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Harim Sazeh Sepahan Company

In a world where technology profoundly influences various aspects of life, Harim Sazeh Sepahan Company, relying on the Almighty God, is determined to provide products and services in the field of civil engineering and improve the quality of engineering services through timely and meaningful technical innovations — aiming to be regarded by customers as the most admirable company in its industry.

Harim Sazeh Sepahan, with the mission of synergizing science and wealth and realizing scientific and economic goals (including expanding and applying inventions and innovations in civil engineering) and commercializing research and development results (including design, production of products, and services) with high added value, began its activities as one of the country’s knowledge-based companies. The company aims to offer technical engineering services and promote the growth and advancement of the construction industry in Iran.

By leveraging the knowledge and technical information of its young engineers, the company seeks to enhance the quality level of ongoing projects to improve construction quality. Since its inception, quality and timely production have been the fundamental philosophy guiding its present and future.

Fields of Activity of Harim Sazeh Sepahan:

Harim Sazeh Sepahan started its activity in 2006 (1385 in the Iranian calendar) in the field of industrial structure design. After extensive studies, in 2008 (1387) — coinciding with the Year of Innovation and Prosperity — it completed the large-scale “Sooleh Pardaz” software project (the first specialized software for designing industrial sheds in Iran). After registering the software in May 2009 (Ordibehesht 1388), the company has attracted the attention of many industrial structure design and construction companies (both private and governmental).

The company consists of five independent units: design and calculation, supervision and implementation (civil engineering), market development, research and development, and administrative-financial and human resources. Currently, the group uses the most advanced equipment and software and benefits from experienced personnel aligned with international standards, holding a significant share in the development and industrial construction of the country.

Innovator of the first automatic industrial shed design software, Sooleh Pardaz

  • Providing consultancy in the design and execution of metal, industrial, spatial frame, and truss structures.

  • Designing and implementing industrial, metal, spatial frame, and truss structures.

Sooleh Pardaz – Automatic Industrial Shed Design Software:

Sooleh Pardaz is a powerful software dedicated to the analysis and design of industrial sheds. It is the only software in the world specialized for this task. The software can analyze and design multi-bay sheds with varying bay widths, sheds with subsidiary bays, sheds with curved roofs, and single-slope sheds. Additionally, it can analyze and design sheds with intermediate floors and central columns.

With this software, you can quickly and accurately obtain design files optimized for minimal steel plate waste, along with execution drawings and calculation booklets, all within less than an hour. Sooleh Pardaz draws detailed execution drawings in AutoCAD and performs manual checks on members and details in the calculation booklet. The latest version of the software includes a 3D model export feature for Tekla Structures.

One of the software’s highly practical features is the analysis and design of sheds equipped with cranes. Designing crane girders and crane beams is complex due to intricate relationships and challenging modeling. Precise modeling of crane girders and beams in SAP software requires significant expertise to resemble real conditions. Sooleh Pardaz, leveraging the experience of senior engineers and extensive research, automatically and accurately designs crane girders and beams when selected by the user.

Another important feature is the precise and very easy load application. Loads on sheds vary by region due to differences in snow, wind, and earthquake loads. In Sooleh Pardaz, by selecting the city where the shed will be located, the software automatically inputs relevant wind, snow, and earthquake load coefficients for that area and applies loads on the shed model with high accuracy.

Sooleh Pardaz analyzes and designs all shed components, so the user is almost completely free from manual or additional software tasks.

Software Inputs: span, height, length, roof slope, crane tonnage, roof covering load, distance between frames, wall and pedestal height, construction site characteristics (wind, snow, earthquake loads, allowable soil stress), etc.

Outputs:

The software starts with crane girder design. It proposes preliminary dimensions for the crane girder and beam, which the user can modify. The user enters thickness and width values for the flange and web plates and clicks to view results in seconds (the software checks bending and shear stresses, deflections, local buckling, and calculates girder weight). After several iterations, the user achieves the optimal design.

Next, the software designs crane beams similarly. Then, Sooleh Pardaz uses SAP software to automatically model the shed, apply loads per the Iranian code (Mabani 6) and seismic standard 2800, and perform design calculations. The user specifies flange and web dimensions for beams and columns, then with one click transfers these to SAP for member assignment. After 2D and 3D analysis and design, the results are reported to the user. Thus, the user can model a shed with two or three alternatives in minutes, compare weights and costs, and select the best design.

Additionally, Sooleh Pardaz includes an option to reduce steel plate waste. This means the user inputs standard plate dimensions available in the market, and the software accounts for minimizing plate wastage during design. A shed design with the lowest weight may not always be optimal due to excessive plate waste. The designer must consider both lightness and minimal plate waste, which Sooleh Pardaz manages.

