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it time you standardize on the one solution
that ensures all your construction plans
are code compliant from start to finish? |
2009
Commercial Building Inspector®
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Intelligence
for your safety
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OptaSoft
is pleased to announce the release
of the world's most powerful,
innovative and the easiest construction
plan review tool that enables
the highest efficiency and ease
in tracking projects for code
compliance, allowing projects
to be completed in a timely
and cost-effective manner, while
maintaining the degree of protection
and life safety intended by
the applicable codes.
When
using our innovative solution
and leveraging the plan review
standards within your organization,
OptaSoft can deliver at your
finger tips 36,000,000,000,000,000,000
building code decisions, more
capabilities, more power, greater
quality and greater ease of
use to the International Building
Code.
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Features
at glance
Commercial
Building Inspector is so smart and easy, the straightforwardness
of the software leaves little necessity for training.
The software architecture comprise of components
that includes smart independent channels of building
code analysis integrated with the properties of
other components and forms a relationship that
gives you a world class efficient solution. The
following are some of the most frequently used
tools.
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Smart
building code tools
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Plan
review method - Perform either non-separated
or separated plan review in accordance with
the use and application of the International
building code. |
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Construction
Type - Perform an accurate intelligent
classification to the structure's construction
type in accordance with the use and application
of the International building code. |
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Occupancy
classification - Perform an intelligent
cross-referenced classification of structures
or structures with multiple uses into the
appropriate classification in accordance with
the use and application of the International
building code. |
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Most
restrictive occupancy - Perform an
intelligent occupancy classification to the
structure's when multiple occupancies exist
in accordance with the most restrictive applicable
provisions of the International Building Code.
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Accessory
use area - Perform an intelligent classification
of those occupancies that are ancillary to
the main occupancy of the building or portion
of the building in accordance with the use
and application of the International building
code. |
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General
building area and height - Perform
an intelligent determination to the maximum
value of the structure's area and height in
accordance with the use and application of
the International building code. |
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Building
area modification - Perform an intelligent
determination to the area modification (increase)
for areas within each floor which limited
by the applicable provisions due to frontage
and automatic sprinkler system. |
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Fire
sprinkler, alarm and detection system requirement
- Perform an intelligent determination
to the required installation of fire sprinkler
system, fire extinguishing system, standpipe
system, portable fire extinguisher, fire alarm
and detection system. |
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Separated
occupancy area ratio - Perform an intelligent
determination to the ratio of allowable area
of mixed occupancy buildings in which one
or more fire barriers separate the individual
occupancies in accordance with the use and
application of the International building
code.(Unity Formula) |
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Device
discharge capacity - Perform an intelligent
determination to the width of each egress
component on a “per occupant” basis
in accordance with the use and application
of the International building code. |
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Occupant
load calculation - Perform an intelligent
determination to the number of occupants computed
at the rate of one occupant per unit of area
in accordance with the use and application
of the International building code. |
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Exit
access travel distance - Perform an
intelligent maximum length of exit access
travel, measured from the most remote point
to the entrance to an exit along the natural
and unobstructed path of egress travel in
accordance with the use and application of
the International building code. |
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Exit
access doorway arrangement - Perform
an intelligent determination to the required
distance between exit access doorways which
located in a manner that makes their availability
obvious in accordance with the use and application
of the International building code. |
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Fire
walls resistance rating - Perform an
intelligent determination to the firewalls
minimum fire resistance rating in accordance
with the use and application of the International
building code. |
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Required
separation of occupancies - Perform
an intelligent determination to the required
separation of occupancies for each portion
of individually classified, as to use building
in accordance with the use and application
of the International building code. |
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Exterior
wall fire separation based on distance -
Perform an intelligent determination to the
fire resistance rating requirements for exterior
walls based on fire separation distance from
the property line in accordance with the use
and application of the International building
code. |
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Openings
protective fire ratings - Perform an
intelligent determination to the maximum area
of unprotected or protected openings permitted
in an exterior wall in any story in accordance
with the use and application of the International
building code. |
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Fire
window assembly fire protection ratings -
Perform an intelligent determination to the
minimum fire protection ratings for fire windows,
relative to the nature and fire-resistance
rating of the wall in accordance with the
use and application of the International building
code. |
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Efficiency
and Optimization tools
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Dynamic
floor generation - This feature can
be quite useful when you have a high-rise
structure. Instead of a manual declaration
to add an extra floor, let the software automatically
allocate and manage the memory needed to load
all 57 floor components and then create their
relationship. |
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Dynamic
copy of any floor information - This
feature can be quite useful when you have
a high-rise structure. Instead of manual insertion
to each element in the floor, let the software
automatically copy/insert data segments to
all 57 floor components. |
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Dynamic
deletion of top floor - This feature
can be quite useful when you have a high-rise
structure. Instead of manual deletion to each
element in the floor, let the software automatically
delete data segments to all 57 floor components
in one click. |
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Link
workspace to any folder - The software
is equipped with a feature that allows you
to directly and quickly access digitally stored
information, such as drawings, organization's
forms and applications. |
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Tracking
and monitoring software components-
Our systematic approach with C++ framework
that supports tracking and monitoring software
components allows you to re-review any project
with a click of a button. This feature can
be quite useful when a designer requests from
the permit issuing authority that the occupancy
classification, construction type or both
to be modified. In one sense, you will not
have to spend any time again addressing the
designer's request related to applying the
modification. |
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Color
code system - Our innovative software
is equipped with a color code system that
acts as a compliance status report builder.
You can exclude any module out of the project
so it won't be included in the final status
report. This feature is useful to easily continue
your review when you constantly moving away
from your desk. |
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Documentations, review status and permit
information tools
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Personalized
comments - This feature allows you
to quickly and easily insert your own comments,
federal, state, local regulations/ordinances
and locally amended version of the International
Building code into every module's. |
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Building
code definitions - This feature allows
you to access code definitions to all terms
used within the 2009 International Building
Code. |
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GIS
component -
Geocode/reverse Geocode and display
the property address of the structure that
being checked for compliance using Google
maps API. |
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Property
legal description - Capture
and manage detailed description to the referenced
land/property. Such information comprises
of the owner's name, subdivision name, census
tract and many more useful information. |
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Design
professionals - Capture and manage
all contact information of the architect/engineer
who is responsible for drafting the structure's
blueprints. Such information comprises of
the name, address and contact phone number. |
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Contractors
- Capture and manage all contact information
of the contractor who is responsible for constructing
the design. Such information comprises of
the name, address and contact phone number. |
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Elevators/Escalators
- Where applicable, capture and manage
the elevator or escalator information that
comprises of the serial number, capacity,
manufacturer and many more. |
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Plan
review information - Capture and manage
any applicable vital information that comprises
of the Job description, project overall review
status, special comment, required permits,
required inspections, required documents and
other agencies approvals. |
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Plan
review worksheets - These popular worksheets
are developed for municipal and design professionals
to prompt a technically comprehensive review
of all drawings and construction documents
for gaining valuable skills and insight for
plan review. |
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Building
Inspections - Checklist v-2.01 allows
you to quickly and easily create custom inspection
documents that conform to existing inspection
processes in which helps you standardize your
organization's inspection results. |
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