CHECKPOLE v5.3.0 released

CHECKPOLE v5.3.0 is now live and can be downloaded here. New features and enhancements include:

  • Updates to Terrain Category, shielding structures and Exposure Category detection algorithms to account for recent changes to Google’s map data format.
  • TIA-222-G/TIA-222-H: Updated ice wind speed maps for Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam and American Samoa.
  • TIA-222-G/TIA-222-H: Improved Topography Factor (Kzt) calculation including an option to adopt Crown Castle reference ENG-PRC-10040 design methodology.
  • TIA-222-G/TIA-222-H: View average upwind terrain level in Topography Factor (Kzt) review dialog.
  • Introduction of TIA-222-H Section 4.8.2 criteria leading to less conservative cross-section calculations at openings for steel monopoles.
by Chris Hackney

Chris founded Revolutio in 2012 as a part-time endeavour while working as a consulting structural engineer, but the underlying work can be traced back to his time as an undergraduate at the University of Sydney in 2007. He has worked for Taylor Thomson Whitting, SCP Consulting and Opus International Consultants and was involved in a number of high-profile engineering projects across Oceania, such as retrofitting walkways to the Sydney Harbour Bridge, earthquake assessments in Christchurch, and developing a tablet-based structural inspection application for the Northwest Rail Link.

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