Short Communication
Year: 2019 | Month: October-December | Volume: 3 | Issue: 4 | Pages: 10-13
Integrating Various Softwares for Planning Analysis and Design
Mohammad Saifuddin1, Syed Farrukh Anwar2
1Structural Engineering Department. Nawab Shah Alam Khan College of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
2Associate Professor. Department of Civil Engineering. Nawab Shah Alam Khan College of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Corresponding Author: Mohammad Saifuddin
ABSTRACT
Every stage in construction, starting right from planning till turning the key to the project requires a lot of drafting and note making. If done the conventional way, it will take a lot of time and will be very tedious to understand even. A simple calculation of the paint area will take a very long time and effort. Volume calculation will also be the same. To prevent wastage of time and to make the workflow more optimized, a list of software can be used which can keep a log on all the progress and give the required results in a less time. This paper shows how 3 different softwares can be used to plan, analyze and design a group of houses. The quantity take-offs of the structural members and other entities can be done just with a few clicks. The softwares used are SketchUp, Staad Pro and Microsoft Excel. The result was a very fast procurement of the required values.
Keywords: Civil design, Optimization, STAAD Pro, Microsoft Excel, SketchUp, Planning, Design.
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