Naue Platform Pro

At a glance

What it is: a free, professional online tool in the Naue Portal DesignSuite (login required)
What it does: designs working platforms for tracked plant across multiple platforms and subsoils, with ULS/SLS checks and a reinforced-versus-unreinforced comparison
Best for: larger or multi-platform projects - crawler cranes, piling and drilling rigs on weak or variable ground
Key inputs: two load cases (width, length, load) and track spacing; layered subgrade (design shear strength, elasticity modulus, Poisson's ratio); platform material (type, friction angle, elasticity modulus, unit weight); geogrid types and layers
Key outputs: required platform thickness with and without reinforcement, governing failure mode, number of reinforcement layers, estimated immediate settlement and inclination, required tensile strength, geogrid types; quantity and total geogrid price; full report
Pro extras: multiple platforms and subsoils automated; multiple failure modes; effort, cost (€) and environmental-impact evaluation; comprehensive report

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From complex temporary works to a documented design: how Platform Pro delivers

Challenges

Projects with many platforms, rigs and varying ground conditions
Demonstrating safety across multiple failure modes (ULS & SLS)
Comparing cost, effort and environmental impact of the options

Naue solution

A professional platform tool that automates multi-platform, multi-subsoil design with ULS/SLS checks, a reinforced-vs-unreinforced comparison and cost and environmental evaluation

Results

Verified platform designs for every platform and rig
A clear reinforced-vs-unreinforced comparison with settlement and tilting
Quantities, costs and environmental figures - in one documented report

Where Platform Pro helps: applications covered

Naue Platform Pro is used on larger temporary-works projects where several working platforms, rigs and ground conditions must be designed, compared and documented together - and where cost and environmental figures matter.

Multi-platform projects: several platforms and subsoils designed automatically in one project
Crawler crane & rig pads: platforms for crawler cranes, piling and drilling rigs
Wind & energy construction: crane and rig platforms for large renewable-energy sites
Variable / layered subsoils: layered subgrade with design strength and stiffness per layer
Cost & quantity estimation: material quantities and total geogrid price for budgeting and tenders

How Platform Pro works: model, verify, evaluate and report

Platform Pro is organised as a professional, tabbed workflow - from main and input data through ULS and SLS design to data evaluation, result summary, an input sketch and a full report.

Naue Platform Pro software start screen showing a 3D model of a working platform with cranes and wind turbine components, plus navigation tabs and Naue branding

Platform Pro: method, standards and engineering support

Method / Check	Scope
Working-platform design (ULS & SLS)	Tracked-plant loading on a granular platform over layered subsoil, across multiple platforms
Multiple failure modes (ULS)	Bearing resistance and further ultimate-limit-state checks; required thickness and tensile strength
Serviceability (SLS)	Estimated immediate settlement and inclination (tilting)
Geosynthetic reinforcement	Secugrid^® and Combigrid reduce platform thickness; md/cmd tensile strength and layer build-up

The Platform Pro advantage: design, compare and cost in one place

Naue Platform Pro turns complex temporary-works platform design into a single, documented workflow. Engineers verify multiple platforms and rigs to ULS and SLS, compare reinforced and unreinforced build-ups, and see the settlement, tilting, quantities, cost and environmental impact side by side. By adding the reinforcement effect of Secugrid^® and Combigrid^®, it cuts platform thickness, aggregate, cost and CO₂ - while a full report keeps everything auditable, backed by Naue's Engineering and Design Department (EDD).

Naue Platform Pro is a free, professional tool in the Naue Portal DesignSuite that designs working platforms for tracked plant across multiple platforms and subsoil conditions, verifying ULS and SLS, comparing reinforced and unreinforced build-ups and evaluating effort, cost and environmental impact.

Platform 2.0 designs a single working platform to ULS and SLS. Platform Pro adds automated calculation of multiple platforms and subsoils, multiple failure modes, a reinforced-vs-unreinforced comparison, effort/cost/environmental-impact evaluation with quantity and price estimation, and a comprehensive report.

It covers the ultimate limit state (ULS) with multiple failure modes, including the bearing resistance of the platform material and the required thickness and tensile strength, and the serviceability limit state (SLS) with estimated immediate settlement and inclination.

Two load cases (width, length and load) and track spacing, a layered subgrade (design shear strength, average elasticity modulus and Poisson's ratio), the platform material (type, friction angle, minimum elasticity modulus and unit weight), and the Secugrid^®/Combigrid^® geogrid types and layers.

Yes. For each platform it reports the layout with and without reinforcement - thickness, governing failure mode, number of reinforcement layers, estimated immediate settlement and inclination, and the geogrid types - so the benefit of reinforcement is explicit.

Yes. The data evaluation compares options by effort, cost and environmental impact, and provides a quantity estimation and the total geogrid products price in Euro, alongside unreinforced and reinforced totals.

A full report with the design, verifications and evaluations, plus a sketch of the input parameters - ready for documentation, procurement and approval.

Platform Pro is free within the Naue Portal and requires a portal login. It is aimed at temporary-works and design engineers, contractors and project owners handling larger or multi-platform schemes.

Naue Platform Pro | Working Platform Design & Cost Software | Naue

Advanced working platform design for tracked plant