For steel-construction SMEs
Answer more tenders, without growing the team.
The time per quote drops to a few minutes, EC3 pre-sizing is automatic, and the quote goes out complete, in your brand.
01 / Today
Pricing a tender takes 2 to 8 hours.
The tender brief in one corner of the screen, Excel in the other, the layout work at the end. Every tool asks again for what the last one already knew.
- The tender briefRead it, interpret it, take off the dimensions
- ExcelPre-size from your abacuses, price each item
- WordRe-key from Excel, lay it out, send it
- A tracking spreadsheet, or the inboxChase, record who replied, remember
2 to 8 hours per quote. And two full re-keyings.
Your calculation software earns its keep after the signature. Nobody runs a full calculation for a tender they have a one-in-five chance of winning. So the offer is built from abacuses and experience, and the software stays closed.
02 / Time
The time per quote drops from hours to minutes.
Let's follow a 20.1 × 40 m warehouse in Orléans, France. Each step feeds the next: what you enter once is never re-entered.
- ModellingWhat goes in : The brief: 20.1 × 40 m, 2 bays, 6 m to the eaves, Orléans, FranceWhat comes out : Snow zone A2, wind zone 2, EC1 loads applied, and a 3D model ready for calculation
- EC3What goes in : The model and its loadsWhat comes out : The sections selected, the optimised grade and the utilisation ratios, per EC0, EC1 and EC3
- CostingWhat goes in : The take-off by family and your pricesWhat comes out : The priced quote, margins managed line by line, BT07 and BT08 indexing
- Export and trackingWhat goes in : The validated quoteWhat comes out : PDF and Excel under your brand, the IFC model, and the tender tracked through to the reply
One tool. No re-keying.
03 / Engineering
Pre-sizing is automatic.
You give the geometry and the site. Structade applies EC0, EC1 and EC3, settles the sections, optimises the grade, returns the utilisation ratios and the weight of the structure. The step that used to take your engineering time no longer asks for it.
What you giveThe building geometry and its address.
What the code requiresThe site's snow and wind loads, via the national annexes.
What Structade returnsThe sections selected, the optimised grade, the utilisation ratios and the weight of each member.
Elements
- Full frame
- Portal frames
- Gable framing
- Purlins and roof
- Bracing
| Element | Section | Grade | Qty | Length (m) | kg/m | kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Column | IPE 550 | S275JR | 10 | 7.00 | 106.0 | 8,029 |
| Rafter | IPE 500 | S275JR | 10 | 7.75 | 90.7 | 7,606 |
| Haunch | PRS 1000*8/300*20 | S355JR | 10 | 0.78 | 157.0 | 1,317 |
| Gable post | IPE 220 | S275JR | 8 | 8.00 | 26.2 | 1,814 |
| Purlin stay | UPE 180 | S275JR | 4 | 7.75 | 20.2 | 678 |
| Bracing | L 50*5 | S235JR | 4 | 12.00 | 3.8 | 196 |
04 / Quality
Volume does not cost you quality.
Answering faster does not mean answering worse. The quote comes out complete and detailed, in your brand, with no layout work to redo.
Three documents ship together, ready to send:
- The PDF quote: detailed take-off, sale prices, your logo.
- The Excel export: take-off by family, ready to send.
- The IFC model: the structural model, exportable as openBIM.
The IFC model comes out with the quote, at no extra work. Today it is rarely produced at bid stage, even though anything beyond a plain shed, or an architect on the other side, expects one.
Who is building Structade
A tool built from the field.
Structade is developed in France, alongside steel fabricators and design offices that price tenders every week. The starting observation is simple: at bid stage, pre-dimensioning has no tool at all. That is the step Structade equips first.
Antoine LaffaireFounder
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