One of the major bottlenecks in construction a new building is the structural design creation. It is largely a manual process that is prone to error; the consequences of such errors range from project cost overrun to construction worker injury. However, two entrepreneurs discovered it was possible to apply advanced aerospace analysis techniques to automate the construction industry’s structural design process. Martin Diz and Juan Aleman created TANGObuilder to address a canonical problem in structural design. TANGObuilder uses robust aerospace structural analysis techniques to optimize and automate structural building designs. The startup is based in San Francisco.
Ralph Gootee, cofounder of PlanGrid (acquired by Autodesk for $875M) and an angel investor in TANGObuilder, says, “The software used in the building design process has seen no significant update in the last 20 years. TANGObuilder brings aerospace’s design methodologies and advanced algorithms into the construction…