Version 1.2.12

Version 1.2.12 (12/02/2025)

New Features

Residential Building Features

• Residential Tower Metrics: You can now add one or more residential towers on the site, podium, or basement, and the platform will automatically generate floor areas and calculate metric data for them, providing immediate insights into your design.

• Define Hammerhead Configurations on Spine: When designing residential blocks, you can now define hammerhead configurations on spine nodes. This allows for the creation of hammerhead unit designs along your residential floorplate, offering more architectural flexibility.

Industrial Building Features

• Void Space Generation in Core Zone: The platform now intelligently creates void spaces behind extra space in core zones. This includes automatically generating structural beams at the start and end of the void, ensuring a robust and accurate structural wireframe.

• Full Width Loading Bay Criteria: You can now toggle the dedicated parking width in the Right-Hand Panel based on your unit sizes. This feature helps maximise the area allocated for unit space within industrial designs.

• Define Loading Bay Zone Depth in Engineering Configuration: The solver can now read user-defined criteria from the Engineering Configuration to determine the required depth of the loading bay zone. This allows for precise control over loading bay dimensions based on your specific needs (e.g., number of heavy vehicle or car lots).

• Improved Core Element Positioning: When you define unit depth and unit bay width in Site Space, the solver now allocates space for core elements (lifts, staircases, common/accessible toilets, and MEP risers) more effectively. It uses the appropriate spatial framework to generate core positioning based on unit width, allowing for both compact and large layouts.

• Feasibility Compliance Check for Road Width: Podium now includes compliance checks for road width, specifically ensuring adequate turning space for emergency vehicles like fire engines. It differentiates between accessways and access roads, and accounts for bi-directional access, helping you meet local regulations.

• Configurable Staircase to User Criteria: When you specify or edit the floor-to-floor height of an industrial building in Site Space, it will now adjust in default increments based on the Engineering Configuration. You can also input custom floor-to-floor heights, overriding defaults to ensure compliance with stair solver requirements.

Structural Features

• Apply Post-Tensioned (PT) Beams for Ramps: You can now specify structural floor systems with post-tensioned concrete beams for ramps. This allows for their consideration as a potential structural solution, enabling material outcome evaluation and design verification by a structural engineer.

• Select Space and View Properties: You can now select individual spaces within the 3D user interface and view their associated properties in the Right-Hand Panel. This helps you confirm the spatial and engineering requirements for each space.

• API for Common Space Types & Properties: A new API allows for setting up common structural and MEP space types and properties. This enables applying specific engineering design parameters to different spaces based on architectural usage, leading to more detailed analysis.

• Electrical System Demand Solving: The platform can now apply specific electrical design parameters to different spaces based on architectural usage, enabling more detailed electrical design analysis for spaces and the overall building.

• Mechanical System Demand Solving: Similar to electrical systems, specific mechanical design parameters can now be applied to different spaces based on architectural usage, providing a more detailed analysis of the mechanical design for the spaces and building.

• Automatic Access Door/Portal for Toilet Blocks: When a common toilet block is solved, it will now automatically include an access door, ensuring valid geometry.

Supplier Features

• Consistent Supplier Naming: Supplier users can now control their company's name within Podium, ensuring consistency across all areas of the platform (Tenancy Security, Company Profile, Product Catalogue, etc.) without needing support team intervention.

• View Switchgear Equipment Schedule: Designers can now view the switchgear equipment schedule in the schedule tab, allowing for validation of information and ensuring design alignment with project requirements.

• Rendered Switchgear Geometry and Resized Rooms: When a suitable switchgear is selected in Building Space, its geometry is now rendered, and the HV Switchroom reserved space automatically resizes. This provides clear visualisation of placement and ensures adequate space for integration.

• Solve for Suitable Switchgear Product: The switchgear configuration and product selection solvers now run automatically upon entering Building Space, selecting the most suitable switchgear product based on design criteria. This helps determine if an HV switchroom is needed and allocates space efficiently.

• Input User Switchgear Requirements in Engineering Configuration: You can now add criteria for switchgear products in the Engineering Configuration, such as preferred suppliers, type, rated voltage, maximum length, and number of bus coupler or reserved panels. This prioritises these preferences during the solving process.

• View Generator Equipment Schedule: Designers can now view the Generator equipment schedule in the schedule tab, enabling validation of information and ensuring design alignment with project requirements. A "View in 3D" button is also available within the schedule for quick visual reference.

• Get Generator Properties in Building Space: When you select a generator product in Building Space, you can now see its related configuration, specifications, and supplier information. This provides accurate data for informed project decisions.

• Solve for Suitable Generator Product: Upon entering Building Space, the generator configuration and product selection solvers run to select the most suitable generator product based on design criteria. This helps ensure optimal emergency backup power and efficient space allocation.

Site Features

• First-Time User Experience Pop-up: A new generic component has been implemented for first-time user pop-up messages. This provides helpful notifications to guide new users through platform interactions, making it easier to get started.

• View Generic Building Metrics: Architectural designers can now select and review generic buildings on their site and view their metrics, including total height and total area, providing quick insights.

• Password Reset for Forgotten Credentials: Users who forget their login password can now easily reset it to regain access to Podium.

