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ISA believes structural engineering software should be powerful, accurate, and user-friendly. With this in mind, RISA software products (including ADAPT) allow engineers to effortlessly analyze and design steel, concrete, post-tensioned concrete, timber, masonry, aluminum, and cold-formed steel structures.

The following case studies illustrate the versatility of our software.

Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center

Cal Poly Pomona Student Services Building Building Client: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Structural Engineer: John A. Martin & Associates, Inc., Los Angeles, CA Built to serve a variety of student needs, the Student Services Building at Cal Poly stands as a symbol of the sustainable-focused mission of the university. Inspired by the surrounding topography, including the nearby San Gabriel Mountains, the undulating roof serves an

Riviera Stage at Riverview Park Building Client: City of Des Moines Parks and Recreation Structural Engineer: Raker Rhodes Engineering, Des Moines, IA During most of the 20th century, Riverview Park in Des Moines, Iowa, was home to Riverview Amusement Park, a popular family entertainment oasis that included the nationally known Riviera Ballroom. After its closure in 1978, the site sat empty for decades until it was recently redeveloped to include the new Riviera Stage.

The stage celebrates the city’s history and aims to bring performance back to the island that lies between the Des Moines River.

With the stage as the focal point of the new development, it was important to the designers that the location’s history influenced the design. Thus, the elevated stage includes an open-air canopy that links the design to the former amusement park’s ballroom, while the arch structure serves as a playful reminder of the roller coasters that once stood at the site. The main structural elements used in the stage canopy and arch structure are large round HSS sections (sizes ranging from 12- to 14-inch-diameter). Towering above the stage (60 feet above ground level) is a superstructure comprised of two arched box trusses, each spanning 120 feet. The trusses are connected by a 95-foot-long box truss which supports the signage for the stage.

Engineers utilized the RISA-Revit Link and RISA-3D to create the complex geometry and design the HSS members of both the canopy and arched truss structure. The design team could discern the internal forces at each joint using RISA-3D, helping to simplify the unique challenge of designing the fully welded, angled connections required at the HSS truss intersections.

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Building Client: Columbia University Medical Center Structural Engineer: LERA Consulting Engineers, New York, NY The Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center is a 107,000-squarefoot, 15-story state-of-the-art medical education facility located on the Washington Heights campus of Columbia University. The building serves as an instrumental tool in the team-based, problem-solvingfocused medical education provided to students. The tower includes a free-flowing “Study Cascade,” which serves as a vertical campus and intentionally designed spaces that focus on specific functions, such as anatomy labs, cadaver examination rooms, and a surgical simulation center. In totality, the building’s design allows for a wide range of learning experiences for medical students.

With the building’s layout creating challenging vertical load paths, engineers utilized cantilevered, high-strength (8 ksi concrete) post-tensioned concrete floors with bonded tendons that were supported by a pair of inclined composite concrete columns that slope up from the foundation level to the 8th Floor and direct load around the column-free auditorium.

ADAPT-Builder’s multi-story features were utilized to capture the load-sharing effects at the cantilevered slabs that are connected by single-story walls and ramps. Additionally, detailed deflection contour plots from ADAPT-Builder were used to coordinate deflections in the slab with the curtain walls above and below, ensuring that the stringent performance criteria were satisfied.

essential role in achieving LEED Platinum certification. The roof, spanning over two separate structures, mitigates the desert climate with its perforated overhangs while shading the exterior glass and reducing the thermal loads as well as glare.

As the main focal point of the structure, the organic, undulating roof consists of long-span tapered steel girders supporting a Kalzip standing-seam roof. The two-way span roof is curved in both directions, which posed considerable challenges for the design, fabrication, connection (19,000 roof panel attachment clips were used), and installation of the steel girders, requiring them to meet incredibly strict deflection tolerances.

Engineers utilized dxf files generated in BIM software to streamline the structural modeling, analysis, and design in RISA-3D. The software then enabled designers to manipulate geometry and loading conditions with ease while closely monitoring individual member deflections under various load combinations, ensuring successful fabrication and construction.

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SOFTWARE Adhesives Technology Corporation Phone: 754-399-1057 Email: jhanley@atcepoxy.com Web: atcepoxy.com/software Product: Pro Anchor Design Software Description: This adhesive anchor-focused design tool aids in meeting the design strength requirements of ACI 318. For use with any of ATC’s IBCcompliant anchoring products. Single pane interface minimizes data input time. Rapid 3-D modeling and real-time optimization of loading conditions, embedment depths, anchor sizes, and more. FREE download!

American Wood Council

Phone: 202-463-4756 Email: info@awc.org Web: www.awc.org Product: Wood Design Calculators Description: The American Wood Council has developed five free, web-, mobile- and tablet-based applications to streamline the process of ensuring new and existing buildings comply with the latest building codes. Apps are available for browsers, as well as iOS, Android, and Windows devices.

ASDIP Structural Software

Phone: 407-284-9202 Email: support@asdipsoft.com Web: www.asdipsoft.com Product: ASDIP Suite Description: Four intuitive software packages with over 16 modules to help you with all your engineering design tasks. For the past 28 years we have been developing powerful yet simple-to-use tools to easily analyze, design, optimize, and check your structural members.

Bentley Systems®

Phone: 800-BENTLEY Email: structuralinfo@bentley.com Web: www.bentley.com Product: STAAD.Pro Description: Perform comprehensive analysis and design for any size or type of structure faster than ever before using STAAD.Pro. Simplify your BIM workflow by using a physical model in STAAD.Pro that is automatically converted into the analytical model for your structural analysis. Share synchronized models for multi-discipline team collaboration.

Product: RAM Structural System Description: Provides a complete solution for analysis, design, drafting, and documentation for steel and concrete buildings, foundations, and even individual structural components, all in compliance with your local building codes.

CADRE Analytic

Phone: 425-392-4309 Email: j4@cadreanalytic.com Web: www.cadreanalytic.com Product: CADRE Pro Description: General structural application emphasizing on practical analysis of complex structures.

Includes discrete, pressure, hydrostatic, seismic, and dynamic response loading schemes. User friendly features for presenting, displaying, plotting, and tabulating extreme loads and stresses across the structure and across multiple load cases simultaneously. Basic code checking for steel, wood, and aluminum.

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ClearCalcs

Phone: 603-443-1038 Email: hello@clearcalcs.com Web: www.clearcalcs.com Product: Cloud Software Suite Description: Make design calculations the easiest part of your job. Effortlessly design and analyze everything from the roof down to the foundations in your choice of wood, steel, cold-formed steel, and concrete. Track loads through your whole structure, and use any recent building code with lightning quick FEA based results.

DEWALT Anchors & Fasteners

Phone: 800-524-3244 Email: anchors@dewalt.com Web: http://anchors.dewalt.com Product: DEWALT DESIGN ASSIST™ Description: State-of-the-art structural design software for concrete anchorages. Facilitates design efforts in base plate, equipment, and deck member anchorages, and post-installed rebar designs. Utilize an extensive library of mechanical, adhesive, and castin-place anchors with the Anchor Comparison Tool to easily see differences across anchor types, sizes, and brands. Download at website.

Digital Canal Corp.

Phone: 800-449-5033 Email: info@digitalcanal.com Web: www.digitalcanalstructural.com Product: Cold-Formed Steel Design Description: Please visit the website for New ColdFormed Steel design software information. You receive exceptional value with a one-project return on your investment. You also OWN your licenses. We do not force ongoing payments forever. Our 11,000 clients provide the best testimonial we can offer.

Dlubal Software, Inc.

Phone: 267-702-2815 Email: info-us@dlubal.com Web: www.dlubal.com Product: RFEM, RWIND Simulation Description: Wind tunnel numerical simulations for wind flow on all structures. Integrate resulting wind pressures into the FEA program RFEM for further design of steel, concrete, wood, CLT, aluminum, glass, and fabric/membrane structures according to USA/ International standards. Wind loading on specialty structures, not addressed in codes provisions, possible with RWIND Simulation.

Hohmann & Barnard, Inc.

Phone: 800-645-0616 Email: jenniferm@h-b.com Web: h-b.com Product: ProWall Tools Software Description: H&B’s premium, free software, ProWall Tools, allows architects, specifiers, suppliers, and contractors to quickly gather product information, create submittals, ensure that all products are compatible, and create custom take-offs. ProWall Tools now includes our Thermal Brick Support System to help optimize energy efficiency.

IES, Inc.

Phone: 406-586-8988 Email: info@iesweb.com Web: www.iesweb.com Product: IES Building Suite Description: You need practical, affordable tools that really help you solve analysis and design problems efficiently. Fortunately, with IES, Inc., you will get high quality reports from easy-to-use software. Find out for yourself why thousands of engineers rely on VisualAnalysis, VisualFoundation, ShapeBuilder, QuickRWall and our other excellent products.

INTEGRITY SOFTWARE, INC.

Phone: 512-372-8991 Email: sales@softwaremetering.com Web: www.softwaremetering.com Product: SofTrack Description: Use SofTrack to control Bentley Application usage by product code and feature (pipes, ponds, rails). Also control Bentley Passport/Visa usage. Receive idle usage alerts. Seamless operation for local and remote usage including Citrix sessions.

Additionally benefit from Automatic Autodesk named-user tracking and reporting.

Losch Software Ltd

Phone: 323-592-3299 Email: loschinfo@gmail.com Web: www.loschsoft.com Product: LECWall Description: The industry standard for concrete insulated “sandwich” wall panel design and handles multi-story columns as well. LECWall can analyze prestressed and/or mild reinforced wall panels with zero to 100 percent composite action. Flat, hollowcore, and stemmed configurations are supported.

Complete handling analysis is also included.

Product: LECPres Description: Can analyze prestressed and/or mild reinforced simple span or cantilevered concrete beams and slabs. Handling analysis is also included. A 15day trial version is available.

ENERCALC, Inc.

ENERCALC Phone: 949-645-0151 Email: info@enercalc.com Web: https://enercalc.com Product: ENERCALC Structural Engineering Library Description: ENERCALC 3D FEM and RetainPro modules are part of installed/cloud SEL. New FEMpowered Steel Base Plate and Flitch Plated Wood Beam modules. No more hand-calculated Z values!

Subscription seats are now automatically shared between installed/cloud users! SEL’s windows are bigger, cleaner, better organized.

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mechanical and adhesive anchors matched with cordless tool and dust collection systems to help contractors safely install anchors into concrete and masonry.

New this year, the DEWALT Critical Connection Undercut Anchor (CCU+) combines a robust design with the low displacement characteristics of an undercut anchor built for high performance and applications. For post-installed, critical concrete connections, the new CCU+ delivers on Performance, Productivity, and Range.

Qualified under ICC-ES ESR-4810, the CCU+ Undercut Anchors are for heavy-duty loading in cracked and uncracked concrete. Their published design values offer flexible options, like close anchor spacing and edge distances. Loading performance features high tension and shear loads comparable to cast-in-place anchor bolts. The CCU+ Anchors are Made In The USA and are available in two steel grades: zinc plated carbon steel B7 highstrength steel for interior conditions and 316 Stainless Steel for exterior and wet conditions. Two styles are offered: Pre-Set anchors for installing anchors and fixtures and Thru-Bolt configurations for fixtures already in position.

