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Design Checker

Shoring Design Calculator

Preliminary shoring aid - post/prop layout, shoring beams, and diagonal wall-form braces with ACI 347 loads and manufacturer Safe Working Loads.

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Shoring Design Calculator running in the CoLateral workspace
Shoring Design Calculator in the CoLateral desktop workspace.

What it does

0 kPa minimums), the tributary load per post, the height-derated manufacturer Safe Working Load, the utilisation, and a recommended economical post grid for a plan region; (2) shoring beam / stringer check - line load from tributary width, simple-span or 3-span-continuous bending, shear and deflection utilisation against representative aluminium/timber/LVL/steel beam allowables, plus the governing maximum span; (3) diagonal wall-form brace - fresh-concrete lateral pressure (ACI 347 rate-of-placement or hydrostatic envelope), the brace axial demand from first-order statics, the length-derated push-pull prop SWL utilisation, and a recommended brace spacing. Schematic plan/elevation/section canvases, presets, project-sync broadcast, and copy/CSV/JSON/print export.

What it does not do

Screening / design-aid only. ). 0 temporary-works safety factor); equal post loads are assumed with no edge/opening concentration; beams use idealised UDL coefficients with no LTB, web crippling, or connection design; the wall brace is a first-order statics model and does NOT design the brace-end anchorages, base kicker, form panel, or re-shoring/ground bearing.

Not a sealed falsework design.

How to use it

Use for preliminary shoring layout, member screening, and review-package preparation. 1 (or local equivalent) using the actual manufacturer Safe Working Loads before any site use.

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Use Shoring Design Calculator in your own projects

Every tool ships inside the CoLateral desktop workspace, so a result can stay attached to the project, the drawing, and the review trail it belongs to instead of ending up in a loose spreadsheet.

Outputs are design aids and stay in draft until a qualified engineer reviews and approves them.