Bug Fixes

Residential Building Features

• Metrics Update for Basement Objects: Metrics for basement objects now correctly update after solving, rather than requiring deselection and reselection.

• Building Solves with Lift Cluster/Zone Issues: The building will now solve even if either the lift cluster or lift zone is not present in the residential tower, preventing previous solving failures.

• No Infinite Solver Loop on Tower Deletion: Deleting a tower or building no longer causes solvers to process infinitely; they now correctly stop.

Industrial Building Features

• No "Something Went Wrong" Page for Lifts and Chillers: The "Something Went Wrong" page no longer appears when selecting lifts or chillers in Building Space, allowing for seamless interaction.

• Surface Parking Lots Solve Correctly: Surface parking lots are now correctly allocated and solved for industrial buildings.

• Resolved "SpatialLoadingBayLayoutSolver" Error: The "SpatialLoadingBayLayoutSolver" error no longer appears when switching from Building View back to Site View.

• No "SpatialLoadingBayLayoutSolver" Error for Entry/Exit Points: The "SpatialLoadingBayLayoutSolver" error no longer intermittently occurs after adding site entrance/exit points for industrial projects.

• No Solver Errors for Small Industrial Buildings with Angles: Issues causing intermittent solver errors for small industrial buildings with spine angles other than 180 degrees have been resolved.

• Correct Driveway Width Units: Driveway widths now correctly use the uValue format, ensuring units are displayed.

• Model Solves with 30m Unit Width: Models no longer fail to solve when the unit width is 30m (for specific ramp types), preventing previous ramp solver errors.

• Correct Beam Orientation for Rotated Ramps: Beams for rotated ramps now slope gradually with the slab, resolving previous issues where they appeared horizontal and formed step-like structures.

Structural Features

• Correct Composite Column Axial Forces: The axial load computed for composite columns (System Type 8) is no longer underestimated, ensuring accurate structural calculations.

• Corrected Pilecap Dimensions & OM Data: The pilecap dimensions and Object Model (OM) data reported in the Right-Hand Panel are now correct and updated after L1 solving. Missing properties from the OM for pilecap have also been added.

• Models Re-federate for Continuous Beams Toggle: Models now correctly re-federate when the continuous beams toggle is changed from ON to OFF or OFF to ON, ensuring design updates are applied.

• Correct Solver Sequence for EC System Type Changes: When changing structural system types in the Engineering Configuration, the solvers now execute in the correct sequence (slabs, joists, beams, columns), and material changes appear as expected. The column solver will no longer re-trigger if the beam solver throws errors.

• Surface Parking Included in Compliance Checks: Surface parking lots are now correctly considered in parking compliance checks.

• No Continuous Solving for Structural System Type 7: Models with structural system type 7 no longer continuously solve, ensuring stable performance.

• No Incorrect Structural Checks for Walls: Incorrect units for shear force and bending moment demand for structural walls have been corrected, and the Utilisation Ratio (UR) for bending moment 22 is now correctly displayed.

• All Selected Products in Structural System Results Summary: All selected products are now visible in the Structural System Results Summary, providing a complete overview.

Platform Stability & Enhancements

• Accept Button in Toolbar Functioning: The "Accept" button in the toolbar now works correctly after making changes to a model.

• No Empty User Role on Edit/Invite: The user role no longer appears empty when an administrator edits an existing user or invites a new user, ensuring proper role assignment.

• Recent Projects Visible: Recent projects are now correctly displayed, improving navigation and access to ongoing work.

• No Building Solving Errors with 180-Degree Ramp: Buildings no longer fail to solve and throw errors when the ramp is set at 180 degrees in Site Space.

• Driveway Widths Using uValue Format: Driveway widths now use the uValue format, ensuring units are correctly displayed.

• No Multiple Issues for Small Industrial Buildings: The intermittent issues encountered for small industrial buildings with angles other than 180 degrees have been resolved.

• Driveway Widths Using uValue Format: Driveway widths now use the uValue format, ensuring units are correctly displayed.

• No Model Solve Failure for 30m Unit Width: Models no longer fail to solve when the unit width is 30m (for specific ramp types), preventing previous ramp solver errors.

• Correct Beam Orientation for Rotated Ramp: Beams for rotated ramps now slope gradually with the slab, resolving previous issues where they appeared horizontal and formed step-like structures.

• Updated Pilecap Dimensions and OM Data: The pilecap dimensions and Object Model (OM) data reported in the Right-Hand Panel are now correct and updated after L1 solving. Missing properties from the OM for pilecap have also been added.

• Models Re-federate for Continuous Beams Toggle: Models now correctly re-federate when the continuous beams toggle is changed from ON to OFF or OFF to ON, ensuring design updates are applied.

• Site Address Updates in Portfolio Page: The site address now correctly updates in the Portfolio page after the site location has been changed.

• Solve Option Working on First Click: The solve option now works on the first click after making changes in the Right-Hand Panel.

• Notifications for Deactivated Users: Deactivated users now receive a notification to contact their administrator when attempting to log in, rather than an "Access Denied" screen. Additionally, the organisation administrator is now assigned as the project owner for shared projects previously owned by deactivated users.