ConXtech

Global Petroleum Show 2012

Admin — Wed, 02 May 2012 00:07:36 +0000

ConXtech will be exhibiting at the Global Petroleum Show (GPS) in booth #3002.

DATE & TIME:

June 12 – 14, 2012

Tuesday, June 12 – 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
Wednesday, June 13 – 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
Thursday, June 14 – 10:00 am to 5:00 pm

WHERE:

Stampede Park

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Stop by our booth in the outdoor area where you will

Learn what makes ConX, our structural steel framing system, ideal for pipe rack and processing facilities for the Petrochemical Industry
Hear more about AISC codification of ConXL moment frame connection and how the system meets even the most demanding seismic and code requirements
Learn how ConXtech utilizes BIM technology from the earliest concept stage all the way through project delivery, and how the system can save you time, money and significantly accelerate the delivery of your project

VIDEO: Check out the story of a ConX Modular Industrial Pipe Rack covering detailing, shop fabrication, virtual construction and finally footage of installation in the field.

Questions? Email us at: info@ConXtech.com

Download Floor plan

NASCC 2012

Admin — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:55:57 +0000

ConX – Not Just a Connection – An Integrated System

ConXtech will be exhibiting at this year’s North American Steel Construction Conference (2012 NASCC). Come visit us at booth #300, where you will:

Learn more about AISC codification of ConXL SMF connection and what benefits it can bring to your construction projects
See what new tools we have developed to make it easier for you to design your next project with the ConX System
Learn about how to become a ConX Certified Fabricator and what it can mean to your business

Visit 2012 NASCC Website Download Floor plan

Test Drive the ConX Digital Chassis

At the booth, you will have a chance to take our digital structural chassis for a test drive and see for yourself how easy it is to build a ConX Digital Chassis in a matter of minutes.

To learn more about the ConX Digital Chassis, watch this series of short training videos.

Get hands-on with ConXR

We will have a life size structure of the frame you see below. Come and see for yourself how fast and easy it is to put together and disassemble the structure. Watch a video of the demo stand being put together.

Download model and drawings
ConX structures are designed and detailed in a variety of different BIM applications. Below are a few of the different 3D model formats and a set of drawings of this structure that you can download and review.

BGG-W12X19 Gravity Beam
BMM-W12X30 Moment Beam
BGM-W12X19 Gravity/Moment Beam
BMC-W12X19 Beam Moment Cantilever
HSS4X4X1/4 Gravity Column
HSS8X8X3/8 Moment Column
CXO-A ConXR Outer Collar shop attached to W12X19
CXO-B ConXR Outer Collar shop attached to W12X30
CXO-C ConXR Outer Collar “Dead End” shipped with Column

Column Orientation Hole always on South Face
Beam Orientation Hole on South or West end of beam
Gravity Connection Shop Fixture Hole
ConXR Inner Collar Shop Fixture Hole
RBS – Reduced Beam Section cut in high seismic regions
6” Web Penetration for MEP
3” Web Penetration for Sprinkler and Electrical
CXG-A L2”1/2X1”1/2X3/16” Gravity Connection Clip
BW-A Bent PL3/16” Gravity Connection Clip

Autodesk Revit Google SketchUp AutoCAD IFC format 3D PDF Drawings Autodesk Navisworks Tekla BIMsight Tekla Structures CSI’s ETABS

C-BIP Toronto: Where do supply chains emerge?

Admin — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 22:15:36 +0000

ConXtech’s CEO Robert Simmons takes part in panel discussion 2: Assemblies + Systems

DATE & TIME:

Thursday, March 8, 2012 1:00pm

WHERE:

The Power Plant

231 Queens Quay West, Toronto, Canada

The seventh in a series of Columbia Building Intelligence Project (C-BIP) think tanks sponsored by Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope (TM) and chaired by Phillip Anazalone, GSAPP.

PHOTO GALLERY

Image Courtesy of GSAPP

ConXtech’s Innovative Connections Used at Stanford Law School

Admin — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:34:49 +0000

Degenkolb Engineers Honored with American Council of Engineering Award

Team Delivered “Space Faster and Cheaper, Producing Vision for Intellectual Openness.”

On February 7, 2012, Degenkolb Engineers’ structural team was presented the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) Engineering Excellence Honor Award for Stanford University’s new William H. Neukom Law Building. Completed in May, 2011, the building is a $40 million, 65,000 square-foot, 3-story academic and office facility. Degenkolb Engineers used ConXtech’s ConXL Chassis Based Modular^® steel framing system for the project.

The ConXL System was selected for its structural robustness and overall efficiency. “The building is efficient, smart, flexible, welcoming and was value-engineered to reduce overall environmental impact” notes Holly Razanno, SE, and a Principal at Degenkolb. “By using this trailblazing application, Degenkolb reduced the need for expensive and time-consuming field welding, providing an energy-efficient solution, significantly lowering associated costs, and reducing the need for labor in the field.”

