Version 1.2.13

Version 1.2.13 (25/03/2025)

New Features

Residential Building Features

• Comprehensive Area Metrics: When evaluating residential designs in Site Space, you can now view key area metrics like Gross Floor Area (GFA), Net Lettable Area (NLA), and Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act Carpet Area. These metrics are displayed at the tower level and can be determined both heuristically and geometrically, providing confidence in your feasibility studies.

• Combined Square Metre and Square Foot Display: Unit template and unit card views now display both square metres (SQM) and square feet (SQFT) for area metrics, catering to diverse user preferences.

• View Template Metrics in Scenarios: In Site Space, within a residential project scenario, you can now quickly review assigned and used unit templates. This includes details like the number of bedrooms, template names, and the count of instances used in your residential tower.

• Flexible Unit Template Management: You can now add and remove unit templates at the scenario level in Site Space when designing residential towers. This allows you to quickly determine which units are used for your buildings, with consideration for how this impacts metrics on the Scenario Comparison page.

• Closed-Loop Spine Creation: Architectural designers can now create closed-loop spines in Site Space, enabling new floorplate configurations with internal courtyards.

• Disable 3D Editing for Read-Only Projects: For sample projects, you can now disable 3D editing features for users from other organisations. This protects your sample projects from accidental modifications by external users.

• Split Branches from Residential Polylines: When editing the spine of a residential tower, you can now split segments by dragging from any available node, allowing you to create branched spines for more complex designs.

• Individual Element Selection in Mixed-Use Buildings: You can now select individual elements within a mixed-use building, enabling separate interaction and manipulation.

• Individual Criteria Editing for Mixed-Use Elements: When selecting multiple elements within a mixed-use building, you can now edit their criteria and individual placement directly from the Right-Hand Panel. This allows for precise adjustments without affecting other parts of the building.

• Customisable Floor Heights: For residential buildings, you can now edit the height of individual floorplates, giving you the flexibility to meet specific design requirements.

Industrial Building Features

• User-Defined Unit Mix Criteria: Developers and designers can now define the unit mix and target unit mix criteria for industrial buildings in Site Space. This enables the solver to merge typical unit bays to generate optimal layouts and provide relevant metrics.

Structural Features

• Apply Load Sets by Space Function: Structural engineers can now apply different load sets (e.g., Superimposed Dead Load and Live Load) to various zones or spaces based on the architect's spatial usage requirements, ensuring accurate structural design calculations.

• Compliance Checks for Loading Bays and Parking Lots: Once a building is solved, you can now view compliance checks for parking provision, ensuring your designs adhere to local regulations.

• Dynamic Lift Shaft Sizing: The lift shaft is now dynamically sized to fit the specified lift type, ensuring valid building geometry and coordinated wireframes.

• Code-Compliant Stair Flight Geometry: The stair flight geometry now complies with building codes and incorporates heuristic structural sizing, ensuring valid and functional stair designs.

• Solver-Driven Riser Placement (Core Cluster - Part 1 & 2): Risers can now be automatically placed within a floorplate, helping you confirm spatial requirements for MEP risers and route distribution elements efficiently.

• Configurable Minimum Riser Clearances: You can now view and edit the minimum clearances for each riser type in the Engineering Configuration. This allows you to assign preferred minimum clearances and reserve sufficient maintenance access and circulation paths.

• Automated Riser Vertical Penetration Type and Dimensions: The solver now automatically determines the vertical penetration type and dimensions of risers, ensuring they are placed clash-free with structural beams and allowing for efficient routing of MEP distribution elements.

• Automated Riser Quantity and Dimensions (Core Cluster): The solver now automatically determines the required number of risers on a floorplate within a Core Cluster, aiding in the efficient routing of MEP distribution elements throughout the building.

• Automated Riser Type Determination: The solver can now automatically determine which riser types are required based on the system, ensuring sufficient space is reserved within the building.

Supplier Features

• View Switchboard Equipment Schedules: Designers can now view the Circuit Breaker Schedule for switchboards in Building Space, allowing for validation of information and alignment with project requirements. A "View in 3D" button is also available within the schedule for quick visual reference.

• View Cooling Tower Properties: When you select a cooling tower product in Building Space, you can now view its related product configuration, specifications, and supplier information. This provides the details needed to make informed design decisions.

Site Features

• Enhanced Site Access Point Definition: Improvements have been made to the flow of adding site access points, including enhanced enforcement of minimum distance between them.

• Saved Views in Site Space: Designers can now create, edit, and download multiple saved views from the 3D scene in Site Space. This provides visual consistency for presentations and allows for easy revisiting of specific perspectives.

• Combined Mixed-Use Building Selection and Transformation: You can now select a mixed-use building as a single entity, allowing for easier interaction and transformation.

• Detailed Switchboard Properties in Building Space: When selecting a switchboard product in Building Space, you can now view its comprehensive configuration, specifications, and supplier information in the Right-Hand Panel. This includes electrical details like designed and rated incoming current and quantity for various switchboard types.

