Key Features & Easy Block Integration:

• Com­plete Block Cat­a­log The of­fi­cial Easy Block cat­a­log, in­clud­ing all block types and di­men­sions, is ful­ly in­te­grat­ed di­rect­ly into the soft­ware. Users do not need to in­put any man­u­al di­men­sions.
• Sim­ple 3D Mod­el­ing The pro­gram allows users to eas­i­ly and in­tu­i­tive­ly de­sign the en­tire 3D wall struc­ture.
• Com­pre­hen­sive Cross-Section Anal­y­sis En­gi­neers can an­a­lyze in­di­vid­u­al cross-sec­tions for stan­dard ver­i­fi­ca­tions, in­clud­ing over­turn­ing, slip, and the ver­i­fi­ca­tion of shear joints be­tween in­di­vid­u­al blocks.
• De­sign Flex­i­bil­i­ty The soft­ware sup­ports both stan­dard grav­i­ty walls and me­chan­i­cal­ly sta­bi­lized earth walls. A com­pre­hen­sive cat­a­log of var­i­ous geo­syn­thet­ic re­in­force­ment types is built right into the pro­gram.
• Glob­al Stan­dards All de­signs and ver­i­fi­ca­tions can be per­formed ac­cord­ing to ma­jor glob­al codes and de­sign ap­proach­es, in­clud­ing Eurocode EN 1997, Amer­i­can LRFD, Swiss SIA 267, or stan­dard Safe­ty Fac­tors / Lim­it States.

Con­nect­ed GEO5 Mod­ules

• Slope Sta­bil­i­ty To an­a­lyze the over­all sta­bil­i­ty of the slope and wall, all ge­om­e­try and soil data can be trans­ferred au­to­mat­i­cal­ly with a sin­gle click into the GEO5 Slope Stability mod­ule.
• Spread Foot­ing In the ex­act same way, the bear­ing ca­pac­i­ty of the foun­da­tion soil be­neath the wall can be ver­i­fied by au­to­mat­i­cal­ly ex­port­ing forces and ge­om­e­try into the GEO5 Spread Footing mod­ule.
• Draw­ing Ed­i­tor For pre­par­ing pro­fes­sion­al project doc­u­men­ta­tion, draw­ings from GEO5 Prefab Wall and other GEO5 pro­grams can be cre­at­ed and ed­it­ed in GEO5 Drawing Editor. Ev­ery­thing is kept in one place, with­out switch­ing be­tween dif­fer­ent tools, sav­ing time when pre­par­ing draw­ings and re­ports while main­tain­ing a con­sis­tent and pro­fes­sion­al ap­pear­ance across all GEO5 out­puts.

This end-to-end data integration enables efficient and code-compliant design of Easy Block retaining walls within the GEO5 software environment.

Key Features & Easy Block Integration:

• Plan­ning with­out lim­i­ta­tions
  While the Easyblock Online Configurator is de­signed for stan­dard struc­tur­al de­sign ap­pli­ca­tions and stan­dard­ized wall con­fig­u­ra­tions, SketchUp en­ables the free plan­ning of com­plex and project-specific so­lu­tions. Spe­cial ge­om­e­tries, multi-level re­tain­ing wall sys­tems, mul­ti­ple in­ter­con­nect­ed walls and cus­tom an­gles can be de­vel­oped and vi­su­al­ized di­rect­ly within the mod­el. Plan­ning is car­ried out in­de­pend­ent­ly of pre­de­fined con­fig­u­ra­tions and pro­vides max­i­mum flex­i­bil­i­ty for the de­vel­op­ment of in­di­vid­u­al projects.
  
  
• In­te­gra­tion into ex­ist­ing projects
  Ex­ist­ing site plans, lay­outs and project data can be in­cor­po­rat­ed di­rect­ly into the plan­ning pro­cess. This allows Easyblock re­tain­ing walls to be in­te­grat­ed into ex­ist­ing de­signs, ap­prov­al doc­u­ments and project con­cepts. As a re­sult, re­al­is­tic project vi­su­al­i­za­tions can be cre­at­ed at an ear­ly stage of the plan­ning pro­cess..
  
