As CODEME’s projects expanded, engineers faced growing pressure to deliver precise designs within shorter timelines. Working closely with BIM WORKS Brasil, the team often tackled complex steel and concrete structures requiring reliable verification of forces and details.
To keep up with increasing demands, they needed a way to reduce manual work, improve accuracy, and ensure every project stayed on schedule. Traditional spreadsheets had served well for years, but they were no longer enough to meet the complexity and pace of modern engineering.
The challenge – accuracy under pressure
Each complex steel connection required hours of manual input and force calculations. One connection could take up to six hours to finalize. In addition, integrating results from different design platforms into downstream BIM workflows created extra friction and increased the risk of inconsistency.
With more international projects on the horizon, another challenge emerged: the need to communicate results clearly across multiple languages. Engineers had to deliver accurate documentation that clients abroad could easily understand and verify.
CODEME’s team realized that improving accuracy, clarity, and speed would require a change in both process and tools.
The approach – connecting tools and teams
To overcome these challenges, CODEME implemented IDEA StatiCa, integrating it directly into their existing workflow with and . This allowed engineers to import all acting forces at a node directly into the IDEA StatiCa Connection app and perform complete verification of all components in one environment.