During installation of CCU+ Anchors, a hollow bit with a stop collar is available for the primary hole, and the undercut is formed with a hollow undercutting bit. Both bits capture silica dust in a HEPA filtration dust extractor and limit exposure as part of the DEWALT DUSTX+™ System. This installation system is available fully cordless as part of the DEWALT 60V MAX* platform.

DEWALT products are sold through a network of construction and industrial supply distributors. In addition, DEWALT Anchors and Fasteners support is available via local field engineer representatives, as well as our engineering direct phone number and email.

Please visit the website for the full DEWALT Anchors and Fasteners offerings. From mechanical and adhesive anchoring to jobsite and engineering support, DEWALT is a Guaranteed Tough™ solution to your commercial and industrial construction needs from DESIGN to BUILD to SUPPORT.

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hen choosing concrete and masonry anchors, both contractors and engineers look for productivity-enhancing solutions. DEWALT® complements its leadership position in Power Tools with a complete range of Anchors and Fasteners to provide such solutions.

Traveling along a customer’s journey, we begin with the construction design. The needs of specifiers and designers have changed, and post-installed concrete anchoring now has its own set of rules set forth by the International Building Code (IBC) code and American Concrete Institute (ACI). Certain anchorage situations call for the utilization of a software solution specifically created to handle the complex calculations required to build modern structures. DEWALT understands these needs and thus created DEWALT DESIGN ASSIST™ (DDA).

DDA is a no-cost/no-fee, state-of-the-art structural design software that streamlines, automates, and optimizes your concrete anchoring design process. DDA includes multiple design standards, a comprehensive library of anchors, numerous reporting options, and unparalleled tools to simplify your design process. Features include Base Plate Anchorage – the standard tool to use when considering anchorage to concrete, allowing complete geometric flexibility with the anchor patterns or base plate shape. Designs are calculated to be compliant with the latest major published design criteria and use products that independent approval bodies have tested for performance and reliability. The included Equipment Anchorage module further extends the functionality of base plate designs, now allowing you to leverage DDA to model wind and seismic forces acting on equipment and helps resolve optimal anchorage solutions at a larger scale. Additional modules include Anchorage to Deck Members, Post-Installed Rebar Design, and Anchors Comparisons, with code compliance to ACI 318-19, ACI 318-14, CSA A23.3-19, and CSA A23.314. Please visit anchors.DEWALT.com/DDA to download the complete program.

Once your designs have been completed, DEWALT offers the commercially available Mechanical and Adhesive Anchors with productivity at the forefront.

DEWALT mechanical anchors include a cracked concrete qualified range of PowerStud+™ carbon steel SD1, SD2, and stainless steel with SD4 and SD6. The Screw-Bolt+™ concrete screw anchor is a cracked concrete qualified, high-performance screw anchor available in both Hex and Flat heads for a finished look. They install quickly with DEWALT impact wrenches and drivers and are removable (as necessary). The UltraCon+ fastening system is a complete family of small diameter screw anchors for light to medium duty applications in concrete, masonry block, brick, and wood base materials.

DEWALT also has post-installed rebar and threaded rod anchor designs and installation covered for your project, as well as

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National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying

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Phone: 855-792-6776 Email: sales_mkt@nanometrics.ca Web: www.nanometrics.ca Product: Vantage Structural Health Monitoring Description: An integrated solution for monitoring the structural integrity of critical infrastructure and facilities, the Vantage Structural Health Monitoring portal provides immediate notification of significant events along with automatically compiled incident reports for rapid assessment of any impact to a facility.

Phone: 800-250-3196 Email: jbarker@ncees.org Web: ncees.org Product: Professional Engineering License Description: The National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing professional licensure for engineers and surveyors.

RedBuilt™

Phone: 866-859-6757 Email: info@redbuilt.com Web: www.redbuilt.com Product: RedSpec™ Description: A convenient, user-friendly design program that lets you quickly and efficiently create floor and roof design specifications using Red-I™ joists, RedBuilt open-web trusses, RedLam™ LVL, glulam beams and dimensional lumber. RedSpec is provided free of charge to registered users. Contact us if you need support.

RISA

Phone: 949-951-5815 Email: info@risa.com Web: risa.com Product: ADAPT-Builder Description: Powerful and easy-to-use 3-D finite element software for multistory reinforced concrete and post-tensioned buildings and structures. Builder delivers comprehensive workflows for complete analysis and design. Combine gravity, lateral, and post-tensioning actions for efficient, complete, and accurate design. Integrate with various BIM software for seamless project deliverables.

Product: RISAFloor Description: Designs and optimizes building systems constructed of steel (composite and noncomposite), concrete, wood, and CFS, as well as combinations of materials. Automatic live load reduction, additive or exclusive floor area loads, vibration calculations, and more make RISAFloor the first choice for the design of all types of building systems.

Product: RISA-3D Description: Version 19 is the next step in the evolution of the completely redesigned RISA-3D. With new features including the design of coldformed steel walls, AISC and ACI code updates, seismic improvements, and the introduction of orthotropic plates, engineers can effortlessly complete complex projects utilizing any material.

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Phone: 800-838-0899 Email: support@skyciv.com Web: www.skyciv.com Product: SkyCiv API Description: SkyCiv is excited to announce their structural analysis and design API. Cloud based API lets users connect their tools directly to SkyCiv technology, automating and improving parts of the design process. Functions include: model generation, FEA solver, member design, wind load calculations, 3-D rendering, and much more.

Phone: 252-504-2282 Email: info@strand7.com Web: www.strand7.com Product: Strand7 Description: A general-purpose FEA system comprising integrated pre- and post-processing and solvers. Used for linear and nonlinear analysis of structures and components (static, dynamic, and heat transfer) by engineering companies of all sizes and disciplines. Strand7 has gained worldwide acceptance as a powerful tool for structural analysis, particularly nonlinear analysis.

StructurePoint

Phone: 847-966-4357 Email: info@structurepoint.org Web: www.structurepoint.org Product: Concrete Design Software Suite Description: Concrete design software programs updated to ACI 318-14 for concrete buildings, concrete structures, and concrete tanks. Reinforced concrete structural software includes programs for the design of columns, bridge piers beams, girders, one and two-way slabs, shearwalls, tilt-up walls, mats, foundations, tanks, and slabs-on-grade.

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Trimble

Phone: 770-715-3976 Email: jodi.hendrixson@trimble.com Web: www.tekla.com/us Product: Tekla Tedds Description: Automates repetitive and error prone structural and civil calculations, allowing engineers to perform 2-D frame analysis, access a large range of automated structural and civil calculations to U.S. codes, and speed up daily structural calculations.

Product: Tekla Structures Description: Create and transfer constructible models throughout the design life cycle, from concept to completion. With Tekla Structures, accurate and information-rich models reduce RFIs, leverage models for drawing production, material take-offs, and collaboration with architects, consultants, fabricators and contractors.

Trimble Monitoring

Phone: 720-376-1909 Email: riley_smith@trimble.com Web: https://monitoring.trimble.com Product: Trimble 4D Control Description: Provides automated movement detection, enabling project stakeholders of critical transportation infrastructure, tunnels, dams, mines, natural hazards, and buildings surrounding construction sites to monitor in real-time with confidence. This customizable platform allows multiple sites to be managed with unparalleled movement analysis and extensive support for a wide variety of monitoring sensors.

Victaulic

Phone: 713-752-1914 Email: stephanie.black@hkstrategies.com Web: www.victaulicsoftware.com Product: Victaulic Tools for AutoCAD® Description: An all-new, free tool that provides AutoCAD users the same classic routing features and drawing productivity gains that were previously only available in the Victaulic Tools for Revit platform. The add-on provides toolsets engineered for civil, industrial, plant, or mechanical projects, and includes features to simplify pipe routing, procurement, and exporting bill-of-materials.

Visicon Inc

Phone: 650-218-0008 Email: info@visicon.com Web: https://visicon.com Product: Visicon Model Review and Checking Description: Gives structural engineers unprecedented visibility into all of the design, analysis, and production BIM models they use and review. No matter the source (Revit, IFC, ETABS, ADAPT, point cloud, etc.), our solution provides an easy and powerful way to understand, compare, and check project models.

WoodWorks® Software

Phone: 800-844-1275 Email: sales@woodworks-software.com Web: www.woodworks-software.com Product: WoodWorks Design Office Suite Description: Conforms to IBC 2015, ASCE 7-10, NDS 2015, SDPWS 2015. SHEARWALLS: designs perforated and segmented shearwalls; generates loads; rigid and flexible diaphragm distribution methods. SIZER: designs beams, columns, studs, joists up to 6 stories; automatic load patterning. CONNECTIONS: Wood-to-wood, wood-to-steel, or wood-to-concrete.

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healthy lives via structures that withstand natural and man-made disasters. PCA members are committed to delivering products that meet those needs as well as drive down emissions and achieve the industry’s environmental goals. This roadmap enables our member companies and partners along the cement and concrete value chain to continue building a better future, Shaped by Concrete.

About Design and Control of Concrete Mixtures, 17th Edition Design and Control of Concrete Mixtures has been the cement and concrete industry’s primary reference on concrete knowledge for almost 100 years. Since the first edition was published in 1924, the U.S. version has been updated 16 times to reflect advances in cement and concrete technology and to meet the growing needs of architects, engineers, builders, concrete producers, concrete technologists, instructors, and students This fully revised 17th edition was written to provide a concise, current reference on concrete, including the many developments that occurred since the last edition was published in 2016. The text is backed by over 100 years of research by the Portland Cement Association and other industry groups. It reflects the latest guidance on standards, specifications, and test methods of ASTM International (ASTM), the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), and the American Concrete Institute (ACI).

The 17th edition includes an in-depth restructuring of the existing content, presenting a 40% increase in new information over the previous edition. This edition also has added two new chapters on imperfections in concrete and innovations in concrete.

Over 3 million copies of past editions of the book have been distributed, making this book a primary reference on concrete technology.

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he Portland Cement Association (PCA), founded in 1916, is the premier policy, research, education, and market intelligence organization serving America’s cement manufacturers. PCA members have facilities across the United States and represent the majority of American cement production.

The cement and concrete industries, directly and indirectly, employ over 600,000 people and contribute more than $100 billion each year to the nation’s economy. PCA promotes sustainability, safety, and innovation in all aspects of construction, fosters continuous improvement in cement manufacturing and distribution, and generally promotes economic growth and sound infrastructure investment.

Cement producers have a strong culture of innovation. They are in constant pursuit of finding more innovative and efficient ways of producing the high-quality cement our nation needs for things like homes, highways, hospitals, and the infrastructure that delivers safe drinking water. Since 1990, the industry has reduced energy consumption by 35%, emissions intensity by 11%, and company-led improvements have increased the use of alternative fuels, such as industrial byproducts that otherwise would end up in landfills.

In late 2020, PCA released a climate ambition statement: PCA and its members will develop a roadmap by the end of 2021 to facilitate member companies achieving carbon neutrality across the cement and concrete value chain by 2050. This roadmap will guide the industry on perhaps the most ambitious carbon neutrality journey ever attempted. The entire value chain of clinker, cement, concrete, construction, and concrete as a carbon sink is an integral part of tomorrow’s circular economy, and each area has its part to play. This roadmap enables the construction sector to meet this sustainability goal, and collaboration with industry and private partners will be imperative to realize the multitude of solutions outlined.

