The future of critical infrastructure design
The Transcend Design Generator (TDG) enables utilities, engineers, and manufacturers to:
- Design sustainable infrastructure by breaking free from traditional workflows.
- Reduce risk by maximizing your design options during conceptual design.
- Accelerate project timelines by turning ideas into actionable outcomes.
- Deliver accurate engineering documentation to future-proof your assets.
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Who We Work With
Transcend Design Generator (TDG) is used by the world’s leading asset owners, equipment suppliers, and engineering firms to streamline capital planning and budgeting processes.
Asset Owners & Utilities
Asset Owners & Utilities
TDG helps asset owners and utilities evaluate more options in their capital planning and conceptual design processes – accelerating capital projects and reducing project risk.
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Technology Providers & OEMs
Technology Providers & OEMs
TDG automates engineering and documentation workflows to deliver high quality, detailed, budgetary proposals and other project documents.
Transcend also offers options for sponsored content and lead generation. Sign up for free to become a Transcend-Approved OEM today!
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EPCs, AECs, and Consultants
EPCs, AECs, and Consultants
TDG empowers you to bring more value to your clients by enabling you to evaluate more options and scenarios, all with significantly more detail, during capital planning and preliminary design.
By reducing resources spent and letting software do the monotonous aspects of design, engineers can focus on more innovative and value-added work.
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Individuals
Individuals
TDG works for individual engineers who want to grow their business and reduce their non-billable time.
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Academic & Continuing Ed.
Academic & Continuing Ed.
We support student and academic access to the tool. Find out more.
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More than 423M people in over 70 countries have been impacted by Transcend designs
Let’s design better infrastructure – start your journey today or book a demo through the links on the right.
Outputs generated by TDG
You’ll be able to create preliminary designs in 90% less time, delivering more value to your clients and reducing project risk.
Quality documents
Quality documents TDG utilizes industry-leading engineering design practices and calculations to deliver high quality, engineered documents like Preliminary Engineering Reports, Design Basis, Technical Description, and many more.
Equipment BOQ/BOM
Equipment BOQ/BOM TDG also generates a preliminary mechanical design, including a PFD, Equipment BOQ/BOM, Load List, and IO List. Everything needed for cost estimation at your fingertips.
3D BIM models
3D BIM models TDG generates a project-specific 3D BIM model that is used to create a Civil BOQ/BOM and other important civil documents, including a site layout.
Quality documents
TDG utilizes industry-leading engineering design practices and calculations to deliver high quality, engineered documents like Preliminary Engineering Reports, Design Basis, Technical Description, and many more.
Equipment BOQ/BOM
TDG also generates a preliminary mechanical design, including a PFD, Equipment BOQ/BOM, Load List, and IO List. Everything needed for cost estimation at your fingertips.
3D BIM models
TDG generates a project-specific 3D BIM model that is used to create a Civil BOQ/BOM and other important civil documents, including a site layout.
How TDG Works
TDG creates unique, optimized designs for your critical infrastructure project by automatically combining decisions and calculations from multiple engineering disciplines (process, mechanical, electrical, & civil).
Design generator input and validation
TDG leverages proprietary databases and validation algorithms to check that inputs are valid and a design can be properly generated.
Cloud processing and engineering expertise
TDG incorporates hundreds of thousands of decision algorithms developed by experienced engineers, and combines them with both steady-state and dynamic simulations to optimize and validate designs.
Creating quality documentation
TDG combs through global databases to select and size each piece of equipment for the facility.
5+ Design options for the client
TDG constructs a 3D Building Information Model (BIM) which can be used as a basis for costing projects, in addition to carrying through to detailed design.
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