VIRTUAL CONCRETE BUILDINGS ™/®

The 3D Virtual technologies represent a major contribution to solving the Interoperability problems for the construction industry.

These 3D Virtual technologies are called ``level III`` and they are seamlessly integrated fully and totally with the SAFI Engineering applications and products.

The SAFI 3D Virtual technologies are seamless, truly integrated for the cycles of Analysis, Design, Detailing and Fabrication. Any parameter or variable is defined once through the 3D Virtual simulation and shared by all applications and participants.

The SAFI 3D Virtual model, is an innovative approach that reduces the potential of errors inherent with the incompatible and often needless data exchange of information, it increases the productivity of the end users, improve the communication between the various users working on a given project from the Conceptual Design to Fabrication, Construction and Erection of the structures in fields.

End User’s:

· Engineers

· Detailers

· Fabricators

· Architects

· Construction industry for all sectors

· Universities & technical schools

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LEVEL I Concrete Technologies:

Concrete Calculators for Verifications & Evaluation of Concrete Structures

LEVEL II Concrete Technologies:

Engineering Concrete Design, Verification & Evaluation

LEVEL III Concrete Technologies:

In a typical Concrete construction project, work is assigned to various groups of specialists and each one carries a specific project task. Among these groups are architects, engineers, draftsmen, managers, construction companies, fabricators, erectors and administrators. In each corresponding field, information technologies (IT) has progressed and several valid solutions are available on the market place. However each application has its own proprietary format and databases for input and output. This has created a major problem for the construction industry with respect to the retrieval of useful information from heterogeneous data sources. The productivity of the concrete construction industry is affected with the result that expected construction savings are not fully achieved.

Data exchange protocols are a good step forward; however further efforts in Software integration with the help of SAFI VCB Concrete Virtual Buildings technologies™/® has contributed in solving the existing problems. A virtual Concrete model with configurable views for various participants and end users has been developed. The virtual model is aimed at the designers for the design and evaluation of structures, estimators, draftsmen, construction companies, fabricators and erectors, as well as various other construction trades.