Cement and concrete have been pivotal in building resilient communities that enable people to live safe, productive, and Chapter List 1 – Introduction to Concrete

13 – Specifying, Designing, and Proportioning Concrete Mixtures

2 – Portland, Blended, and Other Hydraulic Cement

14 – Batching, Mixing, Transporting, and Handling Concrete

3 – Supplementary Cementitious Materials

15 – Placing and Finishing Concrete

4 – Mixing Water for Concrete

16 – Imperfections in Concrete

5 – Aggregates for Concrete

17 – Curing Concrete

6 – Chemical Admixtures for Concrete

18 – Hot Weather Concreting

7 – Fibers

19 – Cold Weather Concreting

8 – Reinforcement

20 – Test Methods

9 – Properties of Concrete

21 – Paving

10 – Volume Changes of Concrete

22 – Structures

11 – Durability

23 – High-Performance Concrete

12 – Sustainability

24 – Innovations in Concrete Technology

Available in both hardcopy and Ebook versions: Purchase your copy here www.cement.org/designandcontrol

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CONCRETE American Concrete Institute

Commercial Metals Company

CTS Cement Manufacturing|Komponent®

ASDIP Structural Software

Concrete Fiber Solutions

Geopier® Foundation Company

Phone: 248-848-3800 Email: support@concrete.org Web: www.concrete.org/membership Product: Memberships Description: With 30,000 members in more than 100 countries, ACI is the premier, global community dedicated to the best use of concrete. With enhanced benefits, ACI membership provides information on engineering and construction practices worldwide.

Individual, student, organizational, and sustaining memberships are available.

Phone: 407-284-9202 Email: support@asdipsoft.com Web: www.asdipsoft.com Product: ASDIP CONCRETE Description: Includes easy-to-use intuitive modules for the design of multi-span continuous beams, biaxial slender columns, concrete/masonry bearing walls, and wall opening design, per the latest design codes. ASDIP CONCRETE comes with 3 intuitive modules with powerful interfaces that will substantially simplify timeconsuming calculations for your structural designs.

Phone: 949-405-9161 Email: chromx@cmc.com Web: www.cmc.com/chromx Product: ChromX® Description: High strength rebar with a range of corrosion resistance levels. Designers can select the appropriate level and strength needed, based on the project’s service life. High strength and corrosion resistant properties within the steel result in a reduction in construction costs, shortened build times, reduced congestion issues, and improved safety.

Phone: 847-495-4700 Email: matthewn@concretefibersolutions.com Web: www.concretefibersolutions.com Product: CFS Steel Fibers Description: Provides better shrinkage crack control than rebar or wire mesh because the fibers are evenly mixed throughout the concrete, meeting micro-cracks where they originate to improve performance and finish. CFS Fibers are clean, free from contaminants, and designed to meet or exceed the requirements of ASTM A820.

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Phone: 714-614-7392 Email: sgoodman@ctscement.com Web: www.ctscement.com Product: Komponent, Type K Cement Description: CTS Cement manufactures CSA cements. Our Komponent shrinkage-compensating cement improves overall structural performance and dimensional stability. It prevents volume change due to drying shrinkage, providing numerous constructability advantages while maximizing inservice performance and design life. From slabs-ongrade to post-tension, containment to pavement, delivering value and performance is what we do.

Phone: 704-439-1790 Email: info@geopier.com Web: geopier.com Product: Geopier Rammed Aggregate Pier® and Rigid Inclusions Description: Geopier provides an efficient and costeffective Intermediate Foundation® solution for the support of settlement structures. Our systems have become effective replacements for massive overexcavation and replacement or deep foundations, including driven piles, drilled shafts, or augered cast-inplace piles. Thousands of structures around the world are currently supported by Geopier technologies.

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common and costly challenges related to concrete deterioration, repair, and structural failure. Use Komponent technology to minimize or eliminate control joints, alleviate curling and shrinkage cracking, and reduce repair and maintenance costs.

Komponent technology protects the integrity and durability of the concrete, extends the service life of the installation, and reduces lifecycle costs. It offers the most sustainable concrete solution available.

CTS products have been used on notable landmarks like the Hoover Dam Bypass, the Pentagon, the Lincoln Tunnel, the San FranciscoOakland Bay Bridge, as well as major roadways, airports, commercial and industrial projects worldwide.

CTS’ experienced team of engineers, material scientists, technical experts, and field representatives are available to support your next project. Contact us for assistance with product selection, specifications, samples, mix designs, and more.

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CTS Cement manufactures two of the industry’s leading brands in cement for new concrete construction, restoration, and repair – Rapid Set® and Komponent®.

Rapid Set is a full line of professional-grade cement products made with Rapid Set cement, a Belitic Calcium Sulfoaluminate (BCSA) cement technology. Rapid Set cement emits 32% less CO2 than portland cement because of less fuel, lower temperatures, and less limestone being used in the production process. In addition, since Rapid Set cement concrete lasts longer than portland cement concrete, replacement and maintenance are reduced, which means less pollution is released into the environment.

Rapid Set cement products are engineered for high performance, versatility, low shrinkage, and rapid strength gain – performance characteristics that save significant time and money with reduced installation times, labor requirements, and long-term operations and maintenance costs. Rapid Set gains structural strength in one hour. You can build faster, quickly put the structure or area into full service, and achieve durable, long-lasting results.

Komponent is a line of shrinkage-compensating concrete products made with Type K cement technology. These products prevent

CONCRETE Gripple Inc.

PS=Ø®

Somero® Enterprises

MAX USA Corp.

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Phone: 630-406-0600 Email: e.balsamo@gripple.com Web: www.gripple.com Product: Spider Cast-in-Place Concrete Insert Description: A versatile cast-in-place insert that accommodates threaded rod sizes from 3⁄8 to 3⁄4 inch or Gripple Cable Hangers. For wood form or metal deck, this provides one product solution across the entire project, giving mechanical, electrical, and piping contractors flexibility to determine how they’ll suspend something after the concrete is poured.

Phone: 800-223-4293 Email: yasaba@maxusacorp.com Web: www.maxusacorp.com Product: PowerLite® System Description: Power beyond the limits of standard 100 PSI pneumatic tools with the PowerLite system. Designed with a lightweight body and engineered for heavy-duty applications, PowerLite tools are built to shoot through steel, concrete, and engineered woods.

Phone: 800-355-8414 Email: sales@pourstrip0.com Web: www.pourstrip0.com Product: PS=Ø Steel Reinforcement Splice System Description: Eliminates pour strips and maintains rebar continuity while allowing for volume change.

Using proven coupler technologies recognized worldwide, the PS=Ø system features a tapered thread on one end and a grout-filled sleeve on the other. The system requires no redesign, is an ACI permitted Type 1 and Type 2 mechanical splice, is ICC approved, and made in the USA.

Phone: 949-951-5815 Email: benf@risa.com Web: risa.com Product: ADAPT-PT/RC Description: Internationally-recognized and established analysis and design software for reinforced concrete and post-tensioned slabs and beams. The easy-to-use modeling and design environments enable any user to quickly produce optimized designs and quantity take-offs.

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Phone: 239-210-6519 Email: sales@somero.com Web: www.somero.com Product: Somero SkyScreed® Laser Screed® Machine Description: Introducing the Somero Sky Screed 36.

Through advancements in technology and feedback from our customers, the Somero Sky Screed machine is the first Laser Screed machine in the world to allow screeding on structural high-rise and slab-ongrade applications. The versatile articulating knuckle boom provides unparalleled versatility.

Phone: 716-694-0800 Email: marketing@taylordevices.com Web: www.taylordevices.com Product: Fluid Viscous Dampers Description: Developed for NASA in the 1960s, fluid viscous dampers have successfully transitioned to the civil engineering community for use in protecting buildings, bridges, and other structures worldwide.

These dampers increase structural damping levels to as much as 50% of critical, the results being a dramatic reduction in stress and deflection.

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The HN120 has a selfcleaning end-cap filter that traps any dirt that enters the tool and expels it when the hose is disconnected. This tool needs service approximately every 200,000 shots, a period that is 40x longer than P.A.T.s and 10x longer than gas tools. The tool also takes air from the compressor, not the environment, decreasing the probability of pulling dirt into the tool.

With a driving force of 2,231-inch-lbs, the HN120 drives .307-inch headpins into concrete or steel. The MAX HN120 can shoot a variety of fasteners, and its sequential trigger adds a layer of safety, preventing the nail from firing unless the nose is depressed. MAX recommends disconnecting the air hose when the tool is not in use.

Very versatile, the PowerLite system shoots a wide variety of pins.

PowerLite fasteners come in 50 or 100 pin coils, which require less reloading and save the operator’s time.

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AX is a leading manufacturer of pneumatic nailers, staplers, and specialty tools with approximately 80 years of manufacturing experience. MAX developed the world’s first 500 psi pneumatic system in 1994. This system is designed to give commercial builders an alternative solution for fastening steel and concrete. No certification or license is necessary.

Engineered to perform at a higher standard in cold temperatures, during low voltage scenarios, or as a replacement to tools with strict operational protocols, PowerLite® system tools can easily fasten engineered woods such as LVL and LSL. The system also effectively fastens wood to concrete, wood to I-beam, steel to concrete, and steel to steel.

PowerLite tools are extremely powerful, yet their size is up to 40% smaller and 30% lighter than conventional 100 PSI tools. The MAX PowerLite system provides a hassle-free pneumatic solution for which no license or certification is needed to operate. Because air is used to power the tools, there is no need for warming or cooling of the environment to maintain the PowerLite® system’s performance.

One notable tool from the PowerLite product line is the HN120 concrete/steel pinner. With the ability to actuate between 150320 psi of compressed air flowing into the small tool body, little air is required to shoot fasteners because of the higher air pressure, which brings higher driving power.

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CAST CONNEX

Elegance in Design CAST CONNEX was founded in 2007 with a mission to realize the potential of this research and put castings into service by enabling structural engineers and architects to leverage castings in their building and bridge designs. Since then, the company has put tens of thousands of steel castings into service in hundreds of structures, establishing itself as an enabler of its collaborators’ innovative designs as well as an innovator in its own right.

Today, CAST CONNEX is a rapidly growing multinational organization, and elegance in design remains a core value. To CAST CONNEX, elegance encompasses everything from utility to aesthetics to manufacturability. “All of our solutions are developed with the aim to improve overall structural performance and safety, to simplify steel fabrication and field installation, and to beautify the spaces in which our components are used,” says company President and CEO Carlos de Oliveira.

Company co-founder and Executive Vice President Dr. Michael Gray is equally motivated. “In my ideal world, there would be more incentive to push buildings to higher levels of performance,”

says Gray. “As an industry, we ought to move beyond code minimum; we need to elevate our standards. And not just for structural performance, but for aesthetics in design, too.”

CAST CONNEX Engineers and Technical Sales personnel bring experience in structural engineering consulting and construction to each interaction with specifying practitioners and the construction team for each project.

A Variety of Standardized and Custom Solutions CAST CONNEX offers pre-engineered steel connection solutions ranging in applicability from strictly functional to those ideals for use in architecturally exposed structural steel (AESS) and ranging in weight from 16 pounds to 22 tons. Standardized products are currently available for use in steel, concrete, and timber-steel hybrid construction. The company continues to develop standardized cast steel components.

