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| History |
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Structural Consultants Inc., is a firm that focuses on technology. SCI has always been a leader in applying the latest technology advancements in our engineering activities.
Since the early advances in Computer Aided Design and Drafting, SCI has maintained multiple design tools to accommodate the design of the wide variety of projects we complete.
We have incorporated the use of advanced computer analysis technology since it became practical for commercial application. The use of Computer Aided Drafting started at SCI with AutoCad version 1.2.
Although SCI has always been a leader and at the cutting edge of technology advancements; we still use an old-fashioned approach to maintaining the accuracy of our designs. We believe no design should be completed using a “black box” approach.
An engineer must be able to understand and check the accuracy of any technology tool they use prior to incorporating its output into one of our projects.
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| Current Application of Engineering Technology |
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SCI’s current application of technology utilizes many third party software applications such as ETABS, RAM Analysis, Enercalc and others. We have also developed many in-house applications.
SCI has developed specialty software for the evaluation of steel connections, steel stair framing and other specialty items that require a customized approach. SCI often customizes these tools on a project by project basis to ensure the correct analysis of any project specific conditions.
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| The Evolution of BIM Modeling |
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As SCI looks to the future, we continue to incorporate the newest state of the art techniques in our approach. BIM (Building Information Model) Modeling has become the next evolution of the application of technology in the engineering community. SCI has been on the cutting edge of this new and exciting world. SCI believes the future of BIM will include fully detailed intelligent 3-D models incorporating all of the information currently shown in 2-D design documents.
This level of information can be used to coordinate the multi-discipline design of a building and also allow the information to be passed downstream to the construction team to increase the interoperability of the design and construction team. SCI has adopted TEKLA Structures and other BIM modeling tools as the basis of our efforts. This advanced software was used successfully by SCI on the complex steel connection design of the Denver Art Museum.
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