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The PCSC is a limited liability non-profit company registered in Colorado. Member companies each have equal shares and voting rights. Some precast engineering consultants and software providers are Associate Members. more... |
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April to August 2003 - Tekla provides Tekla Structures licenses to all PCSC member companies - Tekla and the PCSC conclude the Final Software Specification; Tekla provides the first upgrade with generic modeling enhancements. August 31, 2003 – Last date for p recast companies to join the PCSC and benefit from the significant commercial advantages negotiated by the PCSC. October 16, 2003 – Last date for PCSC members to pre-purchase specially priced seats at the group volume discount price. October 2003 to September 2004 – Tekla releases four quarterly major upgrades of the software as development progresses. June - July 2005 - Ghang Lee (GT) and the User Group Task Force Team distributes a User Group Survey to all PCSC members asking for their opinions on the make up of a Tekla User Group. The results are tabulated and distributed shortly thereafter. A conference call is held, a steering committee is formed and nominations are taken for Chairman. Nominees include: Mike Hutchinson(IPC), Dave Mahaffy(Strescon) and Skip Wolodkewitsch(Shockey). Dave Mahaffy is elected to the position and the Tekla Precast User Group (TPUG) is born.
August 2005 - A series of Conference Calls are held to address a number of issues raised in the User Group Survey - including the acceptance of LEAP to charter the TPUG steering committee; the shape and content of the new TPUG website; the creation of an area for User Group Discussion Forums on that website and planning the Annual TPUG Meeting, etc. Remaining issues will be discussed at the upcoming annual meeting.
December 2005 - The 1st Annual TPUG Meeting is scheduled to take place in Clearwater Beach, FL and will be hosted by LEAP Software. Tekla Inc. is best known in the USA and Canada as the provider of the Xsteel structural steel building modeling software package. It is a fully 3D parametric building modeling package tailored for the structural steel industry. Tekla is a public company (traded on the Helsinki stock exchange) that employs over 450 people worldwide. Its primary office in North America is located in Atlanta, GA.
Georgia Tech, specifically the College of Architecture, is well known in the field of CAD development and has significant experience with 3D modeling. Prof Eastman, in particular, has been directly involved with a previous and parallel effort in the steel industry including data modeling and IFC standards development. Their expertise has been invaluable, especially when carefully evaluating the critical area of system capacity and performance. The Georgia Tech team is led by Chuck Eastman. Chuck was one of the developers of solid modeling in the 1970s and an early developer of building models (3d modeling, database backend and parametric modeling) in the 1980s. He has over fifty papers in CAD and engineering databases and has been honored in numerous publications; most recently in the article by Jerry Laiserin, "CAD pioneer reflects on the past and the future", Architectural Record, 01-2001. |
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Hans Klohn (506) 632-2600 Chuck Eastman (404) 894-3477 |
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The 1st Precast Concrete Software Consortium Meeting Atlanta, GA June 13, 2001
The Precast Concrete Software Consortium kickoff meeting was held from June 7 to 8 in the College of Architecture, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA. This workshop reviewed process modeling practices and recommendations. It included a tutorial on the use of the Precast Concrete Process Model Tool developed by Georgia Tech. |
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Tekla's Tekla Structures is unique in its ability
to model a precast concrete building as a whole, and not simply as a
collection of different - and potentially non-matching - individual parts. |
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