CAST CONNEX custom cast steel solutions have a virtually limitless scope in application from 10-pound precision machined fittings for custom facades to 10-ton nodes for special structures, are designed to address project-specific needs, and can provide economy in-shop fabrication and field erection as well as create connection details that enable iconic architecture. The company’s design-build services for custom casting supply typically include industrial design and 3-dimensional modeling, engineering including finite element stress analysis, and casting detailing and manufacturing.

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ixteen years ago, a research group at the University of Toronto was established to explore how steel casting manufacturing could be leveraged to simplify and improve conventionally fabricated structural steel connections.

Cast steel alternatives to codified steel connection types ranging from high-seismic to pin connectors were developed through an iterative design process informed by full-scale destructive testing, a close understanding of manufacturing, and industry insights from practitioners in design and construction. The work not only supported the hypothesis that castings can provide dramatically improved structural performance and resilience over conventionally fabricated steel connections but also emphasized the architectural potential of the geometric freedom afforded by casting manufacturing.

BRIDGES American Galvanizers Association Phone: 720-554-0900 Email: marketing@galvanizeit.org Web: https://galvanizeit.org Product: Hot-Dip Galvanized Steel Description: The American Galvanizers Association (AGA) provides technical support on today’s innovative applications and state-of-the-art technological developments in hot-dip galvanizing for corrosion control.

Adhesives Technology Corporation Phone: 754-399-1057 Email: atcinfo@atcepoxy.com Web: www.atcepoxy.com Product: CRACKBOND® Overlays and Sealers Description: BRIDGE-GARD is the world’s most advanced epoxy polymer concrete formulation.

EPOTHANE T3 is a low-modulus, epoxy urethane skid-resistant overlay. V65 HI-MOD, V120 LOWMOD, and V200 HI-MOD: a suite of healer/sealers with varying viscosities and moduli to extend the life of decks and roadways. ATC is a Meridian Adhesives Group Company.

Cast Connex

Phone: 416-806-3521 Email: info@castconnex.com Web: www.castconnex.com Product: Standardized Cast Steel Connectors and Custom Cast Steel Connectors Description: The industry leader in the architectural and structural use of cast steel components in the design and construction of building and bridge structures. Our products include pre-engineered connectors that simplify the design and enhance the performance of structures. We also offer design-build services for custom cast steel nodes and components.

Product: Cast Steel Nodes Description: The use of cast steel nodes in steel bridge structures can provide improved fatigue performance, enhanced structural resilience, and can reduce the total life-cycle cost of pedestrian, road, and rail bridges.

CintecReinforcement Systems Ltd

Phone: 613-225-3381 Email: rlr@cintec.com Web: www.cintec.com Product: Archtec Description: Complete diagnostic, design, and installation service, using state-of-the-art technology and drilling methods. Specially designed to strengthen masonry arch bridges internally, while preserving historical value. This novel system of internal strengthening involves inserting and grouting stainless steel reinforcing bars into the masonry. Stainless steel and a high-performance grout enhance durability.

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Dlubal Software, Inc.

Phone: 267-702-2815 Email: info-us@dlubal.com Web: www.dlubal.com Product: RFEM Description: Capable of linear, non-linear, static, and dynamic analysis, RFEM is complete with moving load generation (AASHTO library), influence lines, cable form-finding, parametric modeling, and multimaterial design considerations. This FEA software is seamless in the design and analysis of pedestrian and highway cable-stayed, suspension, arch, and beam bridge structures.

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New Millennium Building Systems

Phone: 260-969-3500 Email: gerald.arvay@newmill.com Web: www.newmill.com Product: Bridge-Dek® Description: Suitable for new bridge construction and rehabilitation, Bridge-Dek stay-in-place deck forming systems offer your project ease and speed of construction, safety, durability, and longevity.

Bridge-Dek is made of high-strength galvanized steel to meet design requirements of steel and concrete bridge structures.

POSTEN Engineering Systems Dynamic Isolation Systems

Phone: 775-359-3333 Email: sales@dis-inc.com Web: www.dis-inc.com Product: Lead Rubber Bearing Description: For Base Isolation of bridges. Allow bridges to survive earthquakes with no damage while providing cost savings on substructures due to reduced forces. They require no maintenance and are extremely durable.

Hexagon

Phone: 346-260-8798 Email: andrea.velazquez@hexagon.com Web: https://hexagonppm.com Product: GT STRUDL Description: A trusted, general-purpose beam and FEA solution. Bridge engineers can leverage the power of the moving load generator, truss wizard for quick model generation, ability to model sloped and skewed geometry, and perform staged construction and cable or dynamic analysis to solve complex projects.

ICC-ES

Phone: 800-423-6587 Email: es@icc-es.org Web: www.icc-es.org Product: Evaluation Service Description: A nonprofit, limited liability company, ICC-ES is the leading evaluation service for innovative building materials, components, and systems. ICC-ES Evaluation Reports (ESRs), Building Product Listings, and PMG Listings provide evidence that products and systems meet requirements of codes and technical standards.

ICC-ES is a member of the ICC family of solutions.

Phone: 510-275-4750 Email: sales@postensoft.com Web: www.postensoft.com Product: POSTEN Description: The most efficient and comprehensive post-tensioned concrete software in the world that, unlike other software, not only automatically designs the tendons, drapes, as well as columns, but also produces highly efficient, cost saving, sustainable designs with automatic documentation of material savings for LEED. The others simply Analyze – POSTEN DESIGNS.

RISA

Phone: 949-951-5815 Email: benf@risa.com Web: risa.com Product: RISA 3-D Description: With RISA 3-D’s versatile modeling environment and intuitive graphical interface, you can model structures like pedestrian bridges in minutes. Get the most out of your model with advanced features such as moving loads, dynamic analysis, and over 40 design codes. Structural design has never been so easy!

S-FRAME Software

Phone: 203-421-4800 Email: info@s-frame.com Web: s-frame.com Product: S-FRAME Analysis Description: Model, analyze, and design structures regardless of geometric complexity, material type, loading conditions, nonlinear effects or seismic loads.

Integrated concrete design, foundation design, and steel design maximizes your productivity. Our continued investment in R&D gives users the latest analysis advantages and dedicated technical backing.

S-FRAME for faster, better, advanced analysis.

Trimble LUSAS

Phone: 646-732-7774 Email: info@lusas.com Web: www.lusas.com Product: LUSAS Bridge Description: Use to analyze, design, and assess all types of bridge structures and investigate soil/structure interaction effects. Recent releases have extended the engineer’s workflow from analysis into steel and RC frame design, and improved prestress, concrete modeling, and vehicle and rail loading capabilities.

Phone: 678-737-7379 Email: jodi.hendrixson@trimble.com Web: www.tekla.com/us Product: Tekla Structures Description: First class structural software for steel, concrete, wood, and composite bridge structures and details. Tekla Structures increases productivity through higher automation of fabrication and 4-D product management. Drawings and reports automated generally from the constructible 3-D model. The detailed model can bring efficiency to bridge maintenance and repairs.

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CoreBrace

Phone: 801-280-0701 Email: brandt.saxey@corebrace.com Web: www.corebrace.com Product: CoreBrace Buckling Restrained Brace Description: CoreBrace, world leader in Buckling Restrained Brace (BRB) design and fabrication, offers a cost-effective and efficient solution for energy dissipation by minimizing forces that buildings must be designed to accommodate, including new construction and retrofits. The CoreBrace team of engineers and experts are available to work with your design team.

Gripple Inc.

Phone: 754-399-1057 Email: atcinfo@atcepoxy.com Web: www.atcepoxy.com Product: ULTRABOND® and CRACKBOND® Adhesives Description: America’s #1 structural adhesive specialist offers four IBC compliant, wind- and seismic-rated adhesives, including HS-1CC, the world’s strongest anchoring epoxy. And CRACKBOND ACCUGROUT HD is a high strength grout designed for onshore and offshore wind farm installations. ATC is a Meridian Adhesives Group Company.

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Lindapter International

Phone: 416-806-3521 Email: info@castconnex.com Web: www.castconnex.com Product: Cast Bolted Brackets Description: Prequalified connectors for special and intermediate steel moment frames per AISC 358 and can be used in the retrofit of seismically deficient steel moment framed buildings or in new construction.

Product: High Strength Connectors™ Description: Standardized, capacity-designed brace end connectors that accommodate bolted double-shear connection between round HSS braces and a typical corner gusset plate.

Phone: 801-727-4060 Email: contact@durafuseframes.com Web: www.durafuseframes.com Product: DF360 Description: Steel moment frames with one-of-a-kind resilience, exceptional performance, and improved economy. Seismic energy is dissipated without beam or column damage, minimizing post-earthquake repair cost and duration. Versatile solutions apply to all building types and hazard categories with DuraFuse Frames engineers as seamless extensions of your team providing economical, resilient designs.

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Phone: 630-406-0600 Email: e.balsamo@gripple.com Web: www.gripple.com Product: Gripple Seismic Cable Bracing Systems Description: Specifically designed and engineered to brace and secure suspended nonstructural equipment and components within a building or structure.

Suitable for bracing new or retrofit installations in a variety of configurations. Ready-to-use kits, fast to install, no tools required, four color-coded kit sizes.

Phone: 866-566-2658 Email: inquiries@lindapter.com Web: www.lindapter.com Product: Hollo-Bolt Description: The original expansion bolt for structural steel; ICC approved for Seismic Design Categories A through F. The Hollo-Bolt is quickly installed from one side of the steel by simply inserting the fastener into a pre-drilled hole and tightening with a torque wrench, saving time and money.

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5. Minimized strengthening of existing structural members and foundations 6. Availability of advanced modeling and sustainability design aids 7. Integration with structural analysis and detailing software packages 8. Replaceability after a major seismic event, if necessary CoreBrace designs and manufactures all products within its AISC Certified facility utilizing in-house designers, engineers, project management, and sales staff. Added to these capabilities is a strong commitment to collaboration. CoreBrace provides attention to detail that is unmatched in the industry. Through dedication to continuous improvement and innovation, CoreBrace is a progressive company always looking for new perspectives, opportunities to improve, ways to excel, and methods to outperform. CoreBrace provides its clients with confidence that their project is built to the highest standards, using the best options and latest modern approaches available. The global success of CoreBrace is the result of a worldwide need for reliable seismic solutions to protect structures from the devastating effects of earthquakes. CoreBrace provides its clients with complete dependability, high-quality assurance, and customized schedule performance on every project.

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oreBrace, as a world leader in the construction industry, offers innovative technology to achieve high-performance, resilient structures. CoreBrace designs and fabricates Buckling Restrained Braces (BRBs), seismic protection devices that provide stable energy dissipation, which helps to create safe and sustainable buildings.

