Press Releases

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

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

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.

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ConXtech’s Structural Steel Fabrication Facility Passes Annual AISC Audit With Zero Non-Conformance

ConXtech’s Structural Steel Fabrication Facility Passes Annual AISC Audit With Zero Non-Conformance

ConXtech® Space Frame Systems’ state-of-the-art structural steel frame manufacturing facility passed its 2011 AISC Certified Building Fabricator audit performed by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC). The company’s highly automated facility passed the annual audit with zero non-conformances, a perfect score, for the third year in a row.

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ConXtech Completes Navy Lodge Structure at Coronado Naval Base

ConXtech Completes Navy Lodge Structure at Coronado Naval Base

ConXtech® Space Frame Systems has completed structural steel erection on a 152,000 gsf lodge for the US Navy utilizing ConXR™ Bi-Axial Structural Steel Framing Technology.

ConXtech® Space Frame Systems has completed structural steel erection on a 152,000 gsf lodge for the US Navy at the Naval Base on North Island, Coronado, CA. Delivery of the project, which leveraged Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) and Building Information Modeling (BIM) , was made significantly more efficient by utilizing the ConX® system and was erected in just 25 working days. In addition to speed of delivery, benefits of the ConX System vs. structural alternatives for this project were superior structural performance, cost neutrality vs. wood frame construction, safety, and inherent progressive collapse and blast resistance.

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The Herrick Licensed to be ConXtech’s First Certified Fabricator / Erector

The Herrick Licensed to be ConXtech’s First Certified Fabricator / Erector

The Herrick Corporation to Offer Conxtech’s Bi-Axial Structural Steel Building System Herrick Licensed to be Conxtech’s First Certified Fabricator / Erector

ConXtech® Space Frame Systems and The Herrick Corporation have reached an agreement which grants Herrick the technology licenses to fabricate and erect buildings utilizing ConXtech’s innovative bi-axial structural steel moment framing system. Herrick, the largest steel fabricator based on the West Coast, is the first licensee of ConXtech’s fabrication and erection technologies under the company’s certified fabricator/erector program.

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ConXtech’s Bi-Axial Steel Connection Meets OSHPD Requirements for Use in California Hospitals

ConXtech’s Bi-Axial Steel Connection Meets OSHPD Requirements for Use in California Hospitals

Approval Follows Successful Completion of Unprecedented Full Scale Bi-Axial Testing of ConXL™ Connection to Meet OSHPD’s Protocol

ConXtech® Inc. announced the notification by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) that its innovative ConXL™ moment frame connection meets OSHPD requirements for use in California hospitals. This milestone follows successful completion of full-scale cyclic testing of the company’s ConXL connection technology. A battery of full-scale tests was performed to an OSHPD approved testing protocol specifically designed for ConXtech’s true bi-axial moment connection.

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