Confidential Life Sciences R&D Laboratory

This 120,000 SQFT research & development laboratory, located on an existing campus, will expand manufacturing and testing for pharmaceuticals, vaccines, and biological products for US-based preclinical and clinical work. Jacobs selected ConXtech for Structural Steel Design-Assist and Fabrication / Erection during Conceptual Design, and this project was delivered in accordance with Integrated Project Delivery principles. Conxtech’s solution included a mixture of patented connection technologies that offered safer and faster steel erection, minimized site labor, was cost-competitive, and fully met all building performance criteria.

Employing non-seismic braced frames as the Lateral Force Resisting System (LFRS), ConXtech integrated ConXtech XL300 and XL400 collars as Flexible Moment Connections (FMCs). The ConXtech FMC system serves a dual purpose: first, it provides essential stability and alignment during frame erection; and second, it transitions to become part of the gravity load system in the final structure, thus not participating in the LF RS. ConXtech’s FMC solution reflects the latest evolution in ConXtech’s design approach and can be paired with any LFRS. ConXtech proposed this approach for subject program as it provided the most efficient frame weight and cost while still allowing for safer steel erection and a field assembly rate that any other competing structural system cannot match.

• Cost competitive
• Work in combination with any steel LFRS (but not part of the LFRS)
• Immediate frame stability
• No concrete fill of any columns
• No RBS beams at ConX collars
• No pretensioned bolts
• Wider beam selections
• Enables safer and faster steel erection on par with ConXtech’s legacy MF products