BRBs provide a cost-effective and highly efficient solution that allows structures to withstand earthquake demands and continue to be operational after a seismic event. CoreBrace BRBs have been successfully utilized in a wide variety of structures, including high-rise towers, hospitals, schools, stadiums, and industrial facilities in locations such as Azerbaijan, New Zealand, Thailand, Guam, Chile, Mexico, and nearly every state in the United States. CoreBrace’s continuous R&D program provides unparalleled service and extensive support to Design Teams, Steel Fabricators and Erectors, Detailers, and General Contractors during the various stages of a project. This approach offers numerous advantages, including among others: 1. Reduced earthquake forces on the structure and foundation 2. Simple connections to the structural system for faster erection 3. Stable hysteretic behavior through multiple design level events 4. Convenient solution for seismic retrofit or upgrade applications

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Trimble

Phone: 888-724-2323 Email: inquiries@lnasolutions.com Web: www.lnasolutions.com Product: BoxBolt® Description: BoxBolt Type C is a blind bolt fastener that is ICC ESR-3217 approved for seismic design. It connects tube steel or where access is restricted to one side of structural steel and is used with rectangular, square, or circulation sections. Provides fast, easy installation. IAS certification guarantees load value.

Phone: 800-223-4293 Email: yasaba@maxusacorp.com Web: www.maxusacorp.com Product: PowerLite® System Description: Power beyond the limits of standard 100 PSI pneumatic tools with the PowerLite system.

Designed with a lightweight body and engineered for heavy-duty applications, PowerLite tools are built to shoot through steel, concrete, and engineered woods.

Phone: 949-951-5815 Email: benf@risa.com Web: risa.com Product: RISA-3D Description: Feeling overwhelmed with the latest seismic design procedures? RISA-3D has you covered with seismic detailing features including full AISC341/358 code checks and buckling restrained braces from Corebrace. Using automated seismic load generator or the built-in dynamic response spectra & time history analysis/design, get designs and reports that meet all your needs.

Phone: 800-925-5099 Email: web@strongtie.com Web: www.strongtie.com Product: High Wind-Resistant Construction Application Guide Description: This guide discusses the critical elements of high wind-resistant construction and helps you locate the connectors and fasteners you need for designing in high-wind areas. It also includes information on the effects of wind, corrosion, and uplift to help ensure safe, strong structures.

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Phone: 800-838-0899 Email: trevor.solie@skyciv.com Web: skyciv.com/wind-load-calculator Product: Wind/Snow Load Generator Description: Get rid of your design criteria Excel spreadsheet with the SkyCiv Load Generator. Quickly generate wind and snow design loads for your structure. Take advantage of SkyCiv’s analysis and design tools to complete your structural workflow, directly from an internet browser with no installation necessary.

Phone: 678-737-7379 Email: jodi.hendrixson@trimble.com Web: www.tekla.com/us Product: Tekla Structural Designer Description: Built-in loading wizards automatically calculate all wind and seismic forces, generate design cases, and optimize the design of steel and concrete members to the latest AISC, ACI, and ASCE 7 design codes. With Tekla Structural Designer, engineers can review detailed calculations with code clauses and print complete reports for review submittals.

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DURAFUSE FRAMES • Fewer parts, less fit-up, and less connection weight compared to other proprietary moment connections DuraFuse Frames enjoys full compliance with performance requirements in AISC 341 with code approvals from IAPMO UES ER 610, including 2018 IBC, 2019 CBC, and 2020 LA Supplements. Multiple Technical Bulletins have been published to provide additional resources related to performance, modeling, and design. DuraFuse Frames products are available in RAM Structural Systems, Revit, SDS2, and Tekla.

The DuraFuse Frames research, engineering, and design teams are constantly improving the modeling, analysis, and design process to ensure efficient, high performance, and resilient design solutions with quick response times. Our team is looking for opportunities to work with you. We are happy to provide a resilient design alternative using DuraFuse Frames based on your design specifications, meet with you to provide more details on DuraFuse Frames, or provide an in-person technical presentation on DuraFuse Frames systems.

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uraFuse Frames systems are highly ductile steel moment frames with one-of-a-kind resilience, exceptional performance, and improved economy. Seismic energy is dissipated through an innovative fuse plate which prevents beam and column damage. The bottom flange fuse plate and all-bolted connection assembly minimize postearthquake repair duration and cost. After an event, only the fuse plate is replaced. The variety of DuraFuse Frames connection configurations provides the ideal moment-frame solution for all building types in all Seismic Design Categories. Our design and engineering team is dedicated to being a seamless extension of your design team to provide structurally efficient, economical, and uniquely resilient steel momentframes. The benefits of DuraFuse Frames include: • The ONLY resilient, repairable connections • Added panel zone stiffness results in a reduction of overall frame weight • Significant reduction (up to 70%) in seismic lateral beam bracing requirements • No protected zone in the beam • No field welding or inspection requirements • No seismic compactness requirements or span-to-depth limits for beams

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WOOD American Wood Council Phone: 202-463-2766 Email: info@awc.org Web: www.awc.org Product: Connection Calculator Description: Provides users with a web-based approach to calculating capacities for single bolts, nails, lag screws, and wood screws per the 2015 NDS. Both lateral (single and double shear) and withdrawal capacities can be determined. Wood-to-wood, wood-toconcrete, and wood-to-steel connections are possible.

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RedBuilt

Product: Tekla Tedds Description: Using Tekla Tedds, design a range of wood elements and produce detailed and transparent documentation for beams (single span, multi-span and cantilever), wood columns, sawn lumber, engineered wood, glulam and flitch options, shear walls (multiple openings: segmented or perforated) and connections (bolted, screwed, nailed, wood/wood, and wood/steel).

Phone: 630-406-0600 Email: e.balsamo@gripple.com Web: www.gripple.com Product: Spider Cast-in-Place Concrete Insert Description: Versatile cast-in-place insert that accommodates threaded rod sizes from 3⁄8- to 3⁄4-inch or Gripple Cable Hangers. For wood form or metal deck, provides one product solution across the entire project, giving mechanical, electrical, and piping contractors flexibility to determine how they will suspend something after the concrete is poured.

Canfor EWP

Phone: 870-310-8168 Email: chris.webb@canfor.com Web: www.anthonyforest.com Product: Power Beam® Description: Designed for use as primary support beams. Power Beam compliments Mass Timber wood framing systems. The strongest engineered wood product (EWP) on the market with design values of 3000Fb - 2.1E - 300Fv. Power Beam is manufactured with superior strength southern yellow pine MSR Lumber.

Product: Power Column® Description: Manufactured with superior strength southern yellow pine MSR Lumber. Power Column compliments Mass Timber wood framing systems.

Available in a range of appearance grades for structural and architectural applications. Framing members such as Power Beam® can easily be attached to Power Column with simple connection detailing.

Product: Power Preserved Glulam® Description: Durable long-term solution for most exterior non-marine use structural applications.

Power Preserved Glulam is offered in two preservative treatments: Clear-Guard® and Cop-Guard®. Both preservatives are applied to Power Preserved Glulam through vacuum pressure impregnation per American Wood Protection Associations (AWPA) Standards.

CAST CONNEX

Phone: 416-806-3521 Email: info@castconnex.com Web: www.castconnex.com Product: Timber End Connectors™ Description: Clevis-type fittings designed to connect to the ends of heavy timber or glue-laminated structural elements loaded in predominately tension or compression for use in architecturally exposed applications. Visit our website to view the TEC and our custom cast steel connectors for timber projects.

ENERCALC, Inc.

ENERCALC Phone: 800-424-2252 Email: info@enercalc.com Web: https://enercalc.com Product: ENERCALC/Structural Engineering Library Description: Designing with wood? Test your designs faster using ENERCALC Structural Engineering Library. SEL includes manufacturer data for Microllam, Parallam, Gang-Lam LVL, Timber Strand, VersaLam, GP Lam LVL, RedLam LVL, RigidLam, X-Beam, and Anthony. Extensive section data for solid-sawn and glued-laminated product accelerates traditional project designs.

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Phone: 406-586-8988 Email: info@iesweb.com Web: www.iesweb.com Product: VisualAnalysis Description: Whether you need a simple glue laminated beam design, an entire roof truss system, or post and frame modeling, VisualAnalysis is fast and easy to use. Create models quickly and get NDS code checks for all the members in your project.

Phone: 866-859-6757 Email: info@redbuilt.com Web: www.redbuilt.com Product: Red-I™ joists, RedLam™ LVL and Red-OW Trusses Description: Structural solutions developed to optimize the design of your project and have become an integral part of floor, roof, and ceiling framing.

Visit the Resources section of the website for the complete list of Specifier’s Guides.

RISA

Phone: 949-951-5815 Email: info@risa.com Web: risa.com Product: RISAFloor and RISA-3D Description: Premiere software package for wood design. Create 3-D models of your entire structure and get complete design of wood walls, flexible wood diaphragms, dimensional lumber, glulams, parallams, LVL’s and joists. Custom databases for species, design of strap and hold-downs, as well as panel nailing offer total flexibility.

Product: RISACalc Description: RISACalc brings the power and flexibility of RISA-3D to the cloud, allowing engineers to create, load, and design individual components in a web-based interface. Whether engineered wood beams or columns, RISACalc’s interactive platform allows for detailed reporting and seamless collaboration, ensuring that daily structural design tasks are completed with ease.

Phone: 203-421-4800 Email: info@s-frame.com Web: s-frame.com Product: S-TIMBER Description: Sustainable Building Design with S-TIMBER 2020. Recent update for Mass Timber and Hybrid Timber structural analysis and design solution includes advanced analysis capabilities, orthotropic materials, and enhanced timber design reporting. Flexible enough to adapt to all user needs; backed by over 35 years of structural engineering expertise.

Phone: 678-737-7379 Email: jodi.hendrixson@trimble.com Web: www.tekla.com/us Product: Tekla Structures Description: Can be used for wood framing: True BIM model of wood framing; parametric components allow for easy creation and design change; easily add or move doors and windows; library of industry standard wood connections included; clash checking functionality to eliminate change orders. Easily customizable to suit any job requirements.

WoodWorks® Software

Phone: 800-844-1275 Email: sales@woodworks-software.com Web: www.woodworks-software.com Product: WoodWorks Design Office Suite Description: Conforms to IBC 2015, ASCE 7-10, NDS 2015, SDPWS 2015. SHEARWALLS: designs perforated and segmented shearwalls; generates loads; rigid and flexible diaphragm distribution methods. SIZER: designs beams, columns, studs, joists up to 6 stories; automatic load patterning. CONNECTIONS: Wood-to-wood, wood-to-steel, or wood-to-concrete.

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GI Sentinel is recognized as one of the premier building manufacturers providing high-quality all-steel buildings globally. Founded in 1987 in Albion, Nebraska, Sentinel Building Systems began as a one-man operation selling Quonset buildings over the telephone. Today, AGI Sentinel building is a full-line building manufacturer that includes engineering through manufacturing and supplies optional accessories to meet customer expectations. AGI Sentinel provides buildings to a wide range of markets, including commercial, industrial, agricultural, retail, and storage, for a global customer base.

All AGI Sentinel buildings are designed and fabricated according to AISI and AISC specifications, and each building is manufactured and shipped from one central location. AGI Sentinel is an IAS accredited building manufacturer and is a member of the Metal Building Manufacturers Association (MBMA). MBMA members

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are committed to providing quality products that meet customer requirements while maintaining a focus on safety, sustainability, and customer and team member engagement to accomplish continuous improvement throughout. AGI Sentinel engineers are registered professionals, and all welders are AWS certified.

The focus is on delivering optimal solutions for customers seeking top quality, reliable structures at an affordable price. All-steel structures are durable, sustainable, and eco-friendly. In addition, steel buildings are highly efficient in material utilization and prefabrication, allowing for shorter construction time on-site.

