Tekla's latest software automates workflows and ensures communication between project participants at all stages. Tekla Structures and Tekla Structural Designer, which are based on Trimble's workflow streamlining technologies, now offer a dynamic embodied-carbon calculation function for design and drill-down processes using the Embodied Carbon Calculator. This visual and dynamic calculation tool allows users to assess the environmental impact of their design decisions directly quickly and accurately in Tekla software.
Design engineers can use the calculator to compare different design options and their associated carbon loads. Environmental professionals on project teams can also use the specially designed OneClick LCA carbon dioxide emission calculator integrated into the Tekla system to produce environmental product declarations (EPDs). Combining ordered Tekla software data with One Click LCA data and the extensive EPD database allows you to calculate the embodied carbon emissions for the materials used in production, down to each nut, bolt and rebar throughout the entire lifecycle.
The 2022 version of Tekla Structures improves the entire workflow – from design to production – with built-in intelligent functions for creating production drawings, and reduces the time spent creating and editing drawings. To produce concrete parts, the new Tekla Structures system offers reinforcing assemblies. The new feature, used primarily in Manufacturing and Assembly Technology (DfMA), strengthens Tekla's portfolio of tools for automated element manufacturing. Another new feature in Tekla Structures 2022 is the advanced Embodied Carbon Calculator, which allows Tekla Structures users to perform dynamic calculations and visualize the CO2 implications of design decisions.
The Embodied Carbon Calculator, which was already introduced in Tekla Structural Designer in 2021, now offers improved viewing, reporting and sharing of carbon emissions. Using Tekla Structural Designer, design engineers can calculate the embodied carbon in various versions at the design stage, optimising materials for designing structures with low carbon emissions. Information is easily transferred from the software by exporting reports, charts and data.
To improve the interconnection of design and detail processes, Tekla Tedds 2022 software makes it easy to share design information and documentation through the Trimble Connect™ collaboration platform. The latest version also includes new calculations and updates to existing ones for faster and more reliable design of structural elements.
The Tekla PowerFab 2022 steel fabrication management software suite solves common engineering problems, with improved management of layout and materials for joining and splitting elements. Thanks to simplified system implementation, new customers can seamlessly migrate from their current production management information system (MIS) on Tekla PowerFab. This helps to avoid tedious manual work and allows you to confidently use the new system, since data from past projects is automatically saved as needed. The software also improves monitoring and control thanks to the new delivery calendar in the Tekla PowerFab Go web application.
Michael Evans, Senior Commercial Director of the Trimble Group, said: "Tekla software continues to change the way we work in the construction industry. Our solutions organise information about construction and facilitate access to such information for all project participants, which allows us to optimise the cost of materials and the use of human resources. Thanks to continuous improvements and the high intellectual capabilities of the software, as well as the implementation of solutions for the sustainable development of the construction industry, we occupy a leading position in the supply of BIM technology platforms in the modern market.”
Read the full article, go to Offsite Magazine
