Fatlum Troshani, project engineer at BHI, uses structural engineering software to design buildings

This past month, Build Health International’s Structural Engineering team received two in-kind software donations from Computers and Structures Inc. (CSI) and StructurePoint. The software is used in every project these engineers work on to design infrastructure needs, from columns, beams, and reinforcements to analyzing whole buildings and complex structures. 

Project engineer Fatlum Troshani, who has been a main advocate and implementer of these important contributions, remarks that this software is a “technical tool BHI relies on” to design sustainable health infrastructure across the globe. 

Since 2016, Computers and Structures Inc. (CSI) has been generously donating its software licenses to all of BHI’s structural engineers. CSI tools allow them to design complex structures with the capacity to analyze whole buildings at a time. 

Similarly, in 2017, as BHI continued to grow its team and adapt to new international contexts, StructurePoint began donating in-kind software licenses and has continued over the last eight years. StructurePoint software is especially helpful for designing individual elements of buildings such as beams and footing. 

Used in tandem, CSI and StructurePoint software are critical tools that are regularly utilized by the BHI team. Whether it is designing the Maternal Center of Excellence (MCOE) in Sierra Leone or the African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID) in Nigeria, it is because of such generous in-kind donations that allow BHI to build the foundation for global health equity.