Choosing all-steel buildings ensures easy expansion and minimal

maintenance for customers. AGI Sentinel focuses on simplifying the buying process for our customers by providing a consultative selling process to assist customers through defining building expectations and offering alternatives to get the most economical building that meets all the customers’ expectations. With more than 30 years of experience, AGI Sentinel has the expertise and fabrication capabilities to develop unique builds for customers.

The buildings are designed and constructed based on each customer’s individual expectations and requirements. The Plainsman model is one of AGI Sentinel’s premier products designed to work well for commercial, industrial, aviation, cattle, riding, farm, retail, office, business, government, and recreational buildings. This versatile product is widely recognized as one of the finest all-steel buildings on the market today. AGI Sentinel building focus is to utilize the highest quality materials. In addition to high-quality materials, Sentinel also pays attention to the small details by providing all fasteners and sealing materials to ensure your build-

ing is weathertight in the most inclement weather. AGI Sentinel also provides accessory components to include windows, doors, insulation packages, and more. Our Self-Storage product provides customers with endless possibilities. AGI Sentinel’s experienced building consultants and engineers can help create unique selfstorage systems that generate maximum profitability at the lowest possible cost regardless of space limitations.

AGI Sentinel goes to great lengths to ensure that customers have no reason to go anywhere else. We provide an unbeatable combination of quality, versatility, value, and support, making AGI Sentinel Building Systems the ideal choice.

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Simpson Strong-Tie®

Phone: 754-399-1057 Email: atcinfo@atcepoxy.com Web: www.atcepoxy.com Product: ULTRABOND® Anchoring and Doweling Adhesives Description: America’s #1 structural adhesive specialist offers four IBC compliant adhesives. HS1CC, the world’s strongest anchoring epoxy. New EPX-3CC high-performance epoxy for high-volume applications. New HYB-2CC hybrid cures fast in hot and cold temperatures. ACRYL-8CC cures fast with a very broad application temperature range. ATC is a Meridian Adhesives Group Company.

Phone: 801-727-4060 Email: contact@durafuseframes.com Web: www.durafuseframes.com Product: DF360 Description: Steel moment frames with one-of-a-kind resilience, exceptional performance, and improved economy. Seismic energy is dissipated without beam or column damage, minimizing post-earthquake repair cost and duration. Versatile solutions apply to all building types and hazard categories with DuraFuse Frames engineers as seamless extensions of your team providing economical, resilient designs.

Phone: 800-999-5099 Email: web@strongtie.com Web: www.strongtie.com Product: 304|316 Stainless-Steel Titen HD® Heavy-Duty Screw Anchor Description: Now available in Type 304 and 316 stainless steel. Type 316 is the optimal choice for applications in corrosive environments such as near chemicals or saltwater. Type 304 is a cost-effective solution for less extreme applications, including in wet, moist, or damp environments.

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Phone: 00-972-77-5020696 Email: office@adit.org.il Web: www.adit.org.il Product: Adit Design Anchor Guide 2021 Description: Designing internationally? The Guide allows you to easily consult all the factors used to design anchors in a user-friendly environment. The new version is only available in Hebrew and can be downloaded from the website.

Phone: 800-424-2252 Email: info@enercalc.com Web: https://enercalc.com Product: ENERCALC Structural Engineering Library Description: Our latest improvements to SEL include our new Flitch Plated Wood Beam module and new Steel Base Plate by FEM. Both modules can help designers refine their design loads on the anchor rods, common bolts, and framing anchors. Structural Engineering Library subscriptions now provide both installed and cloud use.

ASDIP Structural Software Phone: 407-284-9202 Email: support@asdipsoft.com Web: www.asdipsoft.com Product: ASDIP STEEL Description: Includes the design of biaxial base plates, anchor rods, and shear lugs, per ACI 318-19. Easily generate detailed reports for complex anchorage design calculations, including the ACI seismic provisions. Both ASD and LRFD can be specified. Load combinations per ASCE 7-05, ASCE 7-10/16, or user-defined.

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Hohmann & Barnard, Inc. Phone: 800-645-0616 Email: jenniferm@h-b.com Web: h-b.com Product: 2-SEAL Thermal Wing Nut Anchor Description: An innovative, single screw veneer tie for metal stud construction. It features a dualdiameter barrel with factory-installed EPDM washers to seal both the face of the insulation and the air/ vapor barrier, and unique Thermal Wings designed to decrease thermal transfer through rigid insulation.

DEWALT Anchors & Fasteners Phone: 800-524-3244 Email: anchors@dewalt.com Web: http://anchors.dewalt.com/anchors Product: CCU+ Critical Connection Undercut™ Description: DEWALT Anchors & Fasteners launches a new heavy-duty concrete anchor for use in critical applications where a robust anchor with low displacement is necessary. The CCU+ Critical Connection Undercut is ICC-ES qualified under ESR-4810 for use in cracked and uncracked concrete.

The anchors are Made in the USA.

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Trimble Phone: 678-737-7379 Email: jodi.hendrixson@trimble.com Web: www.tekla.com/us Product: Tekla Tedds Description: Automating your every day structural designs, the Tekla Tedds’ library includes anchor bolt design per ACI 318 Appendix D. The calculation includes comprehensive checks for tensile and shear failure of anchors and is available as part of a free trial by visiting the website.

Product: Tekla Structures Description: An Open BIM modeling software that can model all types of anchors required to create a 100% constructible 3-D model. Anchors can be created inside the software or imported directly from vendors that provide 3-D CAD files of their products.

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Wej-It High-Performance Anchors

Phone: 800-707-0816 Email: info@iesweb.com Web: www.iesweb.com Product: VAConnect Description: Design base plates by AISC Design Guide #1 and anchorage calculations for ACI 318.

Both, independently, are difficult by hand! With VAConnect you will get the job done quickly and accurately. Works alone or with IES VisualAnalysis.

Phone: 203-523-5833 Email: julien@toggler.com Web: www.wejit.com Product: POWER-Skru Large Diameter Concrete Screw Description: A high-strength screw anchor with self-tapping threads that offers a unique undercutting design for anchoring into concrete and masonry. No secondary setting is needed. The POWER-Skru Large Diameter Concrete Screw provides high-strength performance with low installation torque. A heavyduty mechanically-galvanized finish is available to enhance corrosion resistance.

LNA Solutions, Inc.

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Phone: 888-724-2323 Email: inquiries@lnasolutions.com Web: www.LNAsolutions.com Product: Box Bolt® Description: A blind bolt fastener that is ICC ESR-3217 approved for seismic design. It connects tube steel or where access is restricted to one side of structural steel and is used with rectangular, square, or circulation sections. Provides fast, easy installation.

IAS certification guarantees load value.

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Williams Form Engineering Corp.

Phone: 616-866-0815 Email: williams@williamsform.com Web: www.williamsform.com Product: Anchor Systems Description: Williams Form Engineering Corporation has been providing threaded steel bars and accessories for rock anchors, soil anchors, high capacity concrete anchors, micropiles, tie rods, tiebacks, strand anchors, hollow bar anchors, post tensioning systems, and concrete forming hardware systems in the construction industry for over 95 years.

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n 1986, Somero Enterprises was founded and so marked the first industry-wide revolution upon which the company would embark. Dave and Paul Somero were concrete contractors, and they knew that a machine could get them better quality floors with more efficiency, all with a faster process than the current manual methods of placing concrete. Not wanting to wait on a company to manufacture the machines that would deliver this Faster.Flatter.Fewer solution, they took it upon themselves, and 35 years later, the idea of doing big, quality-driven slab-on-grade projects without a Somero® Laser Screed® Machine is almost unthinkable.

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With this same industry-changing mindset and self-reliance in our DNA, we are embarking on our second revolutionary machine innovation – The SkyLine machine line. Consisting of the SkyScreed® 36 and 25 Laser Screed® Machines and the SkyStrip Machine, we are looking to partner with the structural

high-rise market and deliver quality, safety, and efficiencies never thought possible for concrete floors in this space.

The SkyScreed brings the precision and speed of the laser screed machine to structural projects, and we promise you will not believe the numbers when you hear them. With the right project profile and layouts, the SkyScreed 36 has achieved Fl numbers in the mid-to-high 30s and, in some cases, the low-to-mid 40s. The early adopters of this technology have been blown away, and we believe that it is just a matter of time before the SkyScreed will be the rule on high-rise projects all over North America.

The second machine in the SkyLine machine line is the SkyStrip.

This machine focuses on solving the dangerous and slow process of stripping shoring sheets. This machine is engineered to strip the plywood sheets, lower them to safe hand-off height, and keep going for as long as it takes. Put simply, this machine saves the shoring team a lot of fatigue and keeps them fresh for the more critical, higher-skilled aspects of their jobs. In addition, when job claims and skilled labor shortages keep a developer up at night, this machine will help them all sleep a little easier.

To learn about how the SkyLine machines can revolutionize your projects and provide unparalleled quality, value, and safety to your customers, contact Somero or go to the website to learn more and see these revolutionary machines in action.

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Geopier® Foundation Company

ASDIP Structural Software

IES, Inc.

Phone: 754-399-1057 Email: atcinfo@atcepoxy.com Web: www.atcepoxy.com Product: CONVERGENT Concrete Densification and Finishing Products Description: Adhesives Technology Corporation has acquired Convergent Concrete Technologies, the industry leader in concrete densifiers, hardeners, and finishes. ATC now offers Pentra® products, including Nano-Lithium® technology and Reactive Silicon Hybrid Polymers, and new silica-free, Strontiumbased STRiON® formulas. From densifiers and cures to hardeners and paints, ATC provides innovation engineered to outperform.

Phone: 407-284-9204 Email: support@asdipsoft.com Web: www.asdipsoft.com Product: ASDIP FOUNDATION Description: An advanced software for quick and efficient design of concrete footings, such as isolated spread footings, two-column combined footings, strap footings, wall footings, and pile caps.

See immediate graphical results, calculations, and detailed or condensed reports with exposed formulas and code references. ASDIP FOUNDATION comes with 5 intuitive modules.

Phone: 704-439-1790 Email: info@geopier.com Web: geopier.com Product: Geopier Rammed Aggregate Pier® and Rigid Inclusions Description: Geopier provides an efficient and cost-effective Intermediate Foundation® solution for the support of settlement structures. Our systems have become effective replacements for massive over-excavation and replacement or deep foundations, including driven piles, drilled shafts, or augered cast-in-place piles. Thousands of structures around the world are currently supported

by Geopier technologies.

Phone: 949-951-5815 Email: benf@risa.com Web: risa.com Product: RISAFoundation Description: The latest release of RISAFoundation (Version 13) includes full integration with the RISA Building System and adds new features such as expanded load categories, the ability to exclude results, code updates to ACI, and enhanced seismicity. Visit risa.com/new-features/risafoundation to learn about all the new features.

S-FRAME Software

Phone: 406-586-8988 Email: info@iesweb.com Web: www.iesweb.com Product: VisualFoundation Description: Stability calculations alone for a mat footing can drive you mad, not to mention the nonlinear analysis required for soil-supported models. VisualFoundation simplifies advanced FEA, making your work fast and professional.

VisualFoundation handles punching shear, combined footings, grade beams, pile caps and will pay for itself with two jobs.

