Super Civil CD: A Novel Concept

Super Civil CD is a unique civil, structural and architectural engineering handbook-cum- design software on CD-ROM is exactly like a mini encyclopedia of civil engineering. It has been aimed at providing varieties of information and tools for the construction industry in a single CD. It is extremely beneficial and useful to professionals including Architects, Builders, Contractors, Structural Engineers, Consultants, Designers / Draughtsmen, Project Managers, Estimators / Tenderers, civil engineers, and students. In totality, it is of extreme help for those who are directly or indirectly associated with construction industry.

The CD contains 80 designed programs and more than 3,000 pages of hard core information in the form of tables, charts, AutoCAD drawings, details, and standards.

Its extremely interesting feature is the usage of several small user-friendly programs as against a single larger one. Some of the diverse features contained in the CD for various clients engaged in the construction sector:

• Architects & Builders
  It contains Architectural standards, information, Standard specifications, Bye-laws of various Indian cities, Modules of standard data-bank for instant costing, Several Architectural plans of single and multi-storied buildings, List of Building material suppliers, Product profiles about Architecture and Civil engineering.
• Structural Engineers & Consultants
  It gives complete specification about Standard tenders including Building, Piling, Soil investigation, Survey and Repairs, Standard specifications, Water-proofing specifications, Design programs for RCC, Steel based on the latest version of codes, Design of Roads, Drains and Grade slab, Standard design of trusses up to 30m span, Detailing sheets on Architecture, Concrete and Steel. In addition, it also contains Several Architectural, Civil and Structural drawings in Acad, Salient Features of IS 800: 2007 (recently added in Version 3).
• Contractors & Project Managers
  It makes easy Man-hour estimation, Material quantities, Rate Analysis for building works, Instant costing using data-bank, M-PWD schedule of rates, Vendor list, Product display, productivity tools, Information on CPM / PERT, ISO 9000, Concrete Mix Design, and Site Supervision (recently added in Version 3) easy.

The contents of SUPER CIVIL CD are over 300 MB and have much more exhaustive information and many more tools. The compiler has compacted experience of over three decades in the software. More importantly, one does not need any specific computer training to use this. This makes it a convenient Alladin’s lamp that may be rubbed to the advantage of anyone in the field of construction.

Super Civil CD also makes up for the knowledge gap between what is taught in colleges and polytechnics and what is actually required on the job in a design office or on site. Its low price makes it attractive even to students, who should find it invaluable.