STAAD Foundation Advanced 2025 is the next generation software for modelling, analysis and design of foundation structures and their components. This generation of the product represents an enhanced user interface along with significant advancements in the analysis and design capabilities over its predecessor STAAD Foundation Advanced V9.  This eases the modeling process, improves visualization and output, allows greater control in the rebar design and detailing, and provides an overall, more productive experience for structural engineers.

STAAD Foundation Advanced 2025 currently supports the modeling, analysis, and design of mat and raft foundations (with or without piles), as well as isolated, combined, and pile-cap foundations. At present, the application does not support the design of plant or machine foundations, or other foundation types. Additionally, certain features available in version 9 are either temporarily unavailable or have been permanently deprecated.  Please click here for more details. This release offers the following functionalities:

1. Modeling Foundation Geometry

• Creation of a physical-based substructure model from scratch.
• Import data (support reactions, column sizes/positions) from STAAD.Pro models with change tracking.
• Import support reactions, column sizes and positions etc. from STAAD Foundation Advanced V9 models.
• Import of DXF drawing templates for creating complex mat foundation model geometries and converting them to physical objects.
• Multiple ways of creating one or more mats, isolated, combined or pile cap foundations beneath the columns and/or walls of imported STAAD.Pro model/models, or as standalone entities.
• Add pedestals beneath steel and concrete columns.
• Add thickened/sunken regions, openings, etc., to the mat foundation.
• Tools to modify, copy and/or replicate various types of foundations within the model.
• Facilities for annotating levels of foundation and superstructure.
• Creation and assignment of soil and/or piles to foundations.

2. Load Management

• Import / Creation of load cases.
• Create various types of loads on the various foundations using the program's facilities or using DXF drawing templates.
• Import from STAAD.Pro models or manually create/generate (code-based - ACI, ASCE, IS 456) load combinations.
• Automatic calculation of overburden soil loads on foundation structures along with or without the consideration of buoyant loads, as per user specification of soil and groundwater levels.
• Automatic conversion of column loads to equivalent plate pressure loads on finite element models.

3. Mesh Generation and Analysis

• Generation of finite element meshing from physical geometry for all types of available foundations.
• Automatic generation of compression-only soil springs for FE models.
• Both rigid and FE-based analysis can be performed for isolated, combined, and pile-cap foundations.
• Command file-based model generation, analysis run, and design operation.
• Analysis using the STAAD.Pro engine for FE-based foundation models.
• Parallel generation of FE meshing and analysis runs for multiple foundation objects.
• Parallel analysis runs for foundation objects with SLS or ULS properties.

4. Post-Processing and Analysis Results Visualization

• Display of FE analysis results such as node displacements, bending moments, shear stresses, soil pressures, etc. in graphical or tabular form.
• Display of soil pressures for rigid analysis of isolated and combined foundations.
• View results for section cuts through FE-analyzed foundation objects.
• Strip stress plots for bending moments and shear forces for mat foundations.
• Post-analysis and stability checks such as soil pressures, sliding, overturning, loss of contact, settlements, pile capacities are available for all applicable foundation types in the program.
• Automatic determination of optimum isolated and combined footing dimensions with convergence tracking.
• Automatic determination of pile configuration and pile cap type with convergence tracking.
• Strip stresses plots of bending moments and shear forces at design station points for each design strip generated for FE analysis for all foundation types.

5. Design and Detailing

• Flexure design for mats analyzed in and imported from STAAD.Pro along with FE results like base pressures, plate stresses, moments, node displacements, contours.
• Flexure design for all available foundations as per ACI 318 (2014 & 2019) and IS 456:2000 codes.
• Consideration of both singly and doubly reinforced section during flexure design.
• Display of flexure design results include reinforcement provided, moment capacities and detailed bar layout based on cut-off lengths and calculated development lengths.
• Custom bar arrangements for top/bottom mat surfaces or regions.
• Punching shear and one-way shear calculations to ACI 318 (2014 & 2019) and IS 456 2000 codes for all available foundations with visual aids and detailed reports.
• Pedestal design for all foundation types per ACI 318 (2014 & 2019) and IS codes with visual aids.
• Pile punching checks for pile cap and mat foundations.
• Reinforcement rationalization tools for mat foundations to minimize the number of separate bar arrangements calculated during design.

6. Optimization and Estimation

• Facility to create multiple design options and compare results.
• BOQ calculations and comparison across design options.
• Estimated project cost based on BOQs and user-defined rates.

7. Report and Drawing Generation

• Extensive report generation: geometry, loads, post analysis checks, design details, BOQs.
• Drawing generation: general arrangement, reinforcement layout plans and sections.

8. Integration and Interoperability

• Import data (support reactions, column sizes/positions) from STAAD.Pro models with change tracking.
• Import support reactions, column sizes and positions etc. from STAAD Foundation Advanced V9 models.
• Import mat foundations modeled and analyzed in STAAD.Pro.

9. User Interface and Extensibility

• Project explorer tree for easy navigation.
• Programmable APIs for user-created tools.

A series of videos are available to teach the basics of this application and can be accessed here. Please direct any questions or input you have on this release to Ideas.