STEEL
Empowering steel fabricators and offshore with BIM
Successful steel structure projects start with a high-quality Building Information Model. With Tekla Structures, you can detail, fabricate, and erect steel structures faster and with greater precision. Accurate, constructible models reduce costly surprises and rework, optimizing the entire process for more profitable and efficient projects.
Why choose Construsoft
End-to-end optimization
Streamline every stage, from concept to fabrication and commissioning, with powerful BIM solutions.
Precision and efficiency
Minimize errors, reduce rework, and boost profitability with detailed models.
Future-proof solutions
Stay ahead with innovative tools that adapt to your evolving industry needs.
Dedicated support
Benefit from hands-on training and ongoing guidance from our experience steel experts.
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If we do not go in the digital direction, then we risk losing future projects by not being competitive enough. Fabrication-ready 3D models is a very efficient way of working”
- Charles Halaas, Aibel
IT Manager Field Development and Offshore Wind
Tekla Structures: Optimizing steel and offshore projects
Detailed, constructible models minimize costly surprises and rework, ensuring efficient and profitable projects.
Tekla Structures enables total process optimization for fabricators and offshore builders. From concept studies and 4D visualization to designing structures, safety systems, and sustainability, Tekla supports seamless management across the entire project lifecycle.
Scanning for steel
How can scanning help steel fabricators?
See the Trimble X9 Laser Scanner
Steel fabricators in the Nordic were early adopters of BIM and have developed great workflows for design and fabrication over the years. Many are now looking into scanning and want to find efficient ways to consider the real world and the BIM model together for quality assurance and project planning and other benefits!
In this article we will look into some use cases for scanning focused on the steel fabricator segment!
Structural analysis for Steel
Whether it is global analysis or local analys of connections or other details, we have you covered with our world-leading solutions
Connection design with IDEA StatiCa
IDEA StatiCa is engineering software for structural design and code-checking of steel connections, concrete details, cross sections, beams, and other critical structural components.
It helps engineers verify complex details according to relevant design codes, with a workflow that connects detailed analysis to everyday structural design tasks.
Global analysis with CSi
CSI software is widely used for structural analysis and design of buildings, bridges, and other infrastructure.
SAP2000 provides a flexible analysis environment for a broad range of structural systems, from simple frames to complex civil engineering projects.
ETABS is developed specifically for building analysis and design, with efficient workflows for multi-storey structures, lateral systems, load combinations, and code-based design.
Full FEA with Ansys
Ansys Mechanical is an integrated finite element analysis platform for detailed structural analysis, including linear and nonlinear behaviour, contact, dynamics, and thermal-structural effects.
It is suited for engineers who need deeper insight into stresses, deformations, and performance beyond standard structural design checks.
Ansys is available through our sister company in the Myrien Group, EDRMedeso.
Transforming the Construction of North Sea Oil Platforms
Norwegian offshore constructor Aibel has put Tekla software at the heart of its work designing and manufacturing oil platforms. Aibel’s ongoing project for the massive Johan Sverdrup field is a story that moves from the tropical shipyards of Thailand to the stormy waters of the North Sea - paving the way for Aibel’s future projects beyond oil & gas…
Slagelse Pedestrian Bridge
Slagelse Pedestrian Bridge is 60-meter complex steel bridge located over Slagelse Station for the municipality of Slagelse in Denmark. Its complex geometry was solved with help of Tekla Live Link for Grasshopper. This allowed Rambøll in the early design phases to work on the project while still being able to reposition the main geometry. This project was the Local Winner (DK, NO) of the 2021 BIM Awards in the category: Best Infrastructure Project
Use the model across the steel fabrication process
— connecting estimating, purchasing, production, and project management
Many companies face similar workflow challenges. In the video above, we explain how these issues often begin when information from the model is separated from the rest of the process and managed through drawings, spreadsheets, paper records, and disconnected updates — and how Tekla PowerFab can help connect those workflows.