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Phone: 203-421-4800 Email: info@s-frame.com Web: s-frame.com Product: S-CONCRETE, S-LINE and S-FOUNDATION Description: The concrete design capabilities in S-CONCRETE, S-LINE, and S-FOUNDATION incorporate not only the best concrete design principles but state-of-the-art analysis techniques.

Designed to be powerful and also easy to use.

S-FRAME Software is the proud solution provider of proven and trusted structural and civil engineering software.

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Design Guide 27. In addition, BlindBolts have been accredited in accordance with AC437 (ICC-ES evaluation report ESR-3617), so they can be specified and used with complete confidence.

For thinner material, including cold-rolled sections, steel sheet, and cladding, the TWBolt (thin wall) is the recommended fixing.

The fixing is blind, with no requirement to access the second side.

The self-contained fixing is inserted and tightened with an electric driver while holding the external nut in a spanner. Expanding legs on the inside splay over a specially-shaped ferrule, clamping the elements together. Quick to install with a neat low-profile finish, the TWBolt is ideal for thinner material – typically 3⁄64 to ¼ inch.

TWBolts have a high shear resistance and are equally capable in tension – the resistance is limited by the deformation of the material, not the fixing.

Comprehensive product data, design resistances, and installation videos are available on the website.

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lindBolt manufactures a range of fixings that do precisely what the name implies – they are connectors for steelwork when access is only from one side. It may be that access to the “blind” side is impossible, such as connections to hollow sections, or simply that one-sided access is convenient or leads to faster installation – a typical situation when working at height.

For heavier loads and connections between beams, columns, and similar, BlindBolts are the obvious choice. These fasteners have a gravity-operated toggle secured within the bolt’s shank. The fixing is inserted, turned by 180˚, and the toggle rotates to become an anchor on the blind face of the connection. The fixing can then simply be tightened and the joint completed. The exciting features of the BlindBolt are that they use ordinary tolerance holes, meaning some adjustment of the connection is possible. Also, the fixings are removable – simply loosen the nut, rotate the bolt, and remove.

There is no concern about the engagement of the toggle – a simple gauge can be used to check that the toggle has rotated in position.

Every bolt has a mark on the shank to indicate its orientation.

Designed as bearing-type connections and to be installed to snugtight, the BlindBolt is available in carbon steel (145 ksi) and stainless steel (100 ksi) in a range of diameters up to 13⁄16 inch and is suitable for shear, tension, or a combination of both. The resistances have been proven by test and verified in accordance with AISC 360 and AISC

MASONRY Concrete Masonry Association of CA & NV

IES, Inc.

Simpson Strong-Tie®

Phone: 916-722-1700 Email: info@cmacn.org Web: www.cmacn.org Product: CMD18 Description: Structural design of reinforced concrete and clay hollow unit masonry elements for design of masonry elements in accordance with provisions of Ch. 21 of 2010 through 2019 CBC or 2009 through 2018 IBC and 2008 through 2016 Building Code Requirements for Masonry Structures (TMS 402).

Phone: 406-586-8988 Email: info@iesweb.com Web: www.iesweb.com Product: QuickMasonry Description: To eliminate the guesswork in TMS 402/602 masonry design, turn to QuickMasonry. It designs or checks masonry walls, columns, pilasters, and lintels. Its “Transparent Reporting” lets anyone check your calculations as if you had painstakingly written them by hand. QuickMasonry is value-priced, easy to use, and the best tool available.

Hohmann & Barnard, Inc.

Larsen Products Corp.

The Masonry Society

Phone: 800-645-0616 Email: jenniferm@h-b.com Web: h-b.com Product: Thermal Brick Support System Description: A groundbreaking brick veneer support system that reduces thermal bridging in relief angles, to improve the energy efficiency of your building. Features of our TBS system include allowance for continuous insulation behind the support angle, which saves installation time and improves energy efficiency.

Phone: 800-633-6668 Email: jlarsen@larsenproducts.com Web: www.larsenproducts.com Product: Weld-Crete® Description: A chemical concrete bonding agent incorporates polyvinyl acetate homopolymer in a patented formulation. For exterior and interior use, Weld-Crete will bond new concrete, Portland cement plaster, and cementitious mixes to structurally sound concrete floors, walls, columns, beams, steps, and ramps.

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Phone: 800-999-5099 Email: web@strongtie.com Web: www.strongtie.com Product: Fabric-Reinforced Cementitious Matrix (FRCM) Description: FRCM combines a high-performance sprayable mortar with a carbon-fiber grid to create a thin structural layer that doesn’t add significant weight or volume to an existing structure. FRCM can be used to repair and strengthen concrete and masonry structures for seismic retrofit or load upgrades.

Contact us for design support.

Phone: 303-939-9700 Email: info@masonrysociety.org Web: masonrysociety.org Product: Masonry Codes and Standards Description: The Masonry Society is a non-profit, professional organization of volunteer Members, dedicated to the advancement of masonry knowledge.

Through our Members, all aspects of masonry are discussed. The results are disseminated to provide guidance to the masonry and technical community on various aspects of masonry design, construction, evaluation, and repair.

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Are You Looking To Practice in Multiple States?

Options for Active-Duty Military and Military Spouses Professional engineers and surveyors actively serving in the military, and their spouses, are eligible to transmit their NCEES Record at no charge when military orders require them to move to a new state. When transmitted to a state licensing board, it will include a military designation to prioritize the application. Please email military@ncees.org for more information.

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he National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing professional licensure for engineers and surveyors.

Many professional engineers find that their careers require them to be licensed in more than one state. To do this, a P.E. must apply for comity licensure in additional states.

The NCEES Records program is designed for currently-licensed engineers and surveyors looking for an easier and faster way to complete the licensure process in multiple jurisdictions, including all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. An established NCEES Record will include most – if not all – of the materials you need to apply for comity licensure in additional states and territories.

Eliminate having to resubmit your: College transcripts; Exam results; Employment verifications; and Professional references.

If you are already licensed and want to apply for licensure in an additional U.S. state or territory, apply for an NCEES Record.

NCEES reviews your materials and, after your Record is established, electronically submits them directly to the licensing board on your behalf. This saves time and simplifies the application process when you need to practice in multiple states and territories.

Initial Licensure Are you in the process of becoming licensed and want to establish an NCEES Record? If you have passed the FE and PE exam, some states will allow you to use the NCEES Record for initial licensure.

A limited number of boards offer the initial licensing process, so check your MyNCEES account to find out if this is a path for you. Discover if an NCEES Record is right for you by visiting www.ncees.org/records.

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STEEL Advant Steel Phone: 704-516-1750 Email: tim@advantsteel.com Web: www.advantsteel.com Product: Advant Cold-Formed Steel Truss Description: The first and only CFS truss product designed specifically for use in shallow, parallel chord applications – specifically floors and flat roofs.

ASDIP Structural Software

Phone: 407-284-9202 Email: support@asdipsoft.com Web: www.asdipsoft.com Product: ASDIP STEEL Description: Includes easy-to-use intuitive modules for the design of steel members and connections, such as composite/non-composite beams, steel columns, base plates, anchoring to concrete, shear connections, and moment connections, per the latest design codes.

ASDIP STEEL comes with 5 intuitive modules that will substantially simplify time-consuming calculations for your structural designs.

CADRE Analytic

Phone: 425-392-4309 Email: j4@cadreanalytic.com Web: www.cadreanalytic.com Product: CADRE Pro Description: General structural application emphasizing on practical analysis of complex structures. Includes discrete, pressure, hydrostatic, seismic, and dynamic response loading schemes.

User friendly features for presenting, displaying, plotting, and tabulating extreme loads and stresses across the structure and across multiple load cases simultaneously. Basic code checking for steel, wood, and aluminum.

Cast Connex

Phone: 416-806-3521 Email: info@castconnex.com Web: www.castconnex.com Product: Standardized Cast Steel Connectors and Custom Cast Steel Connectors Description: The industry leader in the architectural and structural use of cast steel components in the design and construction of building and bridge structures. Our products include pre-engineered connectors that simplify the design and enhance the performance of structures. We also offer design-build services for custom cast steel nodes and components.

Commercial Metals Company

Phone: 949-405-9161 Email: chromx@cmc.com Web: www.cmc.com/chromx Product: ChromX® Description: High strength rebar with a range of corrosion resistance levels. Designers can select the appropriate level and strength needed, based on the project’s service life. High strength and corrosion resistant properties within the steel result in a reduction in construction costs, shortened build times, reduced congestion issues and improved safety.

Digital Canal Corp.

IES, Inc

Dlubal Software, Inc.

Lindapter International

Phone: 800-449-5033 Email: info@digitalcanal.com Web: www.digitalcanalstructural.com Product: Cold-Formed Steel Design Description: Please visit the website for New ColdFormed Steel design software information. You receive exceptional value with a one-project return on your investment. You also OWN your licenses. We do not force ongoing payments forever. Our 11,000 clients provide the best testimonial we can offer.

Phone: 267-702-2815 Email: info-us@dlubal.com Web: www.dlubal.com Product: RFEM, RWIND Simulation Description: Wind tunnel numerical simulations for wind flow on all structures. Integrate resulting wind pressures into the FEA program RFEM for further design of steel, concrete, wood, CLT, aluminum, glass, and fabric/membrane structures according to USA/ International standards. Wind loading on specialty structures, not addressed in codes provisions, possible with RWIND Simulation.

DuraFuse Frames

Phone: 801-727-4060 Email: contact@durafuseframes.com Web: www.durafuseframes.com Product: DF360 Description: Steel moment frames with one-of-a-kind resilience, exceptional performance, and improved economy. Seismic energy is dissipated without beam or column damage, minimizing post-earthquake repair cost and duration. Versatile solutions apply to all building types and hazard categories, with DuraFuse Frames engineers as seamless extensions of your team providing economical, resilient designs.

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ENERCALC

Phone: 800-424-2252 Email: info@enercalc.com Web: https://enercalc.com Product: ENERCALC Structural Engineering Library Description: Steel design is a breeze with ENERCALC. Beams, columns, 2-D frames, force distribution in bolt groups…SEL handles it all.

The simple user interface makes it easy to set up calculations. Instant recalculation to “what-if ” solutions and find the best fit. Member optimization will improve your efficiency and saves time!

Gripple Inc.

Phone: 630-406-0600 Email: e.balsamo@gripple.com Web: www.gripple.com Product: Gripple Seismic Cable Bracing Systems Description: Specifically designed and engineered to brace and secure suspended nonstructural equipment and components within a building or structure.

Suitable for bracing new or retrofit installations in a variety of configurations. Ready-to-use kits, fast to install, no tools required, four color-coded kit sizes.

Phone: 800-707-0816 Email: info@iesweb.com Web: www.iesweb.com Product: VisualAnalysis 2D Description: When you don’t need the full power (and cost) of 3-D FEA software, try VisualAnalysis 2D. It will tackle beams, columns, moment frames, plane trusses, and braced frames quickly and easily, with AISC design checks. Oh, and it also analyzes and checks 2-D wood models.

Phone: 866-566-2658 Email: inquiries@lindapter.com Web: www.lindapter.com Product: Girder Clamps Description: The only structural steel clamping system approved by ICC-ES. As an alternative to highstrength bolt assemblies, the Girder Clamp (Types AF and AAF) may be used to resist axial tension and slip due to load combinations that include wind or seismic load in all Seismic Design Categories A through F.

