4 November 2011
As more and more governments, owners, architect, and contractors are requiring BIM (Building Information Modeling), engineers are increasingly being asked to participate in collaborative, model-based workflows. But, plugging into these new processes can be difficult with traditional structural design software.
In a recent article in Structure Magazine, Dan Monaghan, Nemetschek Scia, explores how three consulting engineering [...]
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27 October 2011
The Precast Concrete Institute’s BIM Committee, along with software developers Nemetschek Vectorworks, Nemetschek Scia, StructureWorks, and Tekla, presented a new integrated model based workflow for the precast industry this week that promises to streamline the design and production of precast structures. The effort was coordinated by Chuck Eastman, Professor and Director of the Georgia Tech [...]
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