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CADS

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About

CADS: Engineering software, Bim services, Poole. An active limited company, incorporated in 1974.

CADS is an international software company specialising in civil, geotechnical and structural engineering design, analysis and detailing software, headquartered at Arrowsmith Court in Broadstone, Dorset, and celebrating 50 years in business. Its applications are used by more than 6,000 customers worldwide, from consulting engineers and contractors to steelwork and rebar fabricators and scaffolders, and it helped develop British Standards on concrete detailing. CADS employs over 500 staff globally and is a major outsourcing provider of reinforcement detailing and BIM modelling services.

What they offer

  • Reinforced concrete detailing software (CADS RC3D for Revit)
  • Finite element analysis software
  • Steel and concrete design software
  • Scaffold calculation software
  • Detailing and BIM modelling services
  • Calculation templates
  • Training and webinars

Company details

Registered name
COMPUTER AND DESIGN SERVICES LIMITED
Incorporated
1974 (52 years on the register)
Company status
Active
Company type
Private limited company
Company number
01161218 (Companies House, opens in a new tab)
Registered office
Arrowsmith Court, 10 Station Approach, Broadstone
Nature of business
62012 Business and domestic software development
Size
Large organisation (250 or more staff)

Source: Companies House public register.

Areas covered

Works across the UK. View on OpenStreetMap (opens in a new tab)

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