Product Info

Structural Toolkit™ is structural design software developed specifically to meet the demanding requirements of a professional structural design office. It provides features to fast-track everyday design tasks, delivering fast and accurate designs for Australian codes and practices.

Tools provided include steel design, concrete design, timber design and masonry design as well as containing common section libraries. References and relevant code clauses are shown and results may be fine tuned with many additional options available. Printed outputs are typically formatted for a single A4 page and can include project details and a customised company logo. You can also output directly to PDF using the in-built PDF printer.

Documents can be arranged into sections, saved and re-loaded. Supported document types include Member Designs, spreadsheets, text documents and PDF's.

Assisting designers since 2002, Structural Toolkit offers a fast, reliable and very cost-effective tool for the Professional Design Engineer.

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About the Author
photo Tony Furr is a practising Structural and Civil Engineer with almost 20 years of experience, including five years as the Director of his own consulting practice located in Melbourne's eastern suburbs.

The programming behind Structural Toolkit has its origins in the early 1990's as the result of an interest in computers (developed around the age of 10) and a difficulty in producing consistant answers with a calculator.

Tony needed a method of completing his daily engineering calculations that eliminated computation errors, increased calculation speed and prompted the correct use of Standards and formulas. As his 'toolkit' became more sophisticated, interest from collegues made Tony realise that other engineers had similar problems. Not all had the time and/or interest to develop a computer based aid, so in 2002 Structural Toolkit was born.

Tony maintains a keen interest in the analysis and design of Steel framed industrial structures from an influential period, early in his career. His programming interest has now extended to second order analysis methods.

Married with two children, Tony knows the less time it takes to complete necessary work means more time for family and friends...well that's the theory.

Testimonials
A cost effective, professional design solution

"Tony Furr is an astute engineer and the brains behind Structural Toolkit. Structural Toolkit is a suite of structural design tools, used on a daily basis by our team.

Having worked with Tony, as a senior engineer in our company, we know him and his capability. Our level of trust and professional respect for Tony enables us to be confident when referring Structural Toolkit to our peers.

Tony Furr's software product fills a gap in the market by providing both an effective and cost efficient design tool.

Cardno is a large and diverse company that is committed to meeting the needs of our clients - both large and small. It is a pleasure to recommend Structural Toolkit to Australian designers looking for a cost effective, professional design solution that meets Australian Standards."

- Tony Growse, Business Unit Manager, Cardno Grogan Richards, Collingwood www.cardno.com/groganrichards


Having it gives them an advantage over those that don't

We contracted the services of specialist consultants Leading Matters to gain insight and testimonials from our clients. The following is an excerpt from their report for us.

"Thank you for the opportunity to survey your clients for their opinions and feedback about Structural Toolkit and to seek Brilliant Testimonials - BTs® from these clients for your marketing and business communications. The results of our process were very interesting. While several of your clients were willing and happy to provide testimonials for you, a few declined the opportunity to publically endorse Structural Toolkit because they maintain having it gives them an advantage over those that don't have it because the product is so valuable to them and their error rate is reduced by 100%! I am happy to report that I heard this feedback but disappointed we were unable to substantiate it for you in writing from these clients. We wish you well with Structural Toolkit which is clearly having a considerably positive impact on the structural and civil engineering world."

- Leigh Stafford, Director, Leading Matters Pty Ltd, Caulfield South www.leadingmatters.com.au


Saves our company a lot of expensive design time

"Structural Toolkit by Anthony Furr Software is a simple to use and effective software program that saves our company a lot of expensive design time. Our team uses it extensively as a design tool as a standalone program, and as back-up for more sophisticated structural engineering software. It rolls the job of traditional in-house spreadsheet packages into just one program which makes it both handy to use, time efficient and a cost effective proposition for us and is therefore beneficial to our clients. I highly recommend Structural Toolkit for structural design engineers because in addition to the time it saves, the potential for manual errors is considerably reduced."

- Gavin Donohue, Director, Adams Consulting Engineers Pty Ltd, Hawthorn East www.adamseng.com.au


It's the smart engineer's good friend

" I used to write my own spreadsheets to carry out the computations needed for structural design and it was both time consuming and I knew there had to be a better way. I was looking for a windows based application to help our structural engineers concentrate on the projects they were working on and cut down the huge amount of time they need to spend on computations.

Structural Toolkit by Anthony Furr Software provides an excellent solution for us and definitely saves us a great deal of both time and money. It eliminates margins for errors and most computations are compiled into a one-page computation which is iterative. This means that engineers can make even the smallest required changes and the program simply automatically updates ensuring all computations remain correct.

About 90% of hand computations in our office are carried out by our engineers using Structural Toolkit. One program does it all and hand computations are a thing of the past. It has wide applications all in one package, shows every step of the process and covers timber, steel and concrete. Structural Toolkit is a basic tool which has become a necessity. It's the smart engineer's good friend.

As the software designers of Structural Toolkit, AFS provide us with updates for the software to ensure we are fully compliant with the current Australian Standards. To have this service from a company we can rely on and trust is a great help to us and I am happy to recommend both the company and their product. ."

- A'pillai Ramesh Senior Associate, Barry Gale Engineers, Southbank www.barrygaleengineers.com


Proven to be the best value for money

" Nilsson, Noel & Holmes (Engineers) is a structural and civil engineering consultancy whose core business is producing structural designs for residential, industrial and commercial structures and civil design for subdivisions. We have been using Structural Toolkit by Anthony Furr Software since its release in 2002.

Structural Toolkit is designed and written by a structural engineer and naturally reflects the way we carry out design and produce our calculations. Its comprehensive range of design modules covers virtually all design scenarios that we regularly encounter, almost eradicating the need for hand computations and we are able to produce complex sets of calculations in a fraction of the time. The interface is well laid out and the software logical and simple to operate. Structural Toolkit is regularly updated in line with changes to Australian Standards and we have confidence in its currency and accuracy.

Of all the software that we utilise, Structural Toolkit has proven to be the best value for money. We have no hesitation in recommending this product to any consulting engineer who is looking to enhance their efficiency and maximise their profits. "

- Peter Holmes, Director, NNH Engineers, Frankston www.nnhengineers.com.au


I can verify the time savings

"I can verify the time savings in using Structural Toolkit through the work that I did in Brisbane. An average concrete beam would have taken me up to 40 minutes to design by hand, maybe only 20 minutes using my own design spreadsheets (with a certain lack of reliability and accuracy with my own spreadsheets which are not very sophisticated). Using Structural Toolkit, I found that I could complete a beam design within about 5-10 minutes easily.

We did a lot of multi-storey residential slab designs that I modelled and analysed using Slabs (Inducta) software. I used Structural Toolkit alongside Slabs to design the slabs and beams, with the greatest efficiency being in quick checks against alanysis and easy modification of beams sizes / details"

- Lorreta Agnew, Senior Structural Engineer