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- 12 June 2026
Who designs the steel connections? Delegated design, explained
On most steel frames the engineer designs the members and someone else designs the joints. Here's how delegated connection design works, where responsibility sits, and why fabricators bring it in-house with their detailer.
- 12 June 2026
Point cloud to Tekla: modelling existing steel where it really is
Most scan-to-BIM goes to Revit. When the job is structural steel — extensions, connections to existing frames, plant in live buildings — modelling directly in Tekla from the point cloud changes what the model can do.
- 12 June 2026
What ±2mm actually means in a scan-to-BIM model
Every scan-to-BIM provider quotes an accuracy figure. Here's what the number really describes, where the tolerance budget goes, and the questions worth asking before you commission a survey.