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G R Bold & Associates cc, led by Geoff Bold in Cape Town, provides structural engineering services for projects such as industrial buildings, office and residential blocks, and up-market homes. The firm’s challenge is turning architects’ drawings into practical structural schemes quickly and accurately, often working from DXF files and facing late-stage design constraints, complex detailing, and increasingly demanding green-building requirements.
AllyCAD has been used by G R Bold & Associates cc for more than 20 years to import, clean up, and transform architectural plans into structural drawings, reinforcing layouts, and beam, column, and slab schedules. By building a large reusable drawing library and reusing and modifying previous details, the firm significantly speeds up design work and can produce new beam schedules in minutes, while AllyCAD’s compatibility with files from almost any CAD package makes the workflow easier and more efficient.
Geoff Bold
G R Bold & Associates cc