Design: The very first item is the creation of the building geometry. In the simplest of terms this is the CAD like design of the building complete with roof trusses, wall frames, floor and substructure.

Execute Engineering: Once the geometry is defined, the user is able to activate the engineering module from either the pull down menu or the engineering icon button.

Mechanical Properties: Each graphical entity used in creation of the building is associated with a stock item. These stock items are contained within a relational database containing pricing details along with dimensional and mechanical properties.

Loads: The first pass by the engineering module is to apply the live, dead and wind loads to the structure. The wind load is based on the wind category that has been entered at the time of creating the project while dead loads are obtained from the inventory list of components used in the creation of the design. Live loads are featured throughout the design to cater for service and maintenance activities.

Analysis: All of the load conditions that have been applied to the engineering module use a top/down process to analyse the resultant forces in each structural member and through connections/fasteners.

Design Check: The last process is to determine if the building design complies with the relevant specification being AS4600(Subject to country of operation)

Change: The user can amend the design or open up the entity properties dialog and select one of the possible rectification solutions.

Engineering Flag: If the engineering process has confirmed that the design complies,an "Engineering Completed" flag is set "True". Once this flag has been set to true, then reports can be produced along with quotation and drawings.

BOM/ROM: The last process is to create a list of all materials used in the supply of the building along with the work activities to roll, assemble and install the building. The bills of material(BOM) and bills of work(BOW) enable a very detailed and accurate costing to be performed including a quotation for the customer.