“This was the first application of ConXtech’s technology in a university environment in the United States, and we were honored to have Stanford be the first” states Kelly Luttrell, ConXtech’s, Co-Founder and VP Business Development.

For years, ConXtech has worked closely with Stanford, hosting students and professors from the University’s Engineering, Architectural Design and Construction Management departments, at ConXtech’s R&D and Manufacturing facility in Hayward. Luttrell continues “In addition to working with entire classes at Stanford, we have participated on many levels with Stanford’s Center for Integrated Facilities Management (CIFE), and their pioneering team. It was particularly meaningful to work with a highly regarded firm such as Degenkolb, in bringing our building technology to a University at the forefront of innovation.”

The project, designed by Ennead Architects, satisfies the equivalent of a LEED® Gold Certification by meeting key sustainability requirements in the areas of site planning, water management, energy use, materials, resources, waste, indoor environmental quality, innovation and design. Advanced BIM modeling was used to create a direct manufacturing interface to ConXtech’s highly automated factory, which significantly streamlined design, fabrication and delivery.

Kaiser Permanente, San Marcos

Jay — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:51:05 +0000

ConXL Complete
Location:	San Marcos, CA
Total sf:	71,794
Owner:	Kaiser Permanente
GC:	Swinerton Builders
Engineer:	Hope Engineering
Architect:	HMC Architects

PROJECT NARRATIVE

Kaiser Permanente is expanding the existing medical office building facility in San Marcos, California adding an additional 71,794 square foot 3-story facility directly adjacent to the current building. The building has a contemporary design with curtain wall and glass exterior and an significant exposed steel awning. The structure including trellis were erected in just 12 days, with the remaining decking, misc. metals and concrete fill completed over the subsequent 13 days.

PROJECT CHALLENGES / SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS

The structure was erected directly adjacent to the operating medical office facility.

PHOTO GALLERY

Download Project Sheet

Creating the Digital Chassis

Jay — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:30:18 +0000

This video demonstrates how easy it is to quickly generate the ConX Digital Chassis (ConXtech’s Structural Steel frame) within a virtual environment for design, visualization, and manufacturing.

The ConX Digital Chassis is rapidly created and analyzed early on in the project, allowing the architect to define the body/shell around the structural chassis, and other trades to fit to the chassis with standard modular connections.

The modeling environment shown in this video is using Tekla Structures and the Tekla Open API (Application Programming Interface). Please visit www.tekla.com to learn more about Tekla Structures.

Industrial Pipe Rack Modeling

Jay — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:18:36 +0000

Watch this video and see how easy it is to use the modular and reusable ConXtech assemblies and connections to model an industrial Pipe Rack the BIM software Tekla Structures.

13th Annual LCI Congress

Jay — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 23:06:53 +0000

13th Annual Lean Construction Institute Congress 2011

DATE & TIME:

Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 8:00 AM
- Friday, October 7, 2011 at 2:00 PM (PT)

WHERE:

Pasadena, CA

Innovation, Improvement & Integration
The primary meeting of the year – the 13th Annual Lean Construction Institute Congress, takes place October 4-7, 2011 in Pasadena, California. The LCI Congress features national and international owners, designers, contractors, and suppliers describing what they have experienced and learned adopting Lean Construction.

ConXtech’s CEO Bob Simmons discusses the topic of Chassis Based Modular Construction and how to leverage technology to build more for less together with Bob Hazelton from Herrick Steel and Saul Hernandez from Aera Energy. They present two case studies:

A CoreSite data center project where Herrick and ConXtech proved that multiple fabricators can deliver to manufacturing tolerances on structural assemblies
An Aera softwater plant project where innovation beyond the structure brought significant time and monetary savings to the owner

Watch a video recording of the presentation

http://vimeo.com/33207359

Questions? Email us at: info@ConXtech.com

ConXtech Hosts AISC Steel Day 2011

Admin — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 12:11:06 +0000

Design and build your next project FASTER, BETTER, SAFER AND GREENER™
with CONX^® CHASSIS BASED MODULAR™ building system.

The American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) and ConXtech® invite you to visit ConXtech’s Hayward, California facility on Friday September 23th, for SteelDay 2011. This event will showcase the benets of steel construction, including how we collectively can build better, greener and more efficiently with ConX®.

ConXtech designs and delivers innovative, mass customizable and sustainable structural steel building systems and components. Often referred to as a “full-scale erector set,” ConXtech applies technology to the building industry resulting in dramatic efciencies. Based upon the theory that a finite number of precisely manufactured connectors, components and assemblies can be recongured to achieve almost any design criteria, the company employs CAD tools, CNC machining, and robotics to streamline the detailing, manufacturing, through eld “assembly” processes. The result is a precise, affordable, seismically sound, blast and progressive collapse resistant structure that can be deployed into a host of markets including: Industrial / Energy, Healthcare, Academic, Government & Institutional, Military, High-Density Residential, Hotel, Resort, Mixed Use, a host of others.