After shed design, the software designs other components and produces calculation booklets and drawings within seconds. These include connections, column base plates, shed foundations, braces, knee braces, purlins, roof and wall bracing, wind columns, local buckling checks, soil stress checks, uplift control, column footings, anchor bolts, and beam-to-beam and beam-to-column connections.

Generally, many shed components like braces, column footings, crane girders, and beams are designed manually through trial and error: the designer assumes an initial section size, verifies its adequacy, then adjusts up or down until reaching an optimal section. This trial-and-error process is very time-consuming and done manually with calculations on paper and calculators. Designers often start conservatively with high safety factors to reach acceptable solutions by the second attempt.

For example, designing crane girders (often done by experience rather than engineering design) or crane beams may take several hours for each trial.

Finally, after connection, footing, and base plate calculations and determining the optimal design, the software produces outputs including:

  • Calculation booklets in Word files,

  • Execution drawings in AutoCAD files, arranged as sheets,

  • Tekla output files.

Key Benefits of Using Sooleh Pardaz:

  • Increased safety level of shed designs due to reduced errors and accurate calculations.

  • Comprehensive and high-quality design enabling shed construction exactly as planned (including detailed shop drawings for beams, columns, and even crane girders).

  • Significant time savings in industrial project design.

  • Prevention of material and resource waste (steel, concrete, etc.), reducing construction costs and preserving national resources.

  • Ability to estimate materials and costs, reducing project risks by clarifying required resources and preventing disputes between clients and contractors.

Target Market:

  • Industrial shed designers,

  • Industries needing optimal design evaluations,

  • Civil engineers,

  • Factory builders,

  • Engineering offices,

  • Construction consulting companies,

  • And generally anyone needing industrial structure design and construction.

Similar Products:

Domestic: There are similar software products related to concrete and other structures, but currently, there is no software in Iran specialized in industrial shed design and optimization like Sooleh Pardaz.

International:

  1. SAP and Tekla: Tekla does not perform design but is used for drafting, with licenses costing 20,000 to 30,000 euros. Cracked versions cannot do design. SAP2000 is widely used for primary structure design but has limitations: SAP designs only the main structure, while foundations, connections, braces, and cranes must be designed manually.

Sooleh Pardaz integrates SAP automatically, modeling and loading the shed per Iran’s code 2800 and section six, and provides Tekla outputs.

  1. Microstran Limcon: Software for analyzing and checking lattice towers and steel members, offering 2D and 3D design and analysis. It supports various load types and can output CAD drawings. However, it does not design the main shed structure and uses outputs from other software.

  2. Space Gass: Designs steel structures, connections, bridges, tanks, stadiums, and buildings.

  3. Master Series (Lite Suite): Designs steel structures and connections with output files in Excel and Word.

These programs do not provide accurate estimates of materials and costs and are time-consuming with a high chance of errors, especially under new complex loading codes in Iran. Multiple valid designs can be created, but it is hard to judge the best in terms of minimal material use or plate waste.

Furthermore, these programs are not specialized for automatic multi-bay shed design, crane girders and beams, subsidiary bays, skylights, curved roofs, central columns, and mezzanine floors—manual design is complex and error-prone. Also, factors like snow loads, allowable soil stress, regional earthquake coefficients, wall thickness, roof type, construction city, pedestal height, earthquake settings, neighboring shed geometry, temperature conditions, allowable displacements, foundations, and footings are not considered in these software packages.

Given these limitations and the urgent need for a software to address them, this group developed Sooleh Pardaz, which designs all shed components with the highest quality and accuracy in less than one hour.

Competitive Advantages

The Soleh Pardaz software, by automatically providing all effective parameters in building a shed, enables optimal and standard design for the user.

Other Features:

  • Speed and accuracy in design

  • Capability to evaluate and comply with regionally approved codes

  • Capability for (relative) optimal design

  • Consulting capability with a professional design team via remote service

  • Complete and precise modeling of the shed in SAP2000, design by ASD and LRFD methods, loading based on the 6th chapter (2013 edition) and code 2800, and according to (A.I.S.C) and (M.B.M.A) standards

  • Automatic output of powerful TEKLA software in less than 5 minutes, designing sheds up to ten bays, modeling various sheds including sheds with curved roofs, single-slope, one-sided and two-sided lean-to sheds, middle columns, cranes, mezzanines, and more

  • Design of crane bridges (single and double bridges)

  • Design of crane carriers (pinned and continuous)

  • Foundation design

  • Soil stress control under all loading conditions

  • Punch shear control, adequacy of bending reinforcement, one-way shear, uplift, and foundation sliding control

