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Our superior structural engineering services are built on over 50 years of expertise in a wide variety of disciplines. The knowledge and experience of CSD continue to position us as leaders in our industry. The articles published to our newsfeed highlight the work of the CSD team and our continuous improvement as structural engineering professionals.
CSD Provides Connection Design in Partnership on Manhattan Highrise
https://lsc-pagepro.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?m=7946&i=719968&p=40&ver=html5The 66 Hudson Boulevard project involved a unique partnership in which CSD provided delegated structural steel connection design working directly with WSP as structural engineer of record. This type of partnership is less common in the industry today but provides...
The American Institute of Steel Construction Flash Steel Conference will feature Mike Kempfert with a presentation on Drawing Details: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly – Revisited on October 26th and Roundtable on Connections on October 28th. Sign up today:...
CSD's Jim LaBelle has written a 2-part article "Test-Based Available Strengths for Aluminum Structures" for STRUCTURE Magazine. Part 1 summarizes two methods of determining available strengths from testing of aluminum structures, presents equations, and includes...
Overcoming Industrial Building Challenges Through Collaboration
https://www.csd-eng.com/author/gbatcha/George Batcha is featured in this Steel Joist Institute article that highlights the importance of close collaboration and detailed design drawings on a highly complex project....
Drawing Details: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Mike Kempfert will present a live webinar to review examples of drawing details for clarity and simplification, identify issues such as load path, and explore potential corrections to bad details.
Test Your Steel Stairway Design Knowledge
https://www.linkedin.com/company/modern-steel-construction/Test your steel stairway design knowledge with this quiz in the new issue of Modern Steel Construction, based on AISC Design Guide 34 written by CSD's Adam Friedman.
Modern Steel Construction: A New Chapter for Certification
https://www.csd-eng.com/publication/modern-steel-construction-a-new-chapter-for-certification/CSD's Mike West shares his thoughts on AISC's new Standard for Certification Programs in this article for the April 2021 issue of Modern Steel Construction.
CSD's Tom Getschman provides four reasons to seek an engineered erection plan in his latest article for Connector Magazine.
CSD provides connection design for Chicago’s Union Station Tower
https://www.enr.com/articles/50816-chicagos-union-station-tower-uses-first-80-ksi-steel-sections-in-the-usCSD lends our expertise to highly-visible projects nationwide, including the 51-story skyscraper that is part of the master redevelopment plan for Chicago's historic Union Station. With an innovative and efficient design, this office tower will feature over 1.5...
The October issue of Informed Infrastructure includes an article about Texas-Sized Joist Girders with contributions by CSD's George Batcha. Follow the link below to read more: http://read.informedinfrastructure.com/publication/?m=34763&i=674845&p=22