I'm working on reducing the embodied carbon of a project of mine, and I'm having to compare column systems, between WF columns and HSS. WF columns have significantly lower embodied carbon (~60% reductions when using the same weight of steel), so I...

The Concrete Beam Design module and the Concrete Column Design modules are not fully integrated with Elements with round-trip functionality. You can export geometry, loads, and selected design parameters from an Elements model to these modules, pe...

There is a pretty nice procedure for importing geometry from RAM SS to RAM Concept for two-way slab design and vise versa to capture the two-way slab properties in RAM SS. But this is really only idealized for when there is only a two-way podium a...

For outputs, add the member description, not just the number

Given the apparent impasse on acquiring licenses to FloorVibe, and the number of hurdles in the way of using FloorVibe, it seems that integrating this analysis directly within RAM SS would be beneficial. For a long time this was a selling point of...

Add the ability to automatically show the maximum and minimum force/moment from a selected group of beams

A place where users can type in notes. This could be in an extra tab beside the gen/self-weight tab and have similar functionality to the Windows Notepad. This would be especially beneficial for internal use where review comments or reminders coul...

When outputting the 'Force Envelope at Stations' and attempting to select 2 stations, a pop occurs saying that a minimum of 3 stations are required. The ability to show only 0% and 100%, the end reactions would be immensely helpful.

Create a live load reduction factor in the design parameters for each material type. This way the live load is captured in the analysis and reduced accordingly in the design. This might cause an issue with 2nd order analysis if you don't want all ...

It would be very appropriate to include equations for demand/capacities in the report for things like sliding resistance, moment, shear, etc. For example, for sliding resistance, the passive equation, the cohesion equation, and the coefficient of ...