Calculation Process

The engineering process of any interior system is broken down into actions and capacities.

Actions are the resultant forces we expect to see in a specific ceiling grid, wall stud, brace fixing etc.

Capacity is the measured or calculated strength of each individual ceiling grid, wall stud, brace fixing etc.

As long as each Capacity is greater than the specific Action the system passes. This of course includes safety factors built into both the capacity and actions, as per the relevant building standards.

Prenguin uses advanced algorithms (developed in house and validated by engineering firms) to calculate the Actions in each building element, at each floor level, given all of the unique Design Specifications. This can be hundreds or thousands of calculations depending on project size.

The known Capacities of all major products are maintained in Prenguins database. Therefore Prenguins algorithms can instantly compare these calculated actions to known capacities.

Traditional engineering requires a the use of spreadsheets or hand calculations to determine the actions for almost every building element, throughout the building, and then compare that to capacities spread through design table on the internet.