Cast ConneX has been retained to detail and supply the AESS cast steel connectors for the World Trade Center Tower 3 in New York City. These highly visible AESS cast steel components join the ends of the suspended floor girders to the main trusses, together supporting the glass floor and walkway of the Retail Redevelopment-East in Tower 3.

Owner: The Port Authority of NY and NJ
Developer: WTC Properties LLC, an affiliate of Silverstein Properties
Architects: Beyer Blinder Belle
Structural Engineers: WSP Cantor Seinuk
General Contractor: Tishman Construction
Steel Fabricator: Owen Steel

To vastly accelerate the fabrication and erection of the special concentrically steel braced frames (SCBF) for this industrial project in Modesto, California, the Structural Engineer of Record called for the use of Cast ConneX^® High-Strength Connectors™, including the newest HSC-10.75, to meet the high seismic load demands placed on these frames and their connections. The use of High-Strength Connectors in conjunction with intelligent connection detailing throughout the frame completely eliminated all field-welding in the primary structural system, vastly reducing erection time and schedule risk.

Industrial Engineers: Eichleay Engineers
Structural Engineers: Summit Engineering
Steel Fabricator: Lloyd W. Aubry Co.

To convey pedestrians between the Walter C. Mackenze Health Sciences Center and the Research Transition Facility over 114 Street, the king post trusses of this pedestrian bridge utilize HSS 219 web members fitted with Cast ConneX^® Universal Pin Connectors™ at each end finished to AESS Category 3.

Owner: University of Alberta
Architects: Stantec / Dialog
Structural Engineers: Dialog
General Contractor: PCL
Steel Fabricator: Quirion Métal

Cast ConneX blends fluid architectural form and structural function into a single cast steel base for a pair of inclined columns at the main entrance of one of Toronto’s newest transit hubs. This exterior element forms a major architectural feature of this station and fully integrates a uniquely shaped base plate, transitional form, and inclined, round hollow section columns.

Owner: Toronto Transit Commission
Architects: Will Alsop at RMJM, Stevens Group Architects, and IBI Group Architects
Structural Engineers: Halsall, a Parsons Brinckerhoff Company
General Contractor: The Walsh Group
Steel Fabricator: Benson Steel

Driven by the need to provide superior seismic resistance, to eliminate field welding, and to provide the ability to easily demount and relocate piping, the tripod supports for new 10-inch pipes at the Chevron refinery in Richmond utilize Cast ConneX^® High-Strength Connectors™.

Owner: Chevron
Structural Engineers: Jacobs
Steel Fabricator: AMT Metal Fabricators

The largest sizes of Cast ConneX^® Universal Pin Connectors™ will be featured at the ends of the primary bracing members of the two interior, 13-storey, architecturally exposed braced frames of the Innovation Centre for Engineering at the University of Alberta. The braces will be directly within the building’s program space – occupants can walk on either side of the braces and even touch the structural elements. The building’s designers thus specified Universal Pin Connectors, as they provide consistency of architectural form and appearance and unparalleled aesthetics.

Owner: University of Alberta
Architects: Dialog
Structural Engineers: Dialog
General Contractor: EllisDon
Steel Fabricator: Supreme Steel

Cast ConneX^® Universal Pin Connectors™ are featured at both ends of the exterior struts supporting the roof projection for this 27,000-square-foot building, a $10 million project to house the Ocean Observatories Initiative, the Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory, the WHOI Ocean Bottom Seismometer Instrument Pool, and the Environmental Sample Processor Lab.

Owner: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Architects: Ellenzweig
Structural Engineers: LeMessurier Consultants
General Contractor: Columbia Construction Company
Steel Fabricator: Novel Iron Works

This world-class development includes both the modernization of an existing historic Toronto building and the construction of a new multi-storey building perched atop three, 70-foot tall, architecturally exposed, steel frame structures. Cast ConneX is providing design-build services for the unique 35,000 lb cast steel nodes that form the central kernel points of the frames. The 1-meter (39.375-inch) diameter tubular members of the frames, along with the cast steel nodes, will be concrete filled composite elements. The three frames are main elements in the gravity and lateral force resisting systems for the building.

Owner: Allied Properties REIT
Architects: Sweeny, Sterling, Finlayson & Co Architects
Structural Engineers: Stephenson Engineering
General Contractor: Eastern Construction
Steel Fabricator: Walters

Cast ConneX^® High-Strength Connectors™ were specified by Burns and Roe in a project to replace an existing physical security protection system at a major nuclear facility at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. As the project is security related, no other details can be provided.

Owner: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Structural Engineers: Burns and Roe
General Contractor: Hensel Phelps
Steel Fabricator: Mesa Steel

Cast ConneX^® High-Strength Connectors™ are featured in the building’s architecturally exposed, seismic-resistant braced frames, both simplifying construction and enhancing the aesthetics of the spectacular steel and wood structure. The $11.2-million facility includes a swimming pool, gymnasium, and recreation centre.

Owner: City of St-Lambert, Quebec
Architects: Leclerc architecte
Structural Engineers: GENIVAR
General Contractor: Kingston Byers
Steel Fabricator: Charpentes Métalliques TAG

Cast ConneX^® Universal Pin Connectors™ are used at the bases of feature exterior columns fronting the new library branch in Barrie's south-end. The $4.5-million, 15,000 square foot facility is geared towards the area's young population and includes space for about 130,000 books, computers, quiet study areas, and a multi-purpose community room which can accommodate more than 100 people.

Owner: City of Barrie, Ontario
Architects: ZAS Architects
Structural Engineers: Halsall, a Parsons Brinckerhoff Company
General Contractor: Bertram Construction & Design
Steel Fabricator: North Steel

Cast ConneX^® Universal Pin Connectors™ were specified by Burns & McDonnell in the $8.4 million, 21,400 square foot, state-of-the-art facility that will support the 177th Wing’s mission in the Overseas Contingency Operation. The Universal Pin Connectors were used in architecturally exposed connections at the top and bottom of several feature columns. Construction is expected to be completed in January of 2011.

Owner: United States Air National Guard
Architects: Burns & McDonnell
Structural Engineers: Burns & McDonnell
General Contractor: Sambe Construction
Steel Fabricator: J.V. Palmonari

Cast ConneX^® High-Strength Connectors™ were specified by the Canam Group and were subsequently used for the seismic-critical bracing connections of the new 6-storey Sandoz Canada administration facilities constructed in Boucherville, Quebec. The administration building is a part of large new development which includes 40,000 square feet of manufacturing space, 10,500 square feet of warehousing space and 17,000 square feet for administrative support. The Boucherville facilities are the largest small-volume injectable drug production site in Canada.

Owner: Sandoz Canada
Architects: Les Architectes Odette Roy et Isabelle Jacques
Design-Builder: Canam Group

Members of the Cast ConneX team worked with Walters Inc. on the design and finite element analysis of the five structural cast steel nodes for the roof supporting tree structure in the new science building at Guelph University. The tree, located in the main atrium and made up of large diameter HSS tube sections, is 25 metres in height and is fully exposed to view, requiring aesthetic tube-to-tube connections. This was achieved using carefully shaped cast steel nodes.

Owner: University of Guelph
Architects: Robbie/Young + Wright Architects
Structural Engineers: Carruthers & Wallace
General Contractor: Aecon
Steel Fabricator: Walters