Real-time Structural Design
Branch Concept Lite enables architects, structural engineers, and owners to compare building structure options in real time. Quickly compare concrete, steel, timber and hybrid structures with live carbon and quantity updates.
What if Exploring
Concepts didn’t take weeks?
In traditional structural workflows, exploration is constrained by a linear, critical-path process: each phase depends on the one before it, and every new option requires the sequence to begin again.
When comparing alternatives takes 1-3 weeks, teams often make decisions without sufficient option study.
Structural Framing Studies
+ Days
Material Options
+ Days
Carbon Calcs
+ Days
Quantity Takeoffs
+ Days
Engineer Review
+ Days
1–3 weeks per alternative
Get to Know Branch Concept Lite
Take a Closer Look
Real-time Structural Analysis and Element Design
Every beam, column, and floor panel sized continuously as you edit with no export, no wait, and no separate analysis step.
Compare Structural Systems
Switch materials, systems, and grids with one click. Explore the impact of materials, systems, suppliers in minutes, not weeks.
Carbon Analysis You Can Trust
Embodied carbon calculated from real member sizes and quantities — not rules of thumb or area-based assumptions.
Explore Options, Decide Faster
Run live design charrettes with architects, engineers, and owners. Finalize structural concepts in a session, not a week of email.
Coming Soon. More Geometry, More Freedom.
Branch Concept is built for the way real buildings come together: off-grid columns, transfer slabs, setbacks, slab openings. The structural system updates as you change the geometry.
A Building Model
Every Consultant Can Edit. Live.
Compare any schemes side by side. Converge on the design that meets your project goals faster, with each comparison sharpening the next.
Concept Lite
- Real-time structural analysis
- Sizing with fire protection and fire rating considered
- Multi-bay structural exploration
- Timber, steel, concrete, and hybrid materials
- Real-time carbon and quantities
Branch Concept
The whole building. Real materials, real codes, real teams, all in one model.
- Increased geometric complexity: setbacks, irregular forms, with more to come
- Override individual beam, column, and floor panel sizing
- Structural analysis integrated directly in the model with full introspection
- US, Canadian, and European code references, built in
- Comparison dashboards to support optioneering workflows
- Save project workspaces to control options and share with consultants
- Interoperability with industry software
- Plan drawing PDFs direct from Branch
- Detailed BOM and quantity take-offs with export to Excel
