Pilot AI-suggested structural options

Structural engineers have AI suggest structural options and carry out preliminary sizing

Future prospectAI Act: no extra obligationsDesigning & simulatingConstruction & architecture

Fits: Research & development

If it works: in early design, several structural options with rough preliminary sizing are available side by side more quickly, e.g. timber, reinforced concrete or hybrid, with quantities and member depths. Today this happens mainly in research projects, as an add-on in individual programs and in pilot offices. It is not suitable for structural verification.

Is this for you?

  • Your office wants to be a pilot partner or prepare early, because options take a lot of time in preliminary design.
  • You have completed projects with preliminary sizing and as-built design against which suggestions can be checked.
  • An experienced structural engineer can support a pilot over a few months.
First step today

Use the template below to have the state of AI for structural options and preliminary sizing compiled with sources, and check what is already built into your structural analysis software. Do not enter plans or structural calculations from ongoing projects.

How to go about it

  1. Define pilot projects, construction types and stop criteria
  2. Provide grids, loads and as-built calculations
  3. Have options suggested and pre-sized
  4. Recalculate and assess suggestions professionally
  5. Trial in parallel on an ongoing project
  6. Evaluate the pilot and decide

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BA-07 · Legal status 08.10.2026