CAST CONNEX is exhibiting at the IABSE Congress Ghent 2025. Explore our standardized cast steel connections and custom castings, designed to enhance the strength and beauty of innovative structures. Connect with our Vice President and UK Director, Jennifer Anna Pazdon, and Technical Sales Engineer, Pedro Madeiro - who are attending the conference, and discover how we can support your next project.
Keynote: Steel Castings for Enhanced Performance of Structures | Jennizer Pazdon
This presentation explores the use of steel castings in the design and construction of building and bridge structures is a fast-growing trend in the United States as casting manufacturing offers unparalleled geometric freedom in structural steel. As such, cast steel components are often used to address challenges in design and construction that would otherwise be very difficult to tackle using conventional steel fabrication. Given the freeform capabilities of casting manufacturing, castings are also very commonly used in architecturally exposed structural steel.
Through the study of successful past projects, attendees will be introduced to opportunities to leverage steel castings in architecturally exposed structural steel connections and complex arduously loaded connections to improve structural performance, enhance aesthetics, and/or to improve the constructability of the structural frame or system.
Attendees will learn how to create specifications for custom (project-specific) castings to successfully communicate architectural and structural design criteria to casting suppliers such that the casting products delivered to the project can safely and efficiently carry structural loads and achieve the desired aesthetics.
Jennifer will explain how various pre-engineered castings can improve the anti-seismic performance of buildings and how to specify them to enhance the structural resilience of buildings.
Visit Booth 66 to learn how to leverage cast steel components in your projects.
Date: November 19-21, 2025
Booth: 66
Location: Super Brock Arena, Porto
Event time:
Presenter(s):
Jennifer Pazdon
Location:
Portugal
