Thanks to Phil Read for sharing a nice little free add-in that basically Zooms to the selected object. It is called ZoomToAwesome.
Download installer from:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hsr3bsmc7hbq468/ZtAInstaller.zip
Combine this with COINS Auto Section Box, and some other tricks like selecting an element from a Schedule, and you should be able to find any element in your model.
