Our Work
Expertise in several areas of structural engineering sets CSD apart from the traditional consulting firm. Years of practical experience combined with participation in technical societies and research groups keeps CSD at the forefront of technology to provide services in the following areas:
66 Hudson Boulevard
With approximately 31,500 tons of steel, this 68-story New York City highrise houses 2.85 million square feet of mixed-use space. Complex connections with extremely large forces and difficult 3D geometry...
Aeration Equipment Anchorage
CSD provides the design of the supports, bracing and anchorage for aeration equipment used in the wastewater treatment industry. Our design considers seismic loads and the effects of water sloshing.
Steel Dynamics Reheat Furnace Expansion Foundations
Designing the foundations to support a new reheat furnace, which heats steel billets in preparation for shaping in the rolling mill, CSD worked as preferred vendor for structural design on...
Steel Dynamics Paint Line Foundations
The Paint Line is a new 274,000 square foot building at SDI Columbus for a new paint line used for painting steel coils. The building consists of two crane runway...
Steel Dynamics Rolling Mill Foundations
The second rolling mill is an 82,000 square foot addition that consists of three crane runway aisles including a steel billet storage area, steel rolling mill line, and a maintenance...
Steel Dynamics Rebar Mill Foundations
CSD provided engineering for the complete building package and equipment support package for Steel Dynamics’ new rebar mill. With a tight design and construction schedule, CSD proved to be a...
Steel Dynamics Galvanizing Line #3 Foundations
Steel Dynamics partnered with CSD to design the building structure and building foundations to house a new Galvanizing line and provide overhead cranes for the line. As a preferred vendor,...
Steel Dynamics Paint Line
The Paint Line is a new 274,000 square foot building at SDI Columbus for a new paint line used for painting steel coils. The building consists of two crane runway...
Steel Dynamics Rolling Mill #2
The second rolling mill is an 82,000 square foot addition that consists of three crane runway aisles including a steel billet storage area, steel rolling mill line, and a maintenance...
Steel Dynamics Galvanizing Line #3
Steel Dynamics partnered with CSD to design the building structure and building foundations to house a new Galvanizing line and provide overhead cranes for the line. As a preferred vendor,...
Steel Dynamics Rebar Mill
CSD provided engineering for the complete building package and equipment support package for Steel Dynamics’ new rebar mill. With a tight design and construction schedule, CSD proved to be a...
Steel Dynamics Reheat Furnace Expansion
Designing the foundations to support a new reheat furnace, which heats steel billets in preparation for shaping in the rolling mill, CSD worked as preferred vendor for structural design on...
Nucor Shipping Expansion and Storage Racks
When Nucor Steel was designing an expansion to their shipping area of their Birmingham, Alabama facility, they consulted with CSD, their preferred vendor for structural design. Our long partnership with...
Steel Filter Tanks
CSD designs steel tanks used to filter water for various wastewater clients. These tanks are designed for operating and seismic loads.
Steel Curbs
CSD designs the anchorage for roof top HVAC units for various steel curb manufacturers. Our design includes the anchorage of the unit to the curb and the curb to the...
Equipment Skids
CSD designs the equipment bracing and supporting skids for various equipment manufacturers.
Equipment Enclosures
CSD designs equipment enclosures for various manufacturers that typically house generators.
Circular Clarifiers
CSD designs the circular clarifier equipment structural components for operating and seismic loads including water sloshing.
Avista Surgical Center
The Avista Surgical Center is a two story medical building with a steel framed structure supported on deep foundations. The building includes surgical and procedure rooms as well as ambulatory...
Denver Mattress
The Denver Mattress Entry Building was designed to provide a feature retail entrance to a converted existing office building. The entry building extends over the top of the existing office...
Harmony Corporate Center
The Harmony Corporate Center is a three story office building with a steel framed structure supported on deep foundations. The building features a “green” roof at the connection vestibule to...
New Belgium Brewery Office Building
The New Belgium Brewery Office Building is a two story timber framed structure that serves as the entrance for visitors as well as the central hub for the Brewery’s office...
Fabco Rents Lincoln Contractors Supply
The project consists of the alteration and renovation of an old aircraft hangar with bowed wood trusses into a construction equipment rental facility. It is across the street from the...
Inland Detroit Diesel
The project is a 62,000 square foot one story large vehicle maintenance and office facility. The building consists of a steel framed structure with an insulated metal wall panel and...
Kelch Division of Bemis
The project is a 174,000 square foot plastic injection molding facility including a two story office, a warehouse area, a die set-up area and a maintenance shop. The building is...
Ozaukee State Bank
This 10,000 square foot two story bank building is constructed of a masonry and stone exterior, precast concrete floor system and a steel joist and metal deck roof system. The...
Prairie Preserve Corporate Center
This 40,000 square foot two story corporate office facility is constructed of cast in place concrete structure up to the second level with a precast floor system. A steel framed...
Gettysburg College Recreation Center
This custom skylight system encloses the indoor rock climbing wall at the campus recreation center. The skylight and rock climbing wall are the centerpiece of the new campus recreation center....
