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 ‘Cost control in the construction industry’ – SCIA Conference Day in Groot-Bijgaarden, 19th May 2005. More info and subscriptions.
New items have been added to our CAE-FAQ section. Here you can find the answers on frequently asked questions related to Esa-Prima Win, SCIA.ESA PT, ....
You can reserve a copy of the exclusive, 184 pages thick, SCIA User Contest Book with your local sales engineer or by filling in this application form. (available from 19/05/05).
SCIA.ESA PT in Herk-de-Stad:
- Steel Workshop EC3 on 21 and 22 April.
For more details, please consult our agenda.
Some Screenshots from
Allplan Architecture and Engineering
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Dear eNews reader,
It has taken some time but finally we can give a hearty welcome to ‘Spring’.
Nature has already invited us to go outdoors and we can still add a little extra motivation:
the SCIA ‘Building Industry’ conference. With our very live topic "Cost-conscious building”, a select group of speakers from the Belgian construction world and of course an exclusive location, this afternoon conference promises to be another interesting meeting. Read all about it following the link in the section “Latest News” of this newsletter.
Enjoy this springtime bouquet of interesting articles from the construction industry:
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SCIA Corporate News: Enabling Productive Construction through IT |
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Product News: 3 new Allplan modules, steel design / roundabouts / tactrix curves |
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The Market: The ‘European Technological Platform for the Construction Industry’ |
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Customers Projects: Winners of the SCIA User Contest 2005 |
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Support Tips & Tricks: Enhancing the CAD-Shape |
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| SCIA Corporate News: Enabling Productive Construction through IT |
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 SCIA has a reputation for bringing advanced analysis and design software for a variety of structures; its flagship products SCIA.ESA Professional Technology and ESA-Prima Win are the preferred choice of more than 4000 clients worldwide. SCIA is the only CAE software author who recently has achieved a total redesign and rewrite of its core software.
Less known are the tailor-made projects that SCIA delivers for clients. There are 3 major activities: steel fabrication software, concrete prefab software and finally customised design applications.
 The rise of the price of steel provoked the investment of steel trading companies in short term fabrication units; during the past year SCIA has installed its ‘management and fabrication software’ at tens of companies; a large portion of them are situated in Spain, a country where steel structures are overtaking the classical bricks & concrete structures. References are: Gruppo Freire, Klöckner, Ros Casares, Peneder.
The concrete prefab industry is making headway in Western Europe; BeNeLux and the UK are strong defenders of prefabrication. SCIA is a major service supplier to this industry with its ‘Floor, Logistics and Allplan’ software. The client base includes Betonson, Spaanssen, Group Van Maercke, Hansson-Birchwood, CRH Group.
Based on our ESA software, applications are developed for clients and specific market segments: piping industry, scaffolding, lattice towers, silo containment structures and many others.
One common goal is the foundation of all these activities:
Enabling Productive Construction through IT.
We also heartily welcome the start of the Belgian ESA User Group, which started early 2005 and brings together more than 20 clients; for details on their activities see www.esausergroup.be.
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| 3 new Allplan modules: steel design / roundabouts / tactrix curves |
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Allplan Steel Design
In your familiar Allplan environment, with objects such as brickwork walls, concrete columns, system floors, windows in glass, steel built-in elements, ... it is now possible to work with steel templates. Make your choice out of the many parameterized templates and model your steel structure, connections included. It is not only possible to modify the model by retrieving and adapting its parameters in Allplan, but also to alter it in SCIA.ESA PT. An example, after having performed a profile optimization in SCIA.ESA PT, the changes are immediately visible in Allplan.
As before, it is possible to generate views and cuts from the Allplan model. Since the model is also an SCIA.ESA PT project, the automatic overview drawings or detail drawings from the CAE software can be used too.
Allplan Steel Design is available on 4 levels: the library of steel templates, the modeller for creating your own construction in SCIA.ESA PT and for reading it in in Allplan afterwards, parametric design for parameterising your own constructions (e.g. staircase on the above picture on the right), the entire SCIA.ESA PT program, not only for modelling but also for performing the static analysis.
