A showcase of products and services for building professionals

Complimenting the top-notch educational sessions scheduled for the 2006 Structural Engineers Building Conference & Expo, held Nov. 29-30 in Washington D.C., attendees had the opportunity to meet with many of the industry’s most valuable product and service vendors.

Additionally, conference attendees were exposed to some of the newest products and services on the market from a wide variety of exhibitors.

For example, ARCOM, the company that publishes specification system MASTERSPEC, was on site to showcase its new book/CD, Specifying LEED Requirements, which is a handy, all-in-one reference source for specifying LEED requirements.

RAM/STAAD/Bentley Systems—this year’s platinum sponsor—highlighted RAM Advanse Version 8.0. It is the latest version of the product that features a number of innovative engineering desktop programs, including retaining wall design, skip loading for continuous beams, tilt-up wall design improvements, masonry wall design, and shear wall design improvements.

Representatives from the Council of American Structural Engineers were present to promote its new "Guidelines for Site Visits," which is a teaching tool for young engineers.

RISA Technologies demonstrated its newest product, RISAFoundation. This application is a complete foundation solution and can design any combination of multiple mats, grade beams, and spread footings. This program is fully integrated with RISA-3D and RISAFloor so you can move seamlessly back and forth with no loss of information.

StrucSoft Solutions, a Canadian-based software developer, unveiled its new product called Pro-Concrete. This is a 3-D concrete application for engineers and contractors.

Tekla introduced a new process, showcasing the model-based shop drawing review process, which is a method for the review of shop drawings that streamlines this tedious task, saving time and improving the quality of communication between the engineer and detailer.

Alpine Site Services Inc.
5990 Kipling Parkway, Suite 001
Arvada, CO 80004
303-420-0048

www.alpinesites.com
info@alpinesites.com

Products: Engineered screwpiles
Description: Alpine Site Services, Inc., offers engineered screwpiles, a proven alternative to conventional deep foundations. Engineered screwpiles are currently being used worldwide to support loads up to 500 kips per pile. Alpine’s screwpiles typically install four times faster than other deep foundation systems, regardless of groundwater conditions. Weather conditions have very little impact on the installation rate or procedure. Alpine’s unique load-test assembly allows for onsite load tests, coupled with its patent-pending, torque data-logging system, ensures that production piles meet project specifications. With its "owned" transportation fleet, Alpine is able to offer services for your project anywhere. Working closely with both the general contractor and the project consultants, its structural and geotechnical consultants make the change from conventional, deep-foundation design to screwpile a nearly effortless substitution through shop drawings.

ARCOM
332 East 500 South
Salt Lake City, Utah 84111-3309
800-424-5080 or 801-521-9162

www.masterspec.com
arcom@arcomnet.com

Products: MASTERSPEC Specification Systems, SPECWARE Software Suite, MASTERSPEC Structural Library, MASTERSPEC Structural/Civil/Landscape Library, MASTERSPEC Small Project Library, Specifying LEED Requirements Reference Book/CD, MASTERWORKS, LINX, e-SPECS Linx, e-SPECS for AutoCAD, e-SPECS for Revit
Description: ARCOM publishes MASTERSPEC for the AIA and develops the SPECWARE suite of specification software. MASTERSPEC, the preeminent specification system since 1969, includes the following features:
• Master specification text in both MasterFormat ‘04 and ‘95 follows CSI’s three-part format. Includes edit-by-deletion specifications with extensive instructions
• Comprehensive background information on each topic, including manufacturers, standards, references, LEED/sustainability, and seismic issues
• SPECWARE suite of specification software
• Access to ARCOM’s specification writers
• Free technical support
• Thousands of internet links
MASTERSPEC is available in 13 practice-specific libraries, including the following:
• Structural Library
• Site Civil Library
• Structural/Civil/Landscape Library
• Architectural/Structural/Civil Library
MASTERSPEC is peer reviewed and exclusively endorsed or recommended by ACEC, CASE, NSPE, AIA, and CSI.
New Product: MASTERSPEC in both MasterFormat ‘04 and ‘95
Description: CSI’s MasterFormat has drastically changed the construction industry’s specification numbering scheme (MasterFormat). MASTERSPEC is now available in both MasterFormat ‘04 and ‘95 to ease the transition for engineers, architects, and other design professionals.
New Product: Specifying LEED Requirements Book/CD
Description: A handy, all-in-one reference source for specifying LEED requirements.

