ConXtech

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 Engineers
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.

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.

Piperack

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

ConXtech Erects Steel in 9 Days for CoreSite’s Santa Clara Data Center

Admin — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 10:19:27 +0000

ConXtech’s ConXL™ product delivered unprecedented construction efficiencies as well as the robust steel frame for the 101,000 SF, LEED Gold data center

ConXtech® Space Frame Systems, a leading provider of innovative, robust structural steel solutions, today announced the completion of ConXL steel framing in nine days at CoreSite Realty Corporation’s (NYSE: COR) 101,000 square-foot Santa Clara data center. ConXtech began erecting on January 27th and topped out steel on the project on February 9th. The ConXL product addressed CoreSite’s need for a robust, long-span steel data center frame delivered cost-effectively and with increased speed to market.

ConXtech’s ConXL product is a long-span steel framing solution developed for commercial real estate structures such as hospitals, data centers, hotels, and industrial structures for the oil and gas industry. Benefits of ConXL include decreased overall tonnage, increased speed to market and safety, inherent seismic, blast and progressive collapse resistance, and overall cost-effectiveness.

“Structural robustness combined with the brace and shear wall free interior makes ConXL an ideal solution for data centers,” states Robert J. Simmons, CEO of ConXtech. “The enablement of future interior space customization is just one of the many ConXL benefits realized by leading data center providers such as CoreSite, who pride themselves on delivering flexible solutions to meet the custom needs of its enterprise clients.”

CoreSite’s Santa Clara data center at 2972 Stender Way is being built to LEED Gold standards and will feature energy-efficiency initiatives such as 97%-efficient UPS units, variable-frequency driven (VFD) cooling units, and air-side economization. The data center project is a part of CoreSite’s planned 496,000 square foot Santa Clara data center campus at Coronado Drive and Stender Way.

“CoreSite selected ConXtech as the steel provider for its Santa Clara data center project based on the structural robustness of the company’s ConXL steel product as well as the projected budget maximization and speed to market as was determined during the vendor selection process,” commented Billie Haggard, CoreSite’s senior vice president of data centers. “We are pleased with ConXtech’s performance and the strength of the steel frame they delivered.”

For more information on CoreSite’s Santa Clara data center project, including a live construction webcam, please visit CoreSite.

Navy Lodge

Admin — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 09:41:18 +0000

ConXR Complete
Location:	North Island, Coronado, CA
Total sf:	152,000
Owner:	US Navy (NAVFAC)
GC:	RQC – RQ Construction
Engineer:	GPLA – Gregory P. Luth and Associates
Architect:	RQC – RQ Construction

PROJECT NARRATIVE

This 146,500 GSF, 205 room Navy Lodge project was originally designed as 4 story wood over grade. When the Department of Defense updated their Unified Facilities Criteria, aggressive Anti Terrorism Force Protection (ATFP), Progressive Collapse, and blast resistance standards needed to be met. ConXtech’s inherently robust structural connection met and exceeded the criterium and was quickly converted to the ConXR structural solution. Frame erected in 25 working days.

PROJECT CHALLENGES / SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS

DoD / NAVFAC requirements stated in Unified Facilities Criteria, Integrated Project Delivery, USGBC LEED Silver Rating, 100% Building Information Modeling integration amongst project trades.

Coresite

Admin — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 08:24:04 +0000

ConXL Complete
Frame erected in 9 working days
Location:	Santa Clara, CA
Total sf:	100,000
Owner:	CoreSite
GC:	Matt Construction
Engineer:	FBA Engineers
Architect:	DCM

Introduction to ConXtech

Admin — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:24:57 +0000

This video is a comprehensive look at ConXtech and it’s innovative products, processes, and philosophy on building efficiently and more sustainably.

The Portable Tower

Admin — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:24:23 +0000

The Portable Tower is a revolutionary ten story event and advertising venue built with 200 tons of recycled steel. It can be erected anywhere within three days and can hold up to 1,000 plus people.

ConXL Biaxial Test Frame

Admin — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:23:46 +0000

ConXtech’s unique Bi-Axial Test Frame was developed to satisfy the conformance demonstration requirements for a bi-axial SMF connection that may be required for pre-qualification in any jurisdiction.

The ConX™ moment connection is the only true bi-axial connection in the steel framing market today and due to its unique characteristics a new testing protocol was developed and approved by the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD).

ConXtech’s Bi-Axial Test Frame is unique in its capability of cyclically testing (in the primary direction) a single column and two moment beams, up to a W36x262, while simultaneously imposing an orthogonal load across secondary moment beams equivalent to the primary beams probable maximum moment (Mpr). The self-equilibrating frame has the capacity of imposing, along the primary axis, a 1,000 kip load at the top of column while resisting 700 kip reactions at beam ends; and along the secondary axis, impose 700 kip loads at beam ends while resisting a 1,000 kip reaction at top of column.