Watch The Demo Of Advance Steel, A Powerful 3D BIM Steel Detailing Software

The following video clips from Graitec demonstrate the functionalities of Advance steel to develop a building instantly.

Advance Steel is a powerful BIM based software that offers streamlined solution to 3D steel detailing. It contains automated and comprehensible tools for generating the 3D model of any building in the best time. Besides, these tools can be utilized for purlins, side rails, automatic connections, stairs, railings and lots other. The tools can produce portal frames as well as various cladding profiles.

Advance Steel detailing software is developed on the basis of the popular AutoCAD platform. The software offers huge benefits to Structural engineering professionals to speed up the process for design, steel detailing, steel fabrication, and steel construction.

The most updated version is Advance Steel 2017and to use the newest version, one should subscribe to AutoCAD 2017.

Advance Steel offers the following advanced features :-

Parametric connections

Model steel rapidly with a library packed with ready-to-use connections.

Steel shop drawings

Apply adjustable templates to produce superior-quality drawings.

Revit interoperability

Apply a BIM process from design to fabrication.

Stairs, railings, and cage ladders

Model diverse steel work more faster.

Choose and view parts of a model

Isolate and demonstrate selected components.

Bidirectional link with Revit

Accelerate time to fabrication through model synchronization with Revit.

AutoCAD Plant 3D interoperability

Incorporate real-time workflow.

Robot Structural Analysis interoperability

Make optimal use of your structure through bidirectional links.

Click on the following link to get all the features :-

www.autodesk.com/products/advance-steel/features/all/gallery-view

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Published By

Rajib Dey

www.constructioncost.co

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GSA Proposes Building Swap for Federal Triangle South Project

The General Services Administration (GSA) has proposed plans to redevelop a deteriorating federal office complex by L'Enfant Plaza. GSA informed that developers have been showing great interest for more than a year ago. The agency has issued a request for qualifications seeking developers to offer construction and development services in exchange for two federally owned properties at Federal Triangle South.

The selected developer would be responsible for offering the space planning, construction service and other aspects of shifting about 1,500 workers from the GSA's regional headquarters to the GSA's national headquarters at 1800 F St. NW. Besides, the developer will also renovate three historic buildings at the St. Elizabeths campus in Southeast D.C. for the Department of Homeland Security.

The winning bidder would take title to the GSA regional headquarters, 301 Seventh St. SW, and the adjacent Cotton Annex, which is currently an empty building near the regional building. Both are expected to present great redevelopment potential.

Dan Tangherlini, GSA Administrator, informed that the idea of a building exchange for services could play a larger role in how the agency does business if the current proposal is successful. The GSA regional headquarters and Cotton Annex are test cases to that end. He also added that doing these exchanges is relatively new to GSA.

It is expected that request for qualifications will be due by May 22, and the GSA will be able to issue a more formal request for proposals to qualified bidders over the summer, putting the agency in position to make an award by next spring or summer.

The GSA has obtained funding for both projects after great efforts and the building exchange proposal offers the agency a way around the congressional appropriations process. The project would also set the stage for the possible demolition and redevelopment of the old federal buildings.

Federal Triangle South is bounded by Independence Avenue, Sixth Street, Maryland Avenue and parts of D and 12th streets. The Department of Energy and Federal Aviation Administration are also based there, and their buildings could also be considered for a exchange in the future.

Tangherlini informed that this is an opportunity for them to re-examine how to use these buildings and reassess how this space fits within the surrounding community, making sure they are maximizing the utilization of the assets, getting underutilized or vacant properties off their rolls and back into contributing to the economies of the communities of which they are hosted. He said that the GSA requires considering a range of ideas given the tight budgets with which it has had to work over the past few years.

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Published By

Arka Roy

www.washington.quantity-takeoff.com

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SHOP DRAWING creates maximum benefits for construction companies

The shop drawing is a drawing or collection of set of drawings, diagrams, illustrations, schedules, and other data or information specifically generated or assembled by the contractor, supplier, manufacturer, subcontractor, or fabricator to demonstrate some portion of the work for the approval of architect or engineer.

Unless this task is specifically delineated in a governing agreement, design professionals and engineers should not generate shop drawings, especially in areas relating to the means and methods of construction.

The shop drawing is a graphic or written description of the work drawn to provide the information on behalf of manufacturer or the contractor to describe the fabrication, installation of the items to the manufacturer’s production crew or contractor's installation crews. The information is shown in construction documents.

Within the steel industry a majority of fabricators and detailers prepare shop drawings for pre-fabricated components. This type of components include elevators, structural steel, trusses, pre-cast, windows, appliances, cabinets, air handling units, and millwork.

With the help of shop drawing the steel fabricator gets the ability to fabricate each piece of steel in the building. Shop drawings contain brief information relating to material specifications, sizes, dimensions, welding, bolting, surface preparation, painting requirements, etc.

In a construction project, the number of shop drawings surpasses the number of construction drawings. It is observed that approximately 70 to 80 construction drawings versus 1,000 shop drawings are required in the case of documenting the steel frame for 1,000-ton building (1,000 tons of steel).

As soon as the shop drawings are completed, the mill order can be submitted sooner, the fabrication will be started immediately and the steel can be erected sooner

Concrete reinforcing is another segment in which the shop drawing is required by reinforcing steel fabricators for fabrication of the material. Here the shop drawing is prepared to lists the quantity, sizes, lengths, and shapes of the reinforcing bar. The structural engineers review this information to make sure that sufficient reinforcing is being supplied to be organized for storage and installation.

MEP Engineers also prepare installation and coordination shop drawings for sheet metal ductwork, piping, plumbing, fire protection, and electrical. Shop drawings are not produced by architects and engineers under their contract with the owner.

In brief shop drawings can be explained as below:-
• Comparison information for the architect and engineer
• Notes of changes or alterations from the construction documents
• Information required fabricating the product
• Indication of dimensions needing verification from the jobsite
• Placement or installation information
• Samples

Now a days the drafting software(CAD), 3D steel detailing software and building information modeling software(BIM) are utilized for creation & digital review of the shop drawings in which the multiple copies of each fabricated piece drawing will be reviewed electronically eliminating the paperwork that would total approximately 30,000 sheets of drawings for a construction project.

Rajib Dey
Construction Estimating Service