RCC Multi-Storey Building Design with ProtaStructure

Explore the eight-story hotel building design from scratch in protastructure, access the full structural design download, and master the guiding principles of structural design for aspiring engineers.

Create grid and column layers, copy the plan, and establish vertical and horizontal grid lines to produce a general arrangement drawing for an eight-story building, enabling column positioning and paneling.

Place columns on grid lines with appropriate sizes, such as 300 by 450, ensuring six-meter spacing, flush with walls, and consider Pi foundation and cantilever behavior.

Master slab paneling and beam placement for an eight-storey design. Learn to panel the structure, place beams, and keep bays under 30 square meters (P1, P2).

Learn to perform a structural superimpose by copying column positions to upper floors, check alignment, and identify columns terminating at the slab to avoid obstruction before exporting to proto structure.

Save your structural framing drawing and export it to DSF format for use in proto structure, preserving grid lines, column positions, and paneling before modeling in module six.

Import the dsf drawing into protostructure, map grid lines to axis and column elements, load and save, then prepare beams and slabs for an eight-story building design.

Learn to model structural members in proto structure by inserting concrete beams and slabs, setting beam width and depth, flushing with columns, and managing cantilevers and connections.

Insert slab elements, set thickness per BS code, and assign dead and live loads. Compare solid and rib slabs, and explore cantilever slab concepts for hotel buildings.

Master inserting a new storey in protostructure, create stair voids and cantilever slabs, copy columns and beams between stories, and apply parapet loads and offsets.

Insert multiple stories, apply wall loads on beams, and create cantilever slabs with rib slab options. Set headroom heights, adjust slabs, and prepare for live load and wind load steps.

Replace solid slabs with rib slabs to reduce building weight, applying them on panel areas while keeping cantilever, stair, and lift voids, then review the 3d view.

learn to load a structure and apply wind load for buildings taller than ten meters, using the wind load calculator and basic wind properties.

Learn to add wall loads on concrete beams in protastructure by selecting beams, editing load, and inputting wall unit weight, height, and thickness, then copy the load across floors.

Model the concrete roof by building a ten-story layout with basement, set up plan and 3d views, and detail slabs and cantilever beams while managing loads in Protastructure.

Create a partial wall load on the roof beam by measuring start and end points, inserting a beam workload, and setting a 2.85 m load within a 5.705 m beam.

Change structural member colors in Protastructure by using the layers and color settings panel to assign colors to columns, beams, walls, and slabs, adjust opacity, and preview results.

Create roof parapet walls in model 16, using full and partial parapet loads along perimeter beams, with height 1.2 m and thickness 0.225 m, checked in plan and 3D views.

Learn to model the basement in an eight story building by inserting basement level, replacing cantilever slabs with a concrete retaining wall, and aligning beams and loads in 3d view.

Discuss how the Aikido software supports eight-story hotel design by applying basement soil loads in the 2022 version, contrasting with 2018 limitations, and preview slab draft design in proto structure.

Discover slab raft foundation modeling for an eight-story building by applying soil load to a basement wall, modeling the slab raft on storey zero, and performing slab draft analysis and design.

Design and analyze an eight-story hotel with soil load, raft foundation, and cut-strip modeling in Protastructure. Perform finite element building analysis and design of columns, beams, slabs, and mat foundation.