
Tekla for students, educators, and academic institutions
Access Tekla’s award-winning structural engineering, design and construction software: free for students and educators and low-cost for accredited institutions.

Students
Access Tekla’s suite of academic solutions, develop your design and engineering skill set and kickstart your professional career.
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Educators
Access Tekla’s suite of academic solutions and teach design and engineering more effectively than ever.
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Tekla software and Trimble Connect for academic users

Tekla Structures
Structural design engineers, detailers, fabricators, contractors and project managers can create, combine, manage and share accurate models for every project. Work with any material, boost collaboration, enhance decision making and consistently deliver exceptional results.
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Tekla Structural Designer
Engineers can seamlessly combine design and analysis with just one robust, user-friendly single-model-based process. Build beyond limits, work with any material and deliver safe, effective and rationalized design faster than ever before.
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Tekla Tedds
Automate civil and structural calculations for speed, accuracy and peak performance, allowing you to hold projects in the palm of your hand. This powerful and easy-to-use analysis software gives you flexibility and freedom for your projects.
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Trimble Connect
Seamless collaboration is the key to a successful project. Everyone involved in your project can handle truly constructible data with Trimble Connect. Experience more with informed decision-making and keep your team members updated with the correct information.
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Tekla for education news

Tekla North American Student BIM Awards Winners
Trimble has announced the winners of the 2021 Tekla North American BIM Awards, a competition showcasing the world’s most impressive structural construction projects modeled with Tekla software.
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Modern and Traditional Live in Harmony in an Indonesian Student Project
A student team from the Lambung Mangkurat University (ULM) in Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, Indonesia, won the 2020 Tekla Global BIM Awards student category with the Kalimantan New Mosque project.
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Trimble and WSU Establish Trimble Technology Lab
Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) and Washington State University (WSU) have established a state-of-the-art Technology Lab in WSU's Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture. The lab serves the School of Design and Construction and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
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