Structural schematic design in seconds, not weeks

Steel, concrete and mass timber schemes, compared side by side.

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Fill in the building cardFootprint, stories, use and loads, line by line. Every value stays editable.Start from a drawingOpen a PDF, DWG or DXF plan; we read the grid, the slab edge and the rooms.

What you get

Describe the building once. PocketStruct sizes a structure for it in steel, mass timber and concrete flat plate and puts the three side by side, so you can weigh the systems before the engineer joins the team.

Compare view for an 8-story office: embodied carbon, structure depth, clear height and materials for steel, mass timber and concrete — An 8-story office, 100 ft by 90 ft: carbon, structure depth, clear height and materials for each system.

Member sizes on your gridBeams, girders, columns, slabs and footings, drawn on the framing plan. Move columns, change bays and set floor uses right on the plan.
Quantities and embodied carbonTons of steel, cubic yards of concrete and cubic feet of wood, with cradle-to-gate carbon (A1–A3) from published EPDs, ±20 %.
Floor depth and clear heightHow deep each structure is and how much clear height it leaves below, from your floor-to-floor height.
Files for your engineerA calculation report for every system; for steel and concrete also a material takeoff and an ETABS model.

Steel framing plan of the same office: girders, spandrels and infill beams sized on the grid, with shear stud counts — The steel framing plan of the same building. Every member is sized; edit the plan and it updates.

Results are preliminary, for schematic design, and need checking by a licensed structural engineer. Structural engineer yourself? The engineering tools show every calculation step by step.