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The UK's leading traffic sign design system

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The UK's leading package for post and foundation design

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Traffic sign design with Buchanan Computing

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Implements structural and passive safety standards
SignLoad

With the need for CE or UKCA marking of traffic signs, passive safety considerations and many new products becoming available, it has become increasingly complicated for traffic sign designers to specify safe, but economical, post sizes and foundations.

SignLoad Professional greatly simplifies the process and produces a more economical design than any other software.

BENEFITS

Sign stiffening for any substrates

Implements the wind actions Eurocode to produce a more economical design than using EN 12899 alone
Ensures compliance with both EN 12899-1 and EN 12767 for any part of UK or Ireland
Approved by BSI for CE or UKCA marking sign faces or complete structures
Identifies the most economical design, or checks your choice
Simple to use, quick and accurate
Includes economical ‘planted’ foundations

FEATURES

Structural details and drawing printed for each sign

Designs steel and passively-safe sign supports, including asymmetrical arrangements
Designs sign face stiffening (channel section spacing) for all major suppliers and substrates, including composites and GRP
Checks for Passive Safety compliance to BS EN 12767:2019
Covers the full range of sign sizes, and types of post
Generates sign schedules in Excel or LibreOffice Calc
Designs spread, planted or screw pile foundations
Gives foundation reinforcement requirement
Uses accurate wind data for any county in the UK or Ireland

NEW IN RECENT VERSIONS

Multi-page PDF output
Covers the 2021 IHE Sign Structures Guide
Options for CD 354 and CG 300 compliance for trunk roads
Multiple separate signs on a single structure
Option to enter sign weight for VMS and other equipment
Aluminum sections and many other new supports
Update over the Internet
Ensure a specified % spare capacity
More printout options

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SIGNLOAD – FEATURES IN DETAIL

Sign support design

SignLoad is a stand-alone version of the traffic sign structural calculation module from SignPlot – the UK’s most widely used system for traffic sign design.

It is very easy to use – just enter the sign dimensions, its mounting height and click the Suggest section button. Then click the Print button if you are happy with the result.

If the supports are not symmetrically placed, click the Arrangement button, and just drag the supports where you want them.

Built-in calculations

The program checks for design load and temporary deflection (bending, torsion and their combined effect). It considers both wind load and a point load in accordance with the current recommendations for implementing EN 12899-1 in the UK and Ireland. It offers the options of selecting a wind loading class, entering a pressure or deriving more accurate data for the locality concerned from BS EN 1991-1-4.

Using the EN 1991 method (very time consuming to do manually) generally results in a much lower pressure, and therefore a more economical and safer design, than using EN 12899 alone.

SignLoad Designer

The free Designer version of SignLoad (download here) includes:

Wind load determination using BS EN 12899 National Annex
Sign support design using circular and rectangular steel sections.
Asymmetrical support positions
Muliple separate plates
Signs on slopes
Detailed printout or PDF with dimensioned drawing
Passive safety check

SignLoad Professional

The Professional version (from our on-line shop) adds the following features:

Accurate wind data from EN 1991 to give a more economical design
Support design for aluminium, Lattix, Optimast, Signstr8, Jerol, FSP, or HiMAST passively-safe sections, wide base posts or U-beams
Foundation design made simple for spread, planted or FLI screw pile foundations
Foundation reinforcement check for the grade of concrete specified
NAL retention sockets option
Create a sign schedule in Excel or LibreOffice Calc
Channel spacing using sections supplied by SignPost Solutions, Rennicks, Blackburns, ASD or Metalfin, and aluminium, steel, GRP and composite sign substrates
Signs made in vertical modules
Configure printout and change the choice of sections and products
Option to include snow loading and sign weight in the calculations
Approved by BSI for CE or UKCA marking