BI-AXIAL TEST FRAME

Tour Our Innovative Manufacturing and World Class Bi-Axial Test Facility built for OSHPD and AISC approvals. Also see how we take a project from concept (BIM) – directly to manufacturing and eld, achieving unprecedented precision and efficiency.

LEARN ABOUT CONXTECH

Learn about ConXtech’s key benets including: sustainability, durability, speed, safety and savings in time and cost. Learn how a systemized, componentized approach accelerates schedules, resulting in high-performance structures that minimize construction’s impact on our local communities as well as our planet.

MEET MANY OF THE VENDORS

Meet many of the vendors and industry partners who collaboratively bring value to ConXtech structures in a variety of ways including: Airgas, Applied Bolting Technology, Bay Bolt, Consolidated Engineering Labs (CEL), Farwest Steel, Hilti, HUB Insurance Services, Lincoln Electric, Mazak, PDM, and others.

DATE & TIME:

FRIDAY SEP. 23, 2011 -BETWEEN 8:00 A.M. AND 2:00 P.M.

Refreshments will be served throughout the day and a BBQ lunch sponsored by Farwest Steel will be available from 11:00 a.m. through 1:00 p.m. Please let us know if you plan to drop by for an hour or two by registering (see RSVP info).

WHO IS INVITED:

Engineers, Architects, Developers, General Contractors, Building Officials, Building Inspectors and others in the industry as well as Educators and Students. Whether you’ve been to ConXtech before or not – you are welcome to join us!

WHERE:

CONXTECH, INC., 24493 CLAWITER ROAD, HAYWARD, CA.

PARTICIPATING VENDORS:

Pipe Rack

Admin — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:05:53 +0000

ConXR Ongoing
Location:	Bakersfield, CA
Owner:	Aera Energy LLC
GC:	Aera Energy LLC
Engineer:	Joshua Moody, S.E.
Architect:	Technical Services & Management

PROJECT NARRATIVE

Water Processing Plant on Central California Oil Field
ConXtech has an ideal solution for Pipe Rack and Processing structures. Safe and rapid to erect, ConXtech’s modular approach brings efficiencies in cost and materials. The brace free and structurally robust ConXR System made it possible to design for the worst case scenario, and then fabricate and erect the structure before the piping layout/design was finalized. Other modular pipe rack components designed and provided by ConXtech will be integrated into the structure as the project progresses.

PROJECT CHALLENGES / SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS

The Owner’s Senior Project Manager estimates that utilizing the ConX System will save their company 1 year off of an otherwise 4 year schedule. Starting production in this oil field one year earlier makes the ROI measurable and significant.

PHOTO GALLERY

Pipe Rack Brochure Download Project Sheet

ConXtech

Global Petroleum Show 2012

ConXtech will be exhibiting at the Global Petroleum Show (GPS) in booth #3002.

DATE & TIME:

June 12 – 14, 2012

WHERE:

Stampede Park

NASCC 2012

ConX – Not Just a Connection – An Integrated System

Test Drive the ConX Digital Chassis

Get hands-on with ConXR

C-BIP Toronto: Where do supply chains emerge?

ConXtech’s CEO Robert Simmons takes part in panel discussion 2: Assemblies + Systems

DATE & TIME:

WHERE:

The Power Plant

PHOTO GALLERY

ConXtech’s Innovative Connections Used at Stanford Law School

Degenkolb Engineers Honored with American Council of Engineering Award

Kaiser Permanente, San Marcos

PROJECT NARRATIVE

PROJECT CHALLENGES / SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS

PHOTO GALLERY

Creating the Digital Chassis

Industrial Pipe Rack Modeling

13th Annual LCI Congress

13th Annual Lean Construction Institute Congress 2011

DATE & TIME:

WHERE:

ConXtech Hosts AISC Steel Day 2011

Design and build your next project FASTER, BETTER, SAFER AND GREENER™with CONX® CHASSIS BASED MODULAR™ building system.

BI-AXIAL TEST FRAME

LEARN ABOUT CONXTECH

MEET MANY OF THE VENDORS

DATE & TIME:

FRIDAY SEP. 23, 2011 -BETWEEN 8:00 A.M. AND 2:00 P.M.

WHO IS INVITED:

WHERE:

PARTICIPATING VENDORS:

Pipe Rack

PROJECT NARRATIVE

PROJECT CHALLENGES / SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS

PHOTO GALLERY

Design and build your next project FASTER, BETTER, SAFER AND GREENER™
with CONX^® CHASSIS BASED MODULAR™ building system.