  • b/t ratio control to prevent local buckling

  • Automatic design of end-to-end beam-to-beam and beam-to-column connections

  • Automatic modeling of crane carriers in SAP 2000

  • Precise and complete steel part weight tables

  • Estimation of steel consumption, rebar weight, concrete volume, and total project costs

  • Drawing execution plans including shop drawings of beams and columns

  • Lost Option mode to reduce sheet metal waste — a very important issue in shed design given the variety of sheet sizes available on the market; systematic design by Soleh Pardaz minimizes waste and capital loss

  • Complete and precise modeling and loading of sheds in SAP 2000 automatically within seconds

  • Control of stresses and displacements based on steel codes and Iranian load standards

  • Providing calculation books for all manual design steps

  • Automatic design of roof and wall bracing, wind columns, and lintel beams

  • Automatic design of column bases (pinned and fixed)

  • Design of bolts and fixed column bases under all loading conditions

  • Automatic design of shed sections

  • Selection of various sections for structural components like beams and columns

  • Geometry and design results transfer from SPS software to SAP software and automatic precise modeling and loading of the shed in SAP 2000 within seconds

  • Automatic calculation of design loads and load combinations within the structural geometry, without the need for separate manual calculations

Another benefit of this software is the precise economic estimation of the design, enabling the client to know beforehand the exact cost and quantities of steel, concrete, rebar, formwork, roof covering, masonry, and more. For example, it can quickly determine whether a single-span 30-meter shed or a two-span shed with 15-meter bays is more suitable — a process that would take days manually.

Software Outputs:

  • Word format calculation booklet

  • AutoCAD files

  • Tekla outputs

Capability to generate detailed reports and save results at the end of the process (with shed geometry details, client info, construction site)

Quantities, weights, and costs of concrete and steel with consumption details and final structural skeleton costs in AutoCAD files

Harim Sazeh Sepahan Design and Execution Team:

Alongside Soleh Pardaz software, the design and execution team at Harim Sazeh Sepahan Company, with over 9 years of experience in designing, executing, and consulting industrial structures and more than 11 years in steel and concrete structural design and execution, committed to quality management and engineering standards, actively participates in delivering products and services aimed at preserving national resources and continuously adding value to the engineering community.

Our commitment to customers is to provide the best advice in site planning, architectural design, optimized structural design, execution, and careful supervision.

Young engineers work alongside experienced professionals to meet all needs of manufacturers and industrialists in civil engineering.

Designing a shed is a specialized and precise task involving important factors; neglecting these may lead to excessive costs undermining economic feasibility or weakening structural strength and stability, causing irreparable accidents.

Harim Sazeh Sepahan’s Quality Control Unit rigorously inspects all design, manufacturing, and installation phases, reviewing all design files optimally and thoroughly monitoring welding, painting, and geometry with reports based on standards and valid codes.

Competitive Advantages of Harim Sazeh Sepahan Design Group:

This group, as the innovator of the Soleh Pardaz specialized software, offers unique capabilities in industrial structure design, including:

  • Providing the lightest design regarding steel and concrete consumption with minimum sheet waste

  • Delivering standard designs within 24 hours

  • Sending drawings, calculation booklets, and calculation files by email or post worldwide

  • Providing steel part lists, concrete volume, rebar weight, masonry volume, and financial cost estimation

  • Providing structural and foundation calculation files

  • Providing crane bridge and carrier drawings and shop drawings for beams and columns

  • Providing Tekla shop and cutting plans

  • Most accurate and safest design according to the latest Iranian national and international standards

  • Offering multiple design sets for a shed for the client to choose from

  • Providing lightweighting plans for previous designs

  • Reviewing and offering retrofit designs for executed sheds

A good structural designer’s main task is to lighten the structure and reduce the final project cost while complying with all national and international standards, relying heavily on knowledge and experience. Choices include material type and system: concrete or steel, shed or truss or space frame, conventional or curved shed, bay dimensions, heights, roof slopes, etc.

Harim Sazeh Sepahan Company, equipped with advanced heavy and light industrial machinery in a covered environment and using various steels, experienced workers, specialists, and engineers, has proven its capacity over past years to accept and execute various orders and is ready to actively participate in governmental and national projects.

Technical calculations and structural design in Harim Sazeh Sepahan are performed in the engineering unit using Soleh Pardaz software and according to (A.I.S.C) and (M.B.M.A) standards.

Note: All steel structure manufacturing stages, including:

  • Bolted steel skeleton fabrication and installation

  • Welded steel skeleton fabrication and installation

  • Industrial structure fabrication and installation

  • Various shed constructions

are conducted according to national building codes and regulations, supervised by the Quality Control Unit.