• User-Defined Switchboard Requirements in Engineering Configuration: You can now input criteria for switchboard products in the Engineering Configuration, such as preferred suppliers, load diversity factor, and spare rating. This ensures these preferences are prioritised during the solving process. You can also define access width and clearance dimensions.

• Detailed Switchgear Properties in Building Space: When selecting a switchgear product in Building Space, you can now view its configuration, specifications, and supplier information, including panel quantity, product type, dimensions, and performance properties.

• Rebranded Login Pages: The login pages have been updated with a clean, modern design that aligns with the new Podium branding, providing a consistent user experience.

• Seamless User Onboarding: The process for new users to log into Podium after receiving an invitation has been streamlined for a more intuitive experience.

• Generic Duct and Riser Sizing: You can now calculate and view the sizing of ducts (distribution elements) at any given airflow quantity, helping you account for them in building design and size associated risers if required.

Bug Fixes

Residential Building Features

• Consistent Modeless Window Sizing: The modeless window for template selection in the Spatial Editor now maintains a consistent size, even when no templates are found in a search, improving usability.

• Accurate Area Metrics for All Unit Mixes: Area metrics are now consistently displayed for all residential models, including those created with specific unit mixes, resolving previous display issues.

• No Endless Solving with Load Set Changes: Changing load sets for residential buildings no longer causes endless solving, ensuring stable performance.

• No Overlapping Generating Set Elements: Generating set, Fuel Day Tank, and plinth elements in generating set rooms no longer overlap after re-federating the model.

• No Incorrect Unit Merging: Unit merging no longer occurs when the unit area is outside the defined criteria, ensuring designs adhere to specified parameters.

• Correct Structural Wall Units: Corrected units for shear force and bending moment demands for structural walls, ensuring accurate structural checks.

Industrial Building Features

• No Empty Organisation List During User Creation: The organisation list no longer appears empty when creating a new user in the tenancy admin, allowing for smooth user management.

• Resolved Element Selection Errors: Errors no longer occur when selecting steel beams or composite Universal Beams (joists) in Building Space, ensuring smooth interaction.

• Correct Unit Distribution: Industrial buildings now generate with unit distribution criteria as defined by the user.

• Correct Lift Pit and Core Placement: Lift pits and lift pit cores are now correctly placed below the lift shaft in modular industrial buildings.

• Consistent Supplier Name Display: Supplier names are now consistently displayed in the Right-Hand Panel when selecting slab, beam, or column elements in Building Space.

• Correct Access Point Placement Validation: Users are now prevented from placing site access points within the minimum distance, and clear validation warnings are displayed.

• Resolved API Validation Errors for User Invitation: User-friendly validation error messages are now displayed when an administrator attempts to invite users with invalid or pre-existing email addresses, or when encountering other API validation errors during the invitation process.

• Accurate Parking Lot Rendering: Parking lots now render correctly after updating criteria in the Engineering Configuration and site space.

• Consistent Parking Lot Depth Updates: Parking lot depth now correctly updates in existing models when the Engineering Configuration is changed.

• Comprehensive Schedule Options: All relevant schedules for structural products are now available and viewable/downloadable for industrial buildings with structural types 2, 4, and 6.

• Correct Area and Ceiling Heights for Roof Inline Units: Area and ceiling height values are now correct for roof inline units.

• Visible Dedicated Toilets: Dedicated toilets are now correctly rendered for smaller industrial unit depths.

• Consistent Stair Well Door Width: Changing stair width in the Engineering Configuration now correctly updates the stair well door width.

• Resolved Spatial MEPF Routing Solver Errors: "SpatialMepfRoutingSolver" errors no longer occur when both common and accessible toilets are disabled in Site Space for industrial buildings.

• Correct Cluster Toilet Door Location Display: The location of cluster toilet doors is now correctly displayed in the Right-Hand Panel.

• Accurate Stair Flight Placement: Stair flights are now correctly placed in Building View for industrial buildings.

• Correct Quadrants on Ramp Nodes: Incorrect quadrants on nodes for ramps in the spatial wireframe have been corrected.

• Resolved Broken Building Generation: Intermittent issues causing broken building generation in Site View for industrial buildings have been resolved.

• Updated Stair Riser Configuration Reflection: Updates to the Stair Riser configuration in the Engineering Configuration are now correctly reflected for existing industrial building models.

• Consistent Wind Action Diagrams: Wind action diagrams now correctly vary across storeys, providing accurate representation of wind loads.

Platform Stability & Enhancements

• No Saving Views Without Names: Users are now prevented from saving views without a name.

• Resolved Naming Conflicts for Views: Issues with "view already exists" errors when creating new views with default names have been resolved.

• Consistent Modification Date for New Configurations: The modification date for new configurations now displays the correct date.

• Resolved "Empty Array" in Circuit Breaker Properties: The "empty array" issue in circuit breaker properties for outgoing panels has been fixed, and the solver now picks the best optimal group.

• Resolved Chiller Cooler Plant Location Update: Updates to the chiller cooler plant location in the Engineering Configuration are now correctly reflected in Building View for existing models.

• Functional "Invite User" Button: The "Invite User" button now performs an action and displays user-friendly validation error messages for invalid inputs.