Connection Design

As part of Ford’s long-term vision to lead America’s transition to electric vehicles and introduce more sustainable, carbon-neutral manufacturing, Blue Oval City was designed to be the largest, most advanced...

CSD provided connection design services for this 68-story New York City high-rise, which houses 2.85 million square feet of mixed-use space. The design involved complex connections with extremely large forces...

CSD provided valuable Value Engineering during the bid phase. The “Super Diagonals” were originally designed as 30”x60” plate boxes filled with reinforced concrete. We worked with the fabricator to come...

CSD provided connection design services for this 12-story, 260,000 square foot sustainable structure. The superstructure is constructed of several intersecting trusses. CSD designed all of the nodes that connected the...

Comcast Center is a 58-story, 1.4 million square foot tower that is one of Philadelphia’s tallest at 974-feet, and is also the corporate headquarters for Comcast. Lateral stability, for this...

Cowboys Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys, seats 80,000 fans and has a retractable roof. It is the world’s largest column free interior space and is supported by the two...

Fiserv Forum, home of the Milwaukee Bucks, is a 714,000 sq. ft. sports and entertainment venue at the heart of downtown Milwaukee. The venue will also host concerts by headliners...

Little Caesars Arena is a multi-purpose arena that primarily serves as the home venues for the Detroit Red Wings and Detroit Pistons. The roof structure features large-span roof trusses spanning...

CSD provided connection design services for the interior connections from the 21st to 93rd floors. This included shear, axial, moment and brace connections. With 44,000 tons of structural steel, this...

The new 806,000 square foot East Tower addition to the Rush University Medical Center will provide expanded basic and clinical research as well as acute and critical care to its...

The New York Times Building is a 52-story, 1.54 million square foot skyscraper that reaches 1,046-feet into the New York City skyline. Lateral stability for this 22,000 ton skyscraper is...

The project is a new airport terminal for Delta Airlines. The project is approximately 9200 tons. The biggest challenge was developing economical connections for the HSS vertical bracing that required...

Working as consultant on the connection design of the Texas Rangers Ballpark Complex in Arlington, TX, CSD drew on our relationship with the client, W&W Steel, and our ability to...