About this asset

This Revit family provides a standard New Zealand exterior electrical meter box, featuring a wall-mounted enclosure with a viewing window. Designed for exterior utility applications, this electrical meter box features a robust, rectangular metal housing with a hinged front door. The unit includes a centrally located, horizontally oriented viewing window, typically glazed with clear plastic, allowing for easy reading of the utility meter inside without needing to open the enclosure. Its construction is utilitarian and functional, consistent with standard New Zealand residential and light commercial supply point specifications. The geometry is clean and simple, focusing on accurate scale and representation for site plans and electrical schematic documentation within a BIM environment.

The download is a 451 KB file containing a Revit family (.rfa). Load it into a project from the Insert tab with Load Family, then place it like any other component of its category; it schedules and tags with the rest of your model.

As a wall-hosted Revit family, this component is designed to be placed directly onto exterior wall faces. Users should load the family into their project and utilise the standard placement tools to attach the box to the building envelope. It is recommended to manage visibility through dedicated subcategories to toggle the visibility of the housing and the viewing window separately during different phases of design, such as site documentation or detailed electrical coordination.

This asset is essential for architects and MEP engineers working on residential or small-scale commercial projects in New Zealand. It is primarily used during the design development and construction documentation phases to indicate the precise location of electrical service entry points on building facades. Professionals can use this model to coordinate site utility layouts and ensure compliance with local electrical service standards, pairing it with other site infrastructure elements like switchboards and external conduit runs to complete the electrical service entry detail.