  
• 3D mod­el­ling and vi­su­al­i­za­tion
  SketchUp en­ables Easyblock re­tain­ing walls to be mod­elled in three di­men­sions and viewed from dif­fer­ent per­spec­tives. In ad­di­tion to tech­ni­cal plan­ning, the soft­ware is well suit­ed for cre­at­ing pre­sen­ta­tions, vi­su­al­i­za­tions and project doc­u­men­ta­tion for cli­ents, plan­ners and project stake­hold­ers.
  
  
• Ma­te­ri­al quan­ti­fi­ca­tion
  In ad­di­tion to graph­i­cal plan­ning, the Easyblock com­po­nents used within the mod­el can be eval­u­at­ed and used for fur­ther project de­vel­op­ment. This pro­vides a re­li­able ba­sis for ma­te­ri­al quan­ti­fi­ca­tion, cost es­ti­ma­tion and project prep­a­ra­tion.

Ap­pli­ca­tions

SketchUp is par­tic­u­lar­ly suit­able for:

• Com­plex wall ge­om­e­tries
• Multi-level re­tain­ing wall sys­tems
• Project-specific so­lu­tions be­yond the stan­dard struc­tur­al de­sign doc­u­men­ta­tion
• Cus­tom an­gles and tran­si­tions
• Project vi­su­al­i­za­tions
• Con­cept and de­sign stud­ies
• In­te­gra­tion into ex­ist­ing plan­ning doc­u­ments

Key fea­tures

• Free three-di­men­sion­al plan­ning
• Easyblock DWG li­brary
• In­te­gra­tion of ex­ist­ing project doc­u­men­ta­tion
• Vi­su­al­i­za­tion of com­plex wall ge­om­e­tries
• Rep­re­sen­ta­tion of project-specific so­lu­tions
• Sup­port for con­cept and project de­vel­op­ment
• Ma­te­ri­al quan­ti­fi­ca­tion ca­pa­bil­i­ties
• Ex­port op­tions for pre­sen­ta­tions and doc­u­men­ta­tion

Key Features:

• Block struc­ture The wall struc­ture is de­fined based on the re­quired wall di­men­sions.
• Sim­ple 2D mod­el­ing The pro­gram en­ables sim­ple and in­tu­i­tive plan­ning of the en­tire 2D wall struc­ture.
• Cross-section anal­y­sis Based on the en­tered wall pa­ram­e­ters, in­di­vid­u­al cross-sec­tions for stan­dard wall types are cal­cu­lat­ed for each wall sec­tion. These cal­cu­la­tions are based on the ta­bles in the tech­ni­cal man­u­al.
• Flex­i­ble de­sign The soft­ware sup­ports both tra­di­tion­al grav­i­ty walls and re­in­forced earth struc­tures with geogrids. Cor­ners and curves can also be tak­en into ac­count.
• In­ter­na­tion­al stan­dards De­sign and ver­i­fi­ca­tion are per­formed in ac­cor­dance with the ap­pli­ca­ble Eurocode re­quire­ments, in par­tic­u­lar EN 1997 and Eurocode 7.

Note:

Re­tain­ing walls should al­ways be de­signed by a qual­i­fied pro­fes­sion­al de­sign­er or struc­tur­al en­gi­neer. The con­fig­u­ra­tor gen­er­ates a pre­lim­i­nar­y wall de­sign based on de­fined stan­dard pa­ram­e­ters.

For pro­fes­sion­al en­gi­neer­ing cal­cu­la­tions, we rec­om­mend the GEO5 soft­ware from Fine. This seam­less data in­te­gra­tion en­ables ef­fi­cient and code-com­pli­ant de­sign of Easy Block re­tain­ing walls within the GEO5 soft­ware en­vi­ron­ment.