Boost Efficiency and Compliance for Electric Power Structural Design
Designing substations and transmission structures today requires more than traditional tools—especially with evolving wind and seismic code requirements. This 3-part webinar series explores how STAAD, STAAD Foundation Advanced, and STAAD-ADINA enable structural engineers to deliver resilient, code-compliant designs with greater speed and accuracy.
Learn how to streamline steel and foundation workflows, reduce rework through integration, and apply advanced simulation techniques for critical assets. Whether you’re expanding infrastructure, retrofitting existing systems, or managing complex environmental loads, this series equips your team with practical strategies to improve design efficiency, ensure compliance, and confidently tackle the structural challenges of modern grid infrastructure.
Available On-Demand
As power demand increases and infrastructure ages, the need to maintain, expand, and fortify substation structures and the broader electrical power grid has never been more critical. This webinar will explore how STAAD.Pro can support engineers in delivering reliable, code-compliant designs that meet today’s operational challenges and tomorrow’s energy demands..
What you will learn:
- How to assess and strengthen existing substation structures using STAAD.Pro
- Best practices for integrating new equipment and expansions into legacy designs
- Techniques for designing resilient structures that meet current wind, seismic, and structural codes
- How STAAD.Pro streamlines modeling, load application, and analysis for both greenfield and brownfield projects
Available On-Demand
Substation and transmission foundations face unique demands—heavy electrical equipment, complex loading conditions, and stringent code requirements. In this webinar, you’ll learn how the 2025 release of STAAD Foundation Advanced equips structural engineers with powerful tools to meet these challenges efficiently and with confidence.
Explore real-world foundation design scenarios specific to electrical grid infrastructure—from isolated footings under control buildings to pile-supported foundations for transmission towers. Discover how advanced automation, integrated workflows with STAAD.Pro, and intelligent optimization features help reduce rework, improve accuracy, and ensure code compliance across your entire foundation portfolio.
What you’ll learn:
- How to design isolated, combined, mat, and pile foundations tailored to substations and transmission structures
- Integration with STAAD.Pro for seamless structural-to-foundation design workflows
- How integrated STAAD.Pro-to-Foundation workflows eliminate manual data transfer and rework
- Techniques to minimize material use while ensuring resilience and regulatory compliance
Available On-Demand
Grid infrastructure is evolving rapidly—and so must your analysis tools. When standard linear analysis falls short, STAAD-ADINA provides the advanced capabilities needed for today’s most complex and high-risk assets, from substations in seismic zones to towers exposed to extreme environmental loads.
Join this session to see how structural engineers are using nonlinear, dynamic, and multiphysics analysis in STAAD-ADINA to assess and validate designs that must perform reliably under real-world conditions. Whether you’re evaluating retrofit options, modeling foundation-structure interaction, or validating compliance for mission-critical facilities, STAAD-ADINA delivers the precision and depth your projects demand.
What you’ll learn:
- How to simulate nonlinear behavior, large deformation, and soil-structure interaction in substation foundations and superstructures
- Use cases where advanced analysis improves structural resilience and reduces uncertainty
- Real-world project examples involving seismic, thermal, and dynamic loading
- Best practices for integrating ADINA analysis into your STAAD design workflows
Meet the Presenters
Zeinab Sakar
Product Sales Engineer (Structural)
Bentley Systems
With a background in Structural Engineering, Zeinab serves as a product consultant for structural and pipe stress analysis software products like STAAD, RAM, AutoPIPE, ADINA, OpenTower, ProStructures, SACS, MAXSURF, and MOSES at Bentley Systems. Zeinab is passionate about leveraging her expertise in structural engineering to help engineers solve their problems more efficiently and effectively while being confident in the usage and output of Bentley software.
Karim Rashad
Structural Engineer
Bentley Systems
Karim Rashad is a professional structural engineer with more than 25 years of experience in the structural and civil engineering industry. He holds a BS in civil engineering from the Howard University School of Engineering. Karim has worked on a variety of projects, including bridges, transportation structures, plants, and building structures. He joined Bentley Systems in 2011.
Qian Fang
Product Sales Engineer
Bentley Systems
With a background in Civil and Structural Engineering, Qian Fang serves as a product consultant for structural and pipe stress analysis software products at Bentley Systems. Qian is passionate about leveraging her expertise in structural engineering to help engineers solve their problems more efficiently and effectively, and be more productive in different kinds of engineering projects.
