October 30, 2025

🎃 Trick or Treat… It’s RISA-Jeopardy! 👻

Halloween isn’t just for candy and costumes—it’s the perfect time to test your spooky engineering skills! We’ve brewed up a Halloween-themed RISA Jeopardy game, packed with fun, easy questions about our software. Tip for readers: Try to answer before revealing the “treat” below each question! 💀 Can You Count? 100 – RISACalc: How many components are currently available in RISACalc? 10 (Beam, Column, Steel Joist, Composite Beam, Retaining Wall, Spread Footing, Wall Footing, Drilled Pier, Seismic Load, Wind Load) 200 – FD: How many Data Entry spreadsheets are available in RISAFoundation? 25 300 – RISA-3D: How many countries or regions have building codes supported in RISA-3D? 9 (US, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Great Britain, India, Australia, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia) 🎃 Adaptable 100 – ADAPT: Which of these is not an ADAPT product? ADAPT-Builder, ADAPT-Felt, ADAPT-Floor, ADAPT-ABI ADAPT-Floor 200 – ADAPT: Which mode of ADAPT-Builder is used to design slabs-on-grade on expansive soils using the PTI method? ADAPT-SOG 🕸️ The Whole Family 100 – Other: This steel detailing software and fellow Nemetschek brand has a built-in export option in RISA-3D. SDS2 200 – Other: Which design code is the most common in our software, found in 8 of our 10 programs?…

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October 01, 2024

Scaling Factor for Basic Load Cases

The ability to apply a scaling factor to an entire Basic Load Case in the Basic Load Case spreadsheet is now available in RISA-3D v19. These scaling...

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October 01, 2024

Updated Shear Contribution for Concrete (Vc) per ACI 318-19

The new ACI 318-19 code has been implemented into RISA-3D v19, RISAFloor v15, and RISAFoundation v13. One of the biggest changes between the ACI...

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October 01, 2024

WEBINAR: What's New in the RISA Building System

Watch the recording of our webinar to learn how new versions of RISA-3D, RISAFloor, RISAFoundation and RISAConnection provide users with expanded...

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October 01, 2024

How to direct your local PC to the Network license?

How a Network license works RISA network licensed products are hosted with a License Server. This license server distributes the licenses to the...

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October 01, 2024

LIVE ONLINE TRAINING: Introducing the RISA-3D Quick Start Course

The Quick Start Course is a 4-hour introduction to the basic features and functionality of RISA-3D that utilizes expert instruction and example...

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October 01, 2024

Case Study: US Olympic & Paralympic Museum

Learn how KL&A utilized RISA to model and analyze the complex geometrical conditions of the new US Olympic & Paralympic Museum located in Colorado...

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October 01, 2024

Video: Efficient Design of RC and PT Elements in ADAPT-PT/RC

Learn how ADAPT-PT/RC uses a straightforward model input and definition process to efficiently analyze and design a variety of reinforced concrete...

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October 01, 2024

Troubleshooting Mesh Failures Using Component Representatives within…

ADAPT-Builder is a three-dimensional free-form finite element software for structural concrete modeling and analysis. Structural components in...

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October 01, 2024

Video: Custom Anchor Bolt Layouts in Column Base Plates

RISAConnection v12 now includes the ability for engineers to create and analyze custom anchor bolt layouts from scratch or using predefined...

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