Structural Analysis and Design Products

The $70 million Evergreen Community Power (ECP) plant is biomass-fueled with a 300,000-pounds-per-hour circulating fluidized bed boiler and 33-megawatt steam turbine. A tremendous amount of time saved integrating STAAD.Pro and AutoPLANT. Even with the learning curve on Bentley software,  ESI saved about two months of work using 3D modeling to design the ECP plant.

This project included the planning and design of a new 11-story, 550,000 square-foot office building with a demanding schedule.

To save time and reduce errors during design, GS&P used the intra-operability features of Bentley’s RAM Structural System program and TriForma (now Bentley Structural) 3D software to automatically generate the structural steel framing plans for the entire building.

The Elements Livingston
Scotland

The Elements is a £90 million extension to the Almondvale Shopping Center in Livingston, Scotland, consisting of six new buildings linked by a high-quality mall covered by a lightweight EFTE free form fabric roof. The biggest challenge was to produce a large amount of accurate production information on a very tight timescale so on-site work and steelwork fabrication could commence.

Arup used Bentley Structural mainly for its ability to link with Bentley’s RAM Structural System, which allowed Arup to go straight from analysis models to 3D Bentley Structural models.

2007 Be Award Finalist

Pilbara Iron Ore and Infrastructure Project – Cloudbreak Ore Handling, Australia

PDC provided all mechanical and structural shop detailing and modeling for a screening building with 11 product and scalping screen bins, a crushing building with bins and chutes, a stockpile facility, a train loadout facility with bins and chutes, 11 conveyers and associated transfer stations, and a desanding building.

The project was completed using ProSteel to model and detail the more complex mechanical items, such as bins, curved trusses, transfer chutes, and liner systems.

AutoPIPE at Queensland Alumina Limited (QAL)
"QAL has been using AutoPIPE for six years now to design modifications to the plant to reduce the excessive loads on pumps, nozzles and supports, saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in maintenance costs,” stated Brian Lloyd, Senior Mechanical Engineer with QAL.

Recognizing the importance of integrated structural and piping analysis to capture more accurate, realistic and safer engineered designs, Brian Lloyd said this about QAL's recent purchase of STAAD.Pro,“We have started to use the integrated structural and piping solution and finding significant changes have to be made to both the piping and structural designs to make it safe. And now with STAAD, plan to improve this design process."