MicroStation’s advanced parametric 3D modeling capabilities allow infrastructure professionals of any discipline to deliver data-driven, BIM-ready models.  Your team can aggregate their work on MicroStation, including designs and models created with Bentley’s discipline specific BIM applications. As a result, you can create comprehensive, multi-discipline BIM models, documentation, and other deliverables. Since your project team will work in a universal modeling application, they can communicate easily to share intelligent deliverables and maintain the full integrity of your data.

MicroStation and all Bentley BIM applications are built on the same comprehensive modeling platform. You therefore can easily progress your MicroStation work into discipline specific workflows with Bentley’s design and analytical modeling BIM applications. With this flexibility, each member of your project team has exactly the right application for the work they need to do.

Multi-Discipline Rail Station Design and Pedestrian Simulation

OpenBuildings Station Designer improves design quality by optimizing the functional space layout of the station building and the path of travel for the pedestrian. Design, analyze, visualize, and simulate rail and metro stations of any size, form, and complexity. Create pedestrian simulation scenarios to improve the quality of your station design and facility operations. OpenBuildings Station Designer provides building information modeling (BIM) advancements so you can deliver station design projects faster and with greater confidence in your design, workflow, capabilities, and deliverables.  Effectively communicate design intent and eliminate barriers between building disciplines and geographically distributed teams. Multi-discipline: Increase collaboration among architects, mechanical, electrical, and structural engineers with a shared set of tools and workflows Interoperability: Integrate information you have from multiple formats and easily work on projects of any size Information-rich deliverables: Clearly communicate your design intent with reliable deliverables that you can easily customize Unrestrictive design environment: Model anything with total freedom from stations with simple to highly complex geometry and designs Building performance: Simulate station buildings and predict real-world performance of the asset quickly and with precision to explore various options for iterative refinement

Capabilities

• Analyze building system performance

Simulate real-world performance and evaluate building system performances so you can quickly discover the best design choices. Inform early design decisions with conceptual energy analysis that provides peak loads, annual energy calculations, energy consumptions, carbon emissions, and fuel costs.

• Collaborate across multi-discipline teams

Collaborate across multiple disciplines with tools for architectural, electrical, mechanical, and structural systems design in one application. Coordinate your designs better thanks to a common design environment and a streamlined workflow. Resolve clashes with built-in clash detection and share mark-ups of models and documentation across teams to reduce project errors.

• Design mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems

Design complex MEP systems. Model fully parametric air-handling, piping, and plumbing systems. Design lighting, power, fire-detection, and other electrical subsystems.

• Design station building structures

Model steel, concrete, and timber structures from walls, foundations, and columns to other structural components. Produce plans, framing layouts, sections, and elevations. Integrate with detailing applications, including Bentley's ProStructures.

• Design stations and facilities

Develop and design buildings and facilities of any size and complexity with comprehensive architectural capabilities. Produce coordinated architectural documentation directly from the building model. Create floor plans, sections, elevations, and schedules for any architectural component.

Easily produce high quality and economical designs for all your structural projects using various concrete, steel, and joist building materials. Design, analyze, and create documentation with ease for your building projects, saving time and money. Maximize your software investment with one fully integrated application suite offering complete building analysis, design, and drafting for both steel and concrete structures. Increase your productivity by eliminating tedious and time consuming tasks with RAM’s practical applications. Design anything from individual components to large-scale buildings and foundations. Brand RAM includes such products:

• Structural WorkSuite. Use what you want, when you want it, with our most comprehensive suite of trusted structural analysis and design applications like STAAD and RAM.
• RAM Structural System. Tackle projects with confidence and quickly produce high quality and economical designs, using various concrete, steel, and joist building materials.
• RAM Connection. Analyze and design of any connection type and verify your connections in seconds, all with comprehensive calculations, including seismic compliance.
• RAM Elements. Perform analysis and design – including 3D finite element analysis – of almost any type of structure or structural component, in one affordable application.
• RAM Concept. Economically design concrete slabs, mats, and rafts with exceptional visibility into compliance, efficiency, and practicality.
• RAM SBeam Virtuoso Subscription. A specialized desktop application for the design of steel beams and joists.

Concrete Slab Design Software

Economically design post-tensioned and reinforced concrete floors including slabs, mats, and rafts, with exceptional visibility into compliance, efficiency, and practicality. Design floors and foundations reliably and efficiently, saving time and money, and overcoming the most common concerns you face as a designer. RAM Concept allows you to easily design complex floor geometries and incorporate changes with ease using powerful task automation and clearly organized output.

Capabilities

• Design post-tensioned and conventional concrete floors. Design elevated concrete slabs with or without post-tensioning. Consider all major aspects of slab design, including service, ductility, and strength limit states, punching shear requirements, long-term deflections, and walking vibration.
• Design raft or mat foundations to international standards. Design raft or mat foundations using soil springs and a zero-tension analysis. Confidently complete your designs with the extensive support of international standards.
• Analyze gravity, lateral, and temperature loads. Design and analyze simple or complex concrete floors for a wide range of loading conditions, including skip live loads, wind/seismic loads, and temperature loads.
• Optimize post-tensioned concrete floor designs. Optimize the design of post-tensioning, reinforcement, and studded shear reinforcement for post-tensioned concrete floors using a cloud-based optimization feature. Save hours of engineering time by eliminating the need for tedious manual iteration. Let the optimizer sort through thousands of design alternatives and have confidence that your post-tensioned design has reduced material and labor costs.
• Integrate with RAM Structural System.Transfer floor or raft/mat foundation geometry and loading, including lateral load effects, from RAM Structural System. Export reactions, including post-tensioning effects, to RAM Structural System for column design.
• Analyze deflections for time-dependent effects. Capture the time-varying properties of concrete in your analysis. Account for creep, shrinkage, and cracking at various time stages in the analysis, accurately predicting deflections with consideration for how concrete truly behaves.
• Analyze floors for walking vibration. Study dynamic behavior, including resonant and impulsive effects, of simple and complex concrete floors due to walking vibration. Evaluate sensitivity criteria for occupants or sensitive equipment.