Request to add Kosovo as an Official Country Option in Dlubal Software

Hello,

I hope you are doing well.
I am a civil/structural engineer from Kosovo and an active user of your software (RFEM, RSTAB and other Dlubal products). I truly appreciate the quality of your tools, and I rely on them daily in my work.

However, one issue has been causing significant difficulties: Kosovo is not available as a country option in many parts of your software ecosystem. This affects essential processes such as:

  • Selecting wind, snow, or seismic zones based on location

  • Project geolocation

  • Mapping functions

  • General country-related parameters

  • Other workflows that depend on geographic input

From both a technical and a professional standpoint, this limitation is frustrating and slows down my work considerably. At the same time, it is also discouraging to see my country missing from the list, especially now that more engineers in Kosovo have begun adopting your software and speaking positively about it.

For this reason, I kindly ask if you could consider adding Kosovo as an official country option in your applications. I am convinced this would help many users in my region and prevent engineers from having to look for alternative tools simply because this detail is missing.

Thank you very much for your understanding. I would appreciate any feedback or information regarding this matter.

Best regards,
Florind Shabani

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Hi Florind,

thanks a lot for your message and for the kind words about our software — really great to hear!

Regarding Kosovo: at the moment we only have access to the base Eurocode SK EN 1991-1-4:2005/A1:2010/AC:2016. The national annex, where the actual wind, snow or other climatic parameters would normally be defined, hasn’t been published for Kosovo. Because of that, we simply don’t have any official data we could integrate into the software.

What would actually help us a lot: do you happen to know of any alternative regulation, guideline, or commonly used reference in Kosovo that engineers rely on for these loads? If there’s something that’s used in practice, we’d be very interested to hear about it.

Thanks again for bringing this up!

Best regards
Andreas Niemeier

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