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Transcend Design Generator

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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Who We Work With

More than 418M 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.

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Quality outputs

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

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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

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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

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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

Quality documents icon 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 icon 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 icon 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.

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Work flow

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).

1

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.

2

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.

3

Creating quality documentation

TDG combs through global databases to select and size each piece of equipment for the facility.

4

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.

1

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.

2

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.

3

Creating quality documentation

TDG combs through global databases to select and size each piece of equipment for the facility.

4

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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Transcend believes each team member brings a unique viewpoint on what we do and how we do it. Read about Transcend through the eyes of some of our amazing colleagues by clicking the links below.

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Clients

Technology Providers & OEMs Technology Providers & OEMs

TDG rapidly generates accurate budgetary proposals to help suppliers bid more, win more, and sell more.

Asset Owners and Utilities Asset Owners and Utilities

TDG streamlines the capital planning and conceptual design processes to accelerate project timelines and deliver better outcomes.

EPCs, AECs, and Consultants EPCs, AECs, and Consultants

TDG enables engineering firms to deliver more value to their clients & increase competitiveness.

Individuals Individuals

TDG works for individual engineers who want to grow their business and reduce their non-billable time.

Academic Academic

Transcend supports students and professors around the world to incorporate TDG into their curriculum.

Resources

Articles Articles

Read posts written by Transcend team members sharing their points of view on the company mission, vision, and products.

Webinars Webinars

Register for our upcoming webinars or watch on-demand webinars like Transcend’s popular ‘How To’ Series.

Case studies Case studies

Understand how Transcend’s customers are utilizing TDG to bring more value to their customers and grow their businesses.

FAQ FAQ

View a list of the questions we are most frequently asked about our company and our software

Transcend tools Transcend tools

Access a number of tools Transcend has developed to help engineers and industry professionals take back their time.

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Industries

Water and Wastewater Water and Wastewater

TDG creates unique, optimized designs of water & wastewater treatment facilities by automatically combining decisions and calculations from each engineering field.

Power Power

TDG creates unique, optimized designs of T&D assets by automatically combining decisions and calculations from each engineering discipline.

Solutions

WWTP Design WWTP Design

TDG generates optimized, unique designs for water and wastewater treatment facilities by automating decisions and calculations across engineering fields.

Substation Design Substation Design

TDG generates optimized, unique designs for T&D assets by automating decisions and calculations across engineering disciplines.

Utility Interconnection Hub Utility Interconnection Hub

For transmission providers and power utilities, simplify the interconnection process by integrating TDG into your website to ensure developers submit fully compliant collector substation designs from the start.

White Label Proposal Generator White Label Proposal Generator

Generate qualified leads, elevate your customer experience, and simplify your engineering and channel partner workflows in an intuitive, user-friendly interface integrated into your website.

PFAS Feasibility Study PFAS Feasibility Study

For drinking water utilities, automatically generate accurate CAPEX and OPEX estimates to calculate the cost of upgrading your facility to meet stringent PFAS regulations

Booster Station Design Booster Station Design

Automates and simplify the complex process of designing booster pumping stations

Value Discovery Program Value Discovery Program

For engineering consultants, explore and implement generative design with expert guidance, structured onboarding, and full access to TDG to identify high-value use cases and drive efficiency.