We appreciate our students! Thank you to all who shared the word and invited their friends to join our community.

Our winner for the month of September was Liu Xi a student from Aalto University. Liu will recieve a free Trimble multi-use backpack, a "Master" invite badge to showcase in his profile and gain exposure as our October Student Spotlight appearing later this month. Liu has...

BIM is not just for design of structures, but it also is very much driving the innovation in the field of construction. The I in BIM is a very important letter as it stands for Information. This information can then be used downstream throughout the project’s lifecycle for planning, designing, analysis, fabrication, construction and ownership. Fred Mills from The B1M shares the importance of...

Congratulations to our 2016 Tekla Global BIM Awards Student competition. A group of 4 students from Lodz University of Technology in Poland, training for their BSc degree. The project team consisted of a collaboration from multiple faculties within the university. The project team included: Civil engineering (Karolina Malańska, Krystian Warda), Architecture (Robert Szuba) and Environmental...

We raised this question to our campus users last month and the results are in. 24% use Tekla Structural Designer, 19% mentioned Sap2000, 14% worked with ETABS or Robot Structural Analysis, 12% mentioned STAAD.Pro and then 1-2% fell on a mixture of others.

For most engineers, working with a number of different analysis and design tools for a single project is standard. An engineer may...