Top 5 Reasons to Consider ADAPT-Builder
- Modeling Ease
- Tendon Design
- Multistory Building Design
- Column and Wall Design
- Expansive Soils
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Modeling Ease
Simplify your workflow with ADAPT-Builder's powerful 3D modeling tools. Model complex geometries like sloping slabs, stepped slabs, and ramps effortlessly. With features like automatic support connections, dynamic dimensioning, properties grid, and post-tensioning integration, ADAPT-Builder ensures accuracy and efficiency at every stage of your project.
Features Include:- Automatic Connection of Supports
- Transform DXF to structural components
- Ramp Modeling
- Stepped Slabs
- Properties Grid
- Dynamic Dimensioning
- Sloped Columns
- Wall Openings
- Post-Tensioning
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Tendon Design
Whether inputting tendons for a new project or an existing structure, ADAPT-Builder offers Smart Tendon tools that enhance the efficiency of creating and modifying tendons within a model.
Optimize tendon design with ADAPT-Builder’s innovative Support Line Span Optimizer. Adjust tendons automatically leveraging FEM results for stress, precompression, and balanced loading compliance. Ensure code accuracy while saving time on the iterative process of post-tensioned concrete slab design.
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Multistory Building Design
From single slabs to multi-story buildings, ADAPT-Builder provides unmatched versatility. Tackle cracking, long-term deflections, and punching shear analysis with confidence. Solve gravity and lateral load cases independently while visualizing real-time results, all within one cohesive model.
Focus on an isolated slab (with incorporated multi-story results) allowing for a targeted design approach that is easy to review.
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Column and Wall Design
Simplify complex wall and column designs with features tailored to precision and efficiency. Define design parameters, including codes, phi factors, reinforcement, and more. Easily create axial-flexure interaction diagrams and review detailed wall intersections to ensure seamless end-zone reinforcement including special structural walls according to ACI 318-2019 Section 18.10.
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Expansive Soils
ADAPT-Builder equips you to tackle expansive soil challenges with ease. Effectively design post-tensioned, slab-on-grade foundations where other softwares fall short. Evaluate center and edge lift conditions and perform serviceability/compliance checks according to PTI methodology.
Did You Know?

Jordan Janicki, SE, PE
Structural Engineer at Facet
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