SPEC Toolbox has announced its rebranding from CLT Toolbox. The rebranding coincides with a major expansion of the platform’s free offering in Europe, unlocking the entire suite of calculators for engineers to use for free when designing with products from SPEC Toolbox’s supply chain partners.
This evolution is a key step forward for users and partners, broadening the scope of technical problems the platform is engineered to solve. The platform, which originally focused on cross laminated timber, has grown to include eight product categories, and the new brand reflects its expanded mission. With this change, SPEC Toolbox aims to be the best software in any product category it enters, empowering the industry to innovate.
“Our mission is simple: to make innovation easy to specify,” said Adam Jones, CEO of SPEC Toolbox. “Product manufacturers drive industry innovation and passionate engineers every day are seeking solutions for their projects that challenge the norm. By rebranding and providing free access to all our tools for our partners, we are giving designers the confidence to specify the materials of the future and putting incredible manufacturer solutions right into the hands of engineers.”
For engineers, the platform eliminates the need to build significant spreadsheets that can take hundreds of hours to rummage through disparate supply chain data found in PDFs. This new model removes the technical barriers to product specification, scaling engineering capacity for practices across Europe. This approach is resonating within the industry, with the platform boasting over 5,000 user signups globally and partnerships with 30 major product suppliers.
The platform’s success has been driven by its diverse and talented founding team, including CEO Adam Jones, who previously felt specification problems as a supplier at XLam and a specifier at WSP. SPEC Toolbox is a structural design platform developed by engineers, for engineers. Initially focused exclusively on mass timber, the platform has expanded to make innovation easy to specify across a growing number of building product categories. With a team experienced across five continents, SPEC Toolbox brings global code compliance and real-world constructability to the heart of modern design.
