Fastrak Building Designer provides the most comprehensive, easy to use range of solutions available for structural steel building design.

Since 1987 Fastrak has been used by thousands of engineers throughout the industry. The software is continually enhanced in line with technological and design based advances.

Using Fastrak Building Designer, the complete physical design model can be created, incorporating timber and concrete members, as well as steel.

The intuitive interface and full model validation allow you to accommodate changes as they occur with the minimum of effort.

Building Designer is a modular suite comprising of individual elemental design tools for the design of single beams and columns, to the complete 3D building design.

* Simple 2D or 3D input of floors and frames for rapid model generation.
* Create any arrangement of grid lines to help you input the structure quickly and simply.
* Import DXF drawing to automatically create grid lines.
* Import architects' plans in DXF. The architectural drawing can be 'traced over' to generate the Fastrak model.
* Create and work with beams, columns and slabs, handled as design objects not analytical elements.
* Models can be imported from Revit Structure, or in industry standard formats such as SDNF (steelwork detailing neutral file), or 3DN (3D+TM).
* No practical limit to the geometry of the model.
* Inclined beams, floors, complex roof structures, trusses etc - all are modelled in Fastrak.
* Floors can be tied by bracing or diaphragm action.
* Frames can be rigid or braced with X, A, >, /, K etc.
* Members can be any material including concrete and timber.
* Concrete shear walls and cores can be modelled (for sway assessment).
* Support for curved members including Westok beams.
* Automatic generation of roof members, secondary steel and panels, including the automatic generation of restraint positions.

# Simple input for floor loads, area loads, line loads and point loads.
# Automatic calculation of self weight of composite slabs, including allowance for ponding if required.
# Partial variable area loads for the application of snow drift loads to roofs.
# Automatic building perimeter load facility.
# Automatic directional wind loading distribution.
# Automatic calculation of notional horizontal forces as per BS 5950-1:2000 and AISC 360.
# Automatic reduction of imposed loads.
# Automatic creation of load combinations appropriate to the relevant design code.
# Automatic calculation of seismic loads.
# Automatic validation of load applied versus the total reactions for each load type and load case.
# Optional load decomposition on to cold rolled elements

Automatic Building and Element Design

* Automatic design of complete buildings or individual elements.
* Automatic sway assessment of the entire structure by inspection of every floor-to-floor drift of every column under the relevant notional horizontal load case.
* Comprehensive implementation of the assessment of floor vibration to SCI P354 and DG11.
* Value engineering is provided by the ability to rapidly consider a huge range of design options.
* Sections can be hot rolled steel, plated sections, Westok beams, Fabsec beams, Porthole beams, ASB's, Slimflor beams or Steel joists.
* Composite design can be provided with a range of steel decking or with pre-cast concrete planks, and a range of automatic stud placement options are available.
* Concrete reinforcement may be by individual bars, mesh, or fibre reinforcement.
* Beams can be designed for web openings, with or without local stiffening.
* Simple, rigid (moment) and concrete filled columns can be designed.
* Columns can be spliced as required - including simple design.
* Column base plate design including moment forces.
* Floors can be tied by floor bracing or defined as diaphragms.
* Building/Frame stability can be provided by various forms of bracing including X, A, <, /, K etc., moment (rigid) frames, concrete shear walls, or a mixture of all three.
* Elastic, amplified second order and 'true' second order analysis can be performed as required.
* Automatic design of connections, including assessment of ability of the structure to disproportionate collapse.

* Detailed design output or design summaries, in Microsoft WordTM or PDF format if required.
* Beam end reactions and base reactions in Microsoft Word format, ExcelTM spreadsheet format or on DXF drawings.
* Option for max, min output for base loads, beam end reactions etc.
* Detailed design drawings of plans and elevations, reactions, floor slab reinforcement requirements, automatically layered on DXF output drawings.
* Full material take off lists including steel and concrete in Microsoft Excel if required.
* Creation of 3d model for integration with Revit Structure or 3D+.
* 3D model output in DXF, SDNF (steel detailing neutral file), CIS/2.0 (US only) , S-Frame, Staad and Sap format.
* DXF output for connection detailin