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Without doubt, COVID-19 will change the way we work forever. This recent pandemic has forced organisations and their employees to reconsider a number of key activities during this period in our lives ...

The Employer Information Requirements (EIR) is designed to be included in the tender documents for the procurement of both a design team and the constructor. It is an important element to a BIM projec...

The 2020.2 Update for Graitec’s Structural Analysis and Design software, Advance Design has now been released and is available to download on Graitec Advantage for all customers. This release comes wi...

Challenge When analysing the stability of a steel framework, it is important to make the difference between sway and non-sway frames. A frame may be classified as non-sway if its response to in-plane ...

When designing a steel structure, we want to group together steel connections which are likely to be of the same fabrication layout. Once grouped we can design for the ‘worst-case’ scenario – ultimate...

If you have placed beams in Revit, you should be aware that they have a Reference Level that they are constrained to. If we look at the properties of that beam, you can see the Reference Level at the ...

Let’s say you working on a new project, and you need to start placing some doors (or Windows) and you remember that the doors you want are not already loaded in to the project but you know the doors y...

On the 8th, 9th and 10th October we are holding our first Global Digital BIMUp Conference which is a must attend online event for Architects, Engineers, Fabricators and Contractors. With over 170 clas...

As software users, we know that shortcuts make a huge difference in productivity, what can take a few minutes can be cut down to a few seconds just by pressing a few keyboard buttons, especially when ...

If you’re a structural engineer, you are probably aware of the many benefits that structural design and analysis software will bring you during the analysis, design and optimisation phase of your stee...