Structural Offerings in Practice

Many of our users have been benefiting from our structural offerings on some truly wonderful projects. It's not easy to improve the world. These are some of the best at it.

Case Studies

Martin case study

Civic Center Office Building, Denver, Colorado.
Martin/Martin, RAM Structural System


Organization: Martin/Martin, Consulting Engineers
Solution: Structural
Location: Denver, Colorado
Project Objective: Structural analysis, design and documentation of the $132 million Civic Center Office Building.  

Fast Facts:

  • Project consisted of a new 12-story elliptical tower, the renovation of the historical, four-story Annex One Building and an underground parking structure.
  • Two sets of seismic design requirements were easily met by using RAM Structural System.
  • RAM Structural System saved an estimated time of 1200-1800 hours of design engineering.
  • Software provides a competitive advantage.

Structural Design Group case study

Structural Design Group, Inc.

Organization: Structural Design Group
Products Used:
RAM Structural System,
RAM Elements

Fast Facts:

  • Specializes in small to medium-sized projects like residential apartment buildings, hospitals, parking decks, light industrial,
    commercial, and retail.
  • Prior to using RAM integrated products, SDG cobbled together different programs which created an error prone and slow process.
  • RAM increased their confidence in a safe design and an economical design.
  • Able to cut their man hours in the field in half due to RAM.

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User testimonial quote – A current user meets tight deadline with RAM Revit Structure link: “The RAM Revit link saved us a lot of time on a recent project with a very short schedule. In fact, it would have been almost impossible to make our deadline without the RAM Revit link. After we completed the structural design in RAM Structural System, we exported to Revit Structure, and our framing plans were complete! Thank you, Bentley.”

Bob Glasgow, M.S., S.E., Principal
Miyamoto International, Inc.

Featured Bentley's structural users:
A list of Bentley's users reads like a Who's Who of the structural industry – leading structural engineers, detailers, and fabricators from around the globe.

Johnston Burkholder Associates
ADC Engineering, Inc.
Walla Engineering
Vertispace (Canam Steel)
Keller Engineers, Inc.
Ambrose Engineering, Inc.
KNA Consulting Engineers, Inc.
Jirsa Hedrick & Associates, Inc
Shelley Metz Baumann Hawk, Inc.
S/L/A/M Collaborative
Anderson & Doig Structural Engineers
Zahl-Fordz
Thornton Tomasetti
John A. Martin
McNamara Silvia
Walter P Moore
Englekirk Partners
Chavez Grieves
DCI Engineers
Degenkolb
Schuff Steel
Miyamoto International

Coffman Engineers
White Young Green
Upton McGougan
T.D. Bingham
Arup
Burton Braswell Middlebrooks
Connell Wagner Group
D’Amato Conversano Inc.
Freyssinet
Gifford and Partners
KLG Corporation
KPFF, Inc.
Magnusson Klemencic Associates
Martin/Martin Inc.
Meinhardt Group
Meyer, Borgman, and Johnson, Inc.
Robert Bird and Partners
Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, Inc.
Suncoast Post-Tension (Keller Group)
Taylor Thomson Whitting
VanDorpe Chou Associates, Inc.
VSL

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