Your engineer of record reviews and stamps the drawings, and the state or local review happens the same way it does today.

No. Nomic works in CAD on its own computer and saves DWG files you open in AutoCAD or any DWG editor. On hospitals modeled in Revit, Nomic delivers DWGs and change lists your modelers link into the model.

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