RAM/STAAD/Bentley Systems
685 Stockton Drive
Exton, PA 19341
610-458-5000

www.bentley.com/structural
structural@bentley.com

Products: RAM Advanse, RAM Connection, RAM Structural System, RAM Concept, RAM CADstudio, STAAD.Pro, Bentley Structural
Description: Bentley Systems provides totally integrated productivity solutions for building, plant, and civil for the structural design office. For building analysis, design, and Bentley offers RAM Structural System and RAM CADstudio. In addition, RAM Connection offers fully integrated steel connection design—now with Gusset Plate design. For specialized design of RC and PT slabs and mats, it offers RAM Concept, which now integrates with RAM Structural System and STAAD.Pro for an integrated concrete solution. RAM Advanse is a desktop tool for everyday design tasks and now includes five desktop programs: concrete and masonry retaining wall design; continuous beam design for steel, concrete, and wood; tilt-up wall design; masonry wall design; and concrete and masonry shear wall design. STAAD.Pro is a general-purpose program that can be used for virtually any structure, including plant and civil applications. It includes advanced features such as pushover analysis and includes 60 different design codes. Bentley Structural is a Building Information Modeling (BIM) application that allows engineers to create structural systems for buildings and industrial plants in steel, concrete, and timber.
New Product: RAM Advanse Version 8.0
Description: The new version of RAM Advanse now features a number of innovative engineering desktop programs. These programs include the following:
• Concrete and masonry retaining wall design
• Continuous beam design for steel, concrete, and wood with automated skip loading
• Tilt-up wall design with and without openings, simplified and finite element analysis
• Masonry wall design, including pilasters and lintels
• Concrete and masonry shear wall design with and without openings
All five of these tools perform fully integrated with the general-purpose program or as stand-alone programs—making RAM Advanse the first program of its kind to offer this dual functionality. 

Carolina Stalite Company
P.O. Box 1037
Salisburg, NC 28138
704-637-1515 or 800-898-3772

www.stalite.com
kharmon@stalite.com

Products: Lightweight aggregate
Description: Rotary-kiln-expanded slate lightweight aggregate is used for high-performance lightweight concrete.

Council of American Structural Engineers (CASE)
1015 15th Street, NW, 8th Floor
Washington, DC 20005-2605
202-347-7474

www.acec.org/case
acec@acec.org

Products: Business practice and risk management publications and tools
Description: Useful tools and publications to aid structural engineers in their everyday practices.
New Product: Guidelines for Site Visits
Description: This publication is a teaching tool for young engineers.

Hardy Frames, Inc.
789 S. Victoria Ave., Suite 200
Ventura, CA 93003
805-477-0793

www.hardyframe.com

Products: Hardy Frames Brace Frames and Panels
Description: The Hardy Frame is a light-gage steel shear wall system that is designed to support gravity loads and to resist lateral loads resulting from wind or earthquake. The Hardy Frame System is recognized by ICC to comply with the three major building codes: the UCB, the IBC, and the IRC. The Hardy Frame Shearwall System eliminates problems associated with standard plywood shear walls and provides a prefabricated system that has been built under rigorous quality-control standards.

Hayward Baker Inc.
1875 Mayfield Rd.
Odenton, MD 21113
410-551-1980

www.haywardbaker.com
gesimmons@haywardbaker.com

Products: Micropiles, aggregate piers, jet grouting, compaction grouting, soil mixing, and vibro systems
Description: As a North American leader in specialty geotechnical construction, Hayward Baker provides decades of technical and mechanical experience to provide the best available ground improvement solutions to address structural or seismic soil issues.

iLevel Trus Joist Commercial
6460 Busch Blvd., Suite 200
Columbus, OH 43229
800-456-4787

www.trusjoist.com 

Products: Commercial open-web trusses (wood chord with metal web), Commercial TJI joist, Parallam PSL beams, TimberStrand LSL beams, Microllam LVL beams
Description: Commercial/light commercial structural building solutions 

International Code Council
900 Montclair Road
Birmingham, AL 35023
888-422-7233
205-599-9889

www.iccsafe.org

Products and Services: International codes, standards, construction publications, membership, educational services
Description: The International Code Council, a membership association dedicated to building safety and fire prevention, develops the codes used to construct residential and commercial buildings, including homes and schools. Most American cities, counties, and states that adopt codes choose the International Codes developed by the International Code Council.