 Allplan ‘roundabout and tactrix curves’
With only one dialogue window it is possible to design a roundabout with parameters. Enter the various radiuses and with one simple click on the mouse you lay the foundation of the roundabout. From the extendible library of vehicles, a vehicle is chosen with the function ‘tactrix curves’. The program takes the turning circles of each individual wheel into account. This vehicle has to follow a specified track. The result you get from Allplan is a coloured zone representing the space needed by the vehicle. The vehicle can also be put in reverse, this option it is very suitable when making the analysis of parking spaces, approaching roads and exits.
Read more: www.scia-online.com/allplan
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The ‘European Technological Platform for the Construction Industry’ |
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On March 1st, 2005 the first meeting of the ‘European Technological Platform for the Construction Industry’ was held in Brussels. The goal of this platform is to lead the sector to a higher level with regard to performance and competitiveness. This initiative is supported by the ‘Council of the Architects of Europe’.
 The European Technological Platform is composed of representatives of all levels of the construction industry - contractors, architects, engineers, suppliers of materials, research institutes and operators - and of other sectors, which are directly affected by the success of this sector, e.g. national governments, members of the European Parliament, cities, financial institutions, user groups, as well as the ONG sector.
By analysing the major challenges with which the construction sector is confronted, with regard to the company, the durability and the technological development, the European Technological Platform has the objective to achieve the following goals:
- industrialize the construction process in order to significantly reduce the construction costs and to increase quality;
- take part in the efforts for rationalizing the national and European legislations in order to create a real ‘Common Market’ for construction products and services;
- act in order to reduce the use of energy, of materials and of other resources in the construction industry and the building environment;
- emphasize the competitiveness of the European construction sector compared to the USA and low cost economies;
- cause comprehension for the fact that the construction sector is innovating and based on research;
- contribute to the improvement of the built-up environment so as to ensure, through other objectives, that it will be accessible to all;
- improve the relations of suppliers and service providers, in particular with customers, citizens and end-users of the products of the construction sector;
- shift the image of the sector from product oriented towards service oriented.
All these points are in total agreement with the policy regarding products & services to which SCIA is sticking to since many years. We are very pleased because it stresses that our total strategy is in phase with the fundamental tendencies of our branch of industry.
For more information on this ‘European Technological Platform for the Construction Industry’: www.ectp.org
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Winners of the SCIA User Contest 2005 |
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In previous eNews letters, we extensively paid attention to the SCIA User Contest 2005.
An international jury, composed of members from universities and important companies, gathered at SCIA on the 14th of February to judge about 85 projects; a difficult task if one considers the extreme high technical level of the participating projects and the attractive ways in how they were presented by their originators. We are proud to present you in this eNews edition of April, the winners in each of the four contest categories.
And the winners are …
| Category 1: Allplan Projects |
| BE Vancraenenbroeck - Restoration of the orphanage and convent of Boussu
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| Category 2: Civil Engineering (ESA) |
| Engineering Office Stendess - Bicyclist and pedestrian bridge, Wetteren
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| Category 3: Commercial and Industrial Building (ESA) |
| ARCADIS Bouw en Vastgoed - Amsterdam Arena: Dynamic recalculation of roof structure
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| Category 4:
Steel Constructions (ESA) |
| Ingénieurs Associés - Steel footbridge for the European Parliament
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We sincerely congratulate the winners and wish to individually thank every participant; we also congratulate everybody with his proven achievements with the SCIA ‘CAE and CAD’ software.
If you did not participate in this contest, but still want to show your work, you can send it to SCIA. By devoting an eNews article to it, your company will get that extra international attention it deserves. We are looking forward to your participation for the next edition of the SCIA User Contest, on which you will become detailed information in due course.
For now we let the winning projects speak for themselves …
You can reserve your copy of this exclusive, 184 pages thick, SCIA User Contest Book, illustrating all participating projects, with your local sales engineer or by filling in this application form. (available from 19/05/05)
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| Tips & Tricks: Enhancing the CAD-Shape |
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 In Advanced Mode, the CAD-shape of a structure can be enhanced by calculating member end-cuts 
This option can be found in the Modify menu where different methods are possible. Using the option Splice  for instance, it is possible to generate the section between two members including even a gap between the two:
Using this functionality, the CAD-shape can be greatly enhanced to resemble the actual structure.
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