LNA Solutions, Inc.

Phone: 888-724-2323 Email: inquiries@lnasolutions.com Web: www.lnasolutions.com Product: BeamClamp® Description: An extensive range of clamping products designed for making steel-to-steel connections without the need for drilling or welding. The clamping system provides a guaranteed connection and a safe working load. Perfect for areas where drilling or welding are not permitted, or access and power are restricted.

MiTek

Phone: 314-851-2200 Email: answers@mii.com Web: www.mitek.com/ultra-span Product: Ultra-Span® CFS/Steel Engine™ Description: Enable your building to be stronger, longer-lasting, and more resilient for the duration of its life with the strength of MiTek’s Ultra-Span CFS and industry-leading design software, Steel Engine™.

MiTek collaborates across the building industry to enable and accelerate transformational breakthroughs in design and construction, both on-site and off-site.

New Millennium Building Systems

Phone: 260-969-3500 Email: gerald.arvay@newmill.com Web: www.newmill.com Product: Structural Steel Joists and Decking Description: New Millennium is a nationwide supplier of custom engineered and manufactured structural steel joist and deck building systems. Called upon early in the design-build process, we can assist in right system specification from our extensive portfolio of building system options. For multi-story projects, we offer the broadest range of long-span, “thin-slab” composite floor systems, including dovetail composite, deep deck composite, and composite joists.

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Solve the Top 5 Challenges Facing Building Markets Today

ince March 2020, the pandemic has changed virtually all aspects of our lives. How we live, learn, play, and do business has been disrupted – perhaps permanently. This period for the built environment industries could be called The Great Rethinking.

Building design has already changed to reflect new behaviors and beliefs, circumstances and situations, standards, and requirements.

These changes are especially evident in the education, multi-family residential, multi-story office, and warehouse and data center markets. This evolution is an opportunity and challenge.

How do architecture, engineering, construction, and building owner/developer firms approach future projects in these markets?

Innovative steel building systems from innovative-thinking suppliers are essential in this new era.

A new series of design guides identifies five major challenges in the education, multi-family, multi-story office, and warehouse and data center building markets. These guides teach you how to overcome them using steel joists, steel and composite floor systems, and steel roof deck.

Multi-Story Office Challenges

Education Challenges Innovations in educational facility design have typically been reserved for college campuses and post-secondary education.

However, primary and secondary school design faces an urgent rethinking in the current climate.

New school design priorities include open floor plans that promote safe collaboration; spacious interiors that prioritize health and safety through social distancing; sustainable building methods and materials; modern aesthetics; and controlling interior acoustics. These are the five challenges for school design teams and construction crews.

Steel buildings systems consisting of long-span steel deck systems, including roof deck and composite floor deck; standard joists; and joist girders offer the benefits to efficiently face the new school of design thought.

Multi-Family Challenges While isolating or quarantining at home, millions of people have discovered that

Businesses large and small are rethinking their workspaces to not only safeguard employee health but also to accommodate smaller workforces in the work-from-home era.

Multi-story office designs must change to protect workers’ wellbeing while facilitating safe collaboration. Constructability, work environment, aesthetics, and sustainability join flexibility as the five primary issues in modern-day office design.

Innovative steel building systems – long-span roof and floor structures, standard joists, and special profile joists – are the answer.

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living spaces aren’t adequate substitutes for offices, gyms, restaurants, and other public places. Nor are they designed for social distancing – especially multi-family and multi-story residential structures with common, shared spaces.

To address those concerns, multi-family building design must prioritize flexibility and better living environments while continuing to address longtime issues such as constructability, aesthetics, and sustainability. Together these five factors will guide multi-family design for the foreseeable future.

As this sector could continue to change, nimble steel building systems suppliers become ever more important. The steel building systems from these suppliers provide ideal solutions, among them thin-slab, long-span composite floors, and longspan roof deck.

Warehouse and Data Center Challenges Shopping and interacting online has exploded in popularity during the pandemic. Consequently, the demand for warehouses that store goods and data centers that store digital information has also skyrocketed.

Today’s warehouses and data centers must be designed and built with speed-to-market in mind, along with flexibility, optimized MEP integration, building performance, and sustainability.

To optimize storage space while meeting the five challenges, design teams should consider steel joists, composite joists, joist girders, and long-span roof and floor systems.

Get the guides today that give you the tools to overcome the challenges of education, multi-family, multi-story office, and warehouse and data center markets. https://bit.ly/3niS0MO.

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STEEL PS=Ø®

Phone: 800-355-8414 Email: sales@pourstrip0.com Web: www.pourstrip0.com Product: PS=Ø Steel Reinforcement Splice System Description: Eliminates pour strips and maintains rebar continuity while allowing for volume change.

Using proven coupler technologies recognized worldwide, the PS=Ø system features a tapered thread on one end and a grout-filled sleeve on the other. The system requires no redesign, is an ACI permitted Type 1 and Type 2 mechanical splice, is ICC approved and made in the USA.

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Product: RISAFloor Description: The latest release of RISAFloor includes the design of cold-formed steel walls according to AISI S400-15 and AISI S240-15. These improvements coupled with RISAFloor’s robust design capabilities for hot rolled steel, composite steel, steel joists, and composite steel joist make RISAFloor the #1 choice for the design of steel building structures.

Strongwell

Phone: 949-951-5815 Email: benf@risa.com Web: risa.com Product: RISAConnection Description: The cutting edge of next-generation connection design software and features full 3-D visualization as well as expandable reports for every limit state. The latest release, Version 12 includes integration with Hilti Profis for anchorage design including custom anchor bolt layouts, support for Skewed Shear Plate Connections and Flange Plate Column Cap Plate Moment Connections.

Product: RISA-3D Description: Version 19 is the next step in the evolution of the completely redesigned RISA-3D. The latest release includes updates to the AISC code as well as the ability for engineers to design cold-formed steel walls according to AISC codes. This improvement, makes RISA-3D the most comprehensive steel and cold-formed steel design tool on the market.

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Phone: 800-925-5099 Email: web@strongtie.com Web: www.strongtie.com Product: 304|316 Stainless-Steel Titen HD® HeavyDuty Screw Anchor Description: Now available in Type 304 and 316 stainless steel. Type 316 is the optimal choice for applications in corrosive environments such as near chemicals or saltwater. Type 304 is a cost-effective solution for less extreme applications, including in wet, moist, or damp environments.

Phone: 276-645-8000 Email: bmyers@strongwell.com Web: www.strongwell.com Product: EXTREN® Description: Pultruded fiberglass structural shapes and plates replace traditional metals in a wide variety of structural applications. A durable, lightweight, costsaving structural material ideal for turrets, spires, or other features on top of tall buildings. EXTREN holds L.A.R.R. approval for construction of RF transparent screenings or enclosures.

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Eliminate Pour Strips ow you can eliminate pour strips – and the extra costs, construction delays, and safety issues they bring – with the PS=Ø Steel Reinforcement Splice System.

The PS=Ø Steel Reinforcement Splice System eliminates pour strips and maintains rebar continuity while allowing for volume change.

Using proven coupler technologies recognized worldwide, the PS=Ø system features a tapered thread on one end and a grout-filled sleeve on the other. The system requires no redesign, is an ACI permitted Type 1 and Type 2 mechanical splice, is ICC approved, and made in the USA.

Reduce Costs Closing pour strips is the most expensive concrete pour on a project.

Formwork, shoring, and backshoring must stay in place for a week, and crews must reassemble for a small pour. The PS=Ø system eliminates this costly and time-consuming step.

Accelerate Construction Pour strips are a drag on any construction schedule. They not only require re-pouring the leave-out but also restrict worker access. By eliminating pour strips, the PS=Ø system can cut weeks or even months from construction schedules.

Improve Safety An open leave-out in a floor is a major safety hazard. Pour strips are particularly hazardous because they run the entire width of the slab and are impossible to avoid. The PS=Ø system replaces dangerous leave-outs with a narrow, grouted joint.

Eliminate pour strips with the PS=Ø Steel Reinforcement Splice System.

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QUICK TIE PRODUCTS, INC. Since 1999, Quick Tie Products, Inc. (“QuickTie”) has manufactured and

distributed the QuickTie System, a proprietary, fully engineered, patented hold-down system for high wind and seismic construction.

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he QuickTieTM System (https://quicktieproducts.com/ wood-quickties) is comprised of aircraft wire rope cable with threaded studs swaged to each end and a steel bearing plate and hex nut on the top end. The system cinches walls to their foundations from the uppermost top plates, resisting roof uplift and building overturning pressures as engineered to meet specified design loads.

Engineers nationwide prefer our system to other hold-down systems for several important reasons (https://quicktieproducts.com/benefits), chiefly among them:

2. Compensate for Wood Shrinkage. QuickTie cables are pre-stressed, compensating for common problems of building settling and long-term wood shrinkage (for which competing products do not account, absent expensive shrinkage compensation devices).

3. Proof-test. Because of premeditated over-tensioning (beyond a particular design load, given cable relaxation over time), if the QuickTie system is going to fail, it will fail at installation when tension is at its peak. In other words, tensioning an assembly – whether epoxied into the foundation or attached to an anchor bolt – “proof-tests” the system when installed.

4. Eliminate Defects. As an active system cinching a structure to its foundation, QuickTie cables eliminate otherwise loose load paths (think threaded rod in particular) and reduce drywall, stucco, and exterior siding cracks (think bowing flat straps).

5. Save builders time and money. The QuickTie system is installed quickly and easily after a building is framed, and is the preferred choice of framers and hardware installers

6. Be Flexible. While QuickTie originated as only a cable system, over the years, we have expanded our product offering to include just about every essential framing and hold-down component on the market. As a result, engineering professionals can choose from a number of QuickTie products in addition to cables when designing their structures.

7. Standardize Corrosion Resistance. When expanding our product offerings, we made a conscious decision to manufacture our framing connectors with a G185 zinc coating.

As a result, design professionals do not have to worry about selecting the right coating when choosing QuickTie connectors (see, for example, https://quicktieproducts.com/face-mount-joist-hangers).

And, in juxtaposition with our competitors, our customers do not have to pay extra for better protection.

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1. Verify embedment depth with 100% certainty. Each threaded stud end of a QuickTie cable has a specific embedment depth that is visually inspectable on the job site.

Threaded rod and conventional hold-down system embedment depths are not visually inspectable, introducing the element of liability should that other system fail.

throughout the country. We continue to innovate and release new products to give engineering professionals better options for designing safe structures while saving their customers time and money. For instance, check out our new SPArtanTM (Sill Plate Anchor), designed to perform on par with other ⅝-inch sill anchors, but with material cost and labor savings. https://quicktieproducts.com/spartan-still-plate-anchor

8. Consider Block Construction. The QuickTie system is equally effective in masonry structures. Masonry walls with QuickTie cables are – counterintuitively – stiffer than conventional systems and eliminate many time-consuming aspects of conventional construction (think vertical downpours, rebar, lintels, and corresponding inspections) https://quicktieproducts.com/masonry-quickties.

Our team of engineers and design professionals is available to answer any questions you may have and assist you in implementing product substitutions. Please see our website for additional information (e.g., our catalog, Technical Evaluation Reports or “TERs,” Florida Product Approval information, design details, etc.), and thank you for your interest and support!

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