SAN DIEGO, CA – August 12, 2009 – Trade Service, the leading provider of product and pricing solutions for the construction industry, announced today that it has formed a strategic partnership with EastCoast CAD/CAM, the HVAC, sheet metal, piping, and plumbing industry’s premier developer of a comprehensive Autodesk®-based suite of  “design to fabrication” software.  Through this partnership, the emerging leader of building software, and the industry’s most popular provider of product and pricing content, bring to market a total mechanical contractor solution.

EastCoast is now able to provide its clients with the ability to instantly connect to TRA-SER® Premier, Trade Service’s electronic product and pricing software, from its 3D AutoCAD-MEP fabrication software.  TRA-SER contains more than 1.5 million items, images, and manufacturer catalog pages, and provides the specific information contractors would utilize within their internal project budgeting processes to ensure that they are managing their cost of materials as cost-effectively as possible.

And, as Autodesk’s exclusive software provider of HVAC and mechanical software tools and content for all of Autodesk’s MEP CAD platforms, including AutoCAD MEP and Revit MEP, EastCoast brings great value to the partnership by exposing the Trade Service content to an even wider audience.

According to David Derocher, President of EastCoast CAD/CAM, “EastCoast is proud to be partnering with Trade Service in embedding the company’s data inside all of our AutoCAD MEP real mechanical content.”  Derocher further states, “By adding Trade Service’s unique product coding, all Autodesk's AutoCAD MEP users now have access to extended pricing and product information on which to base critical and time-sensitive decisions.  This is a big win for our customer base and helps to set EastCoast’s solutions apart within the Contractor marketplace.”

“As Building Information Management (BIM) begins to take hold within the construction space, we want to stay at the forefront from the content perspective,” states Tod Moore, Trade Service Vice President of Sales and Marketing.  “Our partnership with EastCoast CAD/CAM gives us a significant entrée into this area, allowing us to offer EastCoast users some of the key data underpinning that BIM requires, through our TRA-SER pricing program.”

About Trade Service
Trade Service is the leading provider of standardized product and price information to the plumbing/PVF, HVACR, electrical, industrial MRO, and office products industries. Since 1931, the company has been the leader in content acquisition, aggregation, management, publishing, and distribution, offering a variety of products, services, and systems to meet the content needs of over 20,000 distributors, contractors, and government agencies. The range of solutions provided includes printed directories, electronic catalogs, pricing data for business system updating, and robust attributed content to fuel full-functioning Internet storefronts.  For more information, visit www.tradeservice.com.

About EastCoast CAD/CAM
EastCoast CAD/CAM builds MEP-based HVAC and Piping solutions for engineers and contractors throughout North America and Europe.  As one of Autodesk’s strategic HVAC and Piping Partners for AutoCAD MEP and Revit MEP, EastCoast is the one software company delivering real manufacturer content throughout the entire project lifecycle, start to finish.  Its MEP Fabrication framework, industry-standard SQL Service Parts Database, and process flows easily support multiple platforms and communicate directly to industry-standard cutting machines.  For more information on EastCoast CAD/CAM, go to www.eccadcam.com.