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Tilt-Up Design Collaboration with Tilt-Werks® Online Application
Tilt-Up Design Systems, LLC (TDS) has created an innovative, collaborative on-line application that allows the Tilt-Up Industry to design and manage tilt-up projects, access resources, find information on technology, codes and regulations and communicate with architects, designers, structural engineers, contractors and suppliers through a web based subscription service. This collaborative technology is called Tilt-Werks®.
Tilt-Werks® by TDS is a sophisticated tilt-up Building Information Modeling (BIM) application used to develop a complete tilt-up project design and construction package. Building geometry and engineering data are input using a familiar spreadsheet format. As data is entered, Tilt-Werks® builds the tilt-up wall on screen, allowing the designer to visually verify the accuracy of the input and interactively make additions and changes. Using this information, Tilt-Werks® will then automatically generate complete panel design/detail drawings, engineering calculations, reinforcing steel design and drawings, reinforcing bar cut lists, material and product quantity takeoffs and exportable data files for use with other drawing and estimating tools.
This information can be exported to customized interfaces within the Tilt-Werks® application created for manufacturers and suppliers to enable them to quickly respond to customer requests and project schedules. Rather than duplicating documents, project information and drawings can be shared in real time among the project team, using Tilt-Werks®. These features can literally cut weeks of time from the project design and construction schedule.
Tilt-Werks® is the only tilt-up BIM application that integrates structural engineering design and calculations with geometric building design and creation of drawings and estimates in one package. Other general features for this collaborative community include:
- Remote Access: Users can access their projects anywhere they have internet access and receive real-time access to project data.
- Project Data Hosting: All project data is hosted and stored on a nationwide network of servers, making it available to all project team members on a 24/7 basis.
- Preservation of Data: Tilt-Werks® is designed to back-up all user data on a daily basis.
- Application Updates: Tilt-Werks® is a subscription web based application so updates and enhancements to the application happen automatically and do not require downloads.
- Security: Tilt-Werks® is a secure online application that is available only to authorized users.
"Building technology that werks™" is the focus of TDS and our collaborative technology. Tilt-Werks® is a fully integrated resource that expedites the construction of tilt-up projects from preliminary design through structural engineering, preparation of shop drawings and continues on to material take-offs, project cost estimates and integration with industry suppliers.