RISA Technologies
26632 Towne Centre Drive, Suite 210
Foothill Ranch, CA 92610
949-951-5815

www.risatech.com
info@risatech.com

Products: RISA-3D, RISAFloor, RISA-2D, RISAFoundation, RISATower, RISAMasonry, RISAFoot, RISABase, RISASection
Description: RISA Technologies believes structural engineering software should be powerful, accurate, and user-friendly. The company’s analysis and design software is used by 24 of the Top 25 ENR Design Firms in the United States, and in more than 70 countries worldwide. RISA-3D and RISAFloor enable you to work with steel, concrete, timber, and cold-formed steel all in a single, seamlessly integrated model. RISA-3D, RISAFloor, RISAFoundation, RISAFoot, and RISASection are integrated to provide a complete structural design solution.
New Product: RISAFoundation
Description: RISAFoundation is a complete foundation solution and can design any combination of multiple mats, grade beams, and spread footings. This program is fully integrated with RISA-3D and RISAFloor so you can move seamlessly back and forth with no loss of information.

Simpson Strong-Tie
5956 W. Las Positas Blvd.
Pleasanton, CA 94588
800-925-5099

www.strongtie.com

Products: Hurricane ties, straps, Steel Strong-Wall, Anchor Systems, Strong-Drive Screws, holdowns
Description: Products such as joist hangers, hurricane ties, straps, and holdowns, are used on jobsites everyday. Simpson also has several featured product lines, including shearwalls (Strong-Wall and Steel Strong-Wall), Anchor Systems, Anchor Tiedown Systems (ATS), and Quik Drive screw-driving systems.

StrucSoft Solutions
5375 Pare Street, Suite 201
Montreal, Province of Quebec
Canada H4P 1P7
514-341-9646 ext. 221

www.strucsoftsolutions.com
info@strucsoftsolutions.com

Product and Services: Pro-Steel 3D as well as product customization, training, implementation, and support
Description: Structural steel applications for engineering and detailing
New Product: Pro-Concrete
Description: 3-D concrete application for engineers and contractors

Structural Group
7455 New Ridge Road, Suite T
Hanover, MD 21076
410-850-7000

www.structural.net
info@structural.net

Products and Services: Structural design services; specialty contracting for repair, protection, and reinforcement; post-tensioning and specialty reinforcement systems
Description: Structural Group delivers services, products, systems, and technologies that build, repair, protect, strengthen, and reinforce concrete, steel, masonry, wood, and soil. Structural Preservation Systems is a national specialty contractor focusing on structural repair, maintenance, waterproofing, geotechnical, construction, and strengthening services. VSL designs, manufactures, and installs post-tensioning and specialty reinforcement systems.

Tamlyn
13623 Pike Rd.
Stafford, TX 77477
281-499-9604

www.tamlyn.com
info@tamlyn.com

Products: structural connectors

Tekla, Inc.
114 Town Park Drive, Suite 500
Kennesaw, GA 30144
770-426-5105

www.tekla.com
info.us@tekla.com

Products: Tekla Structures
Description: Tekla Structures is the first Building Information Modeling (BIM) software to fully integrate the entire structural design process from conceptual design to detailing and onto construction. Tekla Structures is available in different configurations to suit the needs of the engineer, detailer, project manager, contractor, etc., and links to most widely used analysis programs. Using industry-standard data exchange formats, such as IFC, users of Tekla Structures coordinate their structural models with those from other design disciplines, including architectural and MEP.
New Product: Model-based Shop Drawing Review
Description: Introducing a new process for the review of shop drawings that streamlines this tedious task, saving time and improving the quality of communication between the engineer and detailer.