Hilton Columbus
This custom point supported canopy skylight system provides a cover over the walkway in front of the Hilton Hotel in downtown Columbus. The canopy skylight is an inverted point supported...
Loyola University
This custom skylight system provides the enclosure for the new Center for Sustained Urban Living studies building at Loyola University. The skylight system combines the use of insulated glazing for...
Patriot Place
This custom point supported canopy skylight system provides a cover over the walkways between the shops at the New England Patriots stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts. The canopy skylight is a...
State University of New York
This custom skylight system provides the enclosure for the campus commons at State University. The skylight system uses aluminum rafters and insulated glazing to provide the enclosure of the interior...
Fastenal IHUB
Fastenal is a distributor of industrial and construction products throughout North America. CSD designed a 183’ wide by 450’ long by 100’ tall rack supported building for the fabricator/erector. The...
H.E.B. Grocery
H.E.B. operates more than 350 groceries in Texas and Northern Mexico. CSD designed a 150’ wide by 200’ long by 100’ tall automated rack supported building structure for the fabricator/erector....
Nucor Roll Storage Building
Nucor-Yamato Steel Company is the largest structural steel mill in the Western Hemisphere. CSD designed this 47,000 square foot rack building to support sizing rolls ranging from 28,000 to 51,000...
Clarian IU Cancer Center
Over 900 precast panels clad this 94,000 square foot hospital. The wall panels include a combination of brick clad, limestone clad and exposed acid-etched concrete panels. The limestone clad panels...
NU Silverman Hall
Architectural precast panels were designed as cladding for the four story building, the three story building, and the connecting bridge of this project. The precast design included wall panels, column...
Park Tower
This project consisted of 240,000 square feet of architectural cladding panels for a 67 story mixed-use building including hotel, condominiums, and parking. It was believed to be the tallest architectural...
Saint Clare’s Hospital
Saint Clare’s Hospital is a 650,000 square-foot full service medical campus located in north-central Wisconsin. CSD provided engineering and drafting services on the various campus buildings for the architectural precast...
Spancrete Plant Addition
This 60,000 square foot precast manufacturing building addition has (3) 55 foot bays that are designed to support (4) 25-ton cranes in each bay. It is primarily used for wet...
BOK Center
The BOK Center is a multi-use arena for concerts, performances, and professional sports events. The roof structure is comprised of long span trusses. The entrance to the BOK Center is...
ExxonMobil Energy Center
ExxonMobil’s new Houston campus began construction in 2011. The goal is to consolidate several EM divisions into the new state-of-the-art facilities. The new campus will serve 10,000+ employees and is...
Kennecott Eagle Minerals Bins
This facility is an underground nickel-copper mining operation in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The mine is expected to produce 300 million pounds of nickel and 250 million pounds of copper during...
Met II Wells Fargo Center
Met II is a commercial office building and hotel located in downtown Miami. The building compromises two towers built upon a single parking structure. The Wells Fargo tower is a...
150 North Riverside
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...
Canadian Museum of Human Rights
The Canadian Museum of Human Rights (CMHR) is a 12-story, 260,000 square foot sustainable structure. It is the first museum outside of the National Capital Region. The superstructure is constructed...
Comcast Center
Comcast Center is a 58-story, 1.4 million square foot tower that is the tallest building in Philadelphia and is the corporate headquarters for Comcast. Lateral stability, for this 11,000 ton...
Cowboys Stadium
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
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
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...
Commuter Rail Maintenance Facility
The commuter rail maintenance facility (CRMF) is a LEED Gold certified, 230,000 square foot facility used to maintain, clean and store the high-speed vehicles that serve the Rail Line to...
Honda Marysville Line One Paint Shop
This project consisted of a multi-level, 750,000 square foot manufacturing facility used to paint Honda auto bodies. Numerous conveyor lines and equipment were supported on the elevated floors and from...
Lehigh Cement Grinding Facility
This structure was an addition to a cement production facility located in Tehachapi, CA, constructed in 2017. This structure supports numerous conveyors and pieces of equipment including large material storage...
Nucor Baghouse #1 Stack
Baghouse #1 needed to be upgraded to meet current EPA standards. This included raising the elevation at which air exited the baghouse from its previous elevation of 93’-6” to 199’-0”....
West Palm Beach Equipment Support Structure
The new renewable energy facility will be located immediately north of the SWA’s existing Palm Beach County Renewable Energy Facility No. 1 on Jog Road in West Palm Beach. It...
Transcontinental Paper
Transcontinental Paper is one of the largest printers in the US and Canada. CSD designed the 45ft wide by 380ft long by 60ft tall automated rack supported building structure for...
MSOE Grohmann Tower
This exciting urban project located in the thriving downtown Milwaukee area is a 14 story complete precast building solution. The project is a mixed-use building with apartments, ground level commercial...
Sprint Center
The Sprint Center is a multi-use arena for concerts, performances, and professional sports events. The roof structure utilized primary long-span roof trusses in one direction along with additional header and...
One World Trade Center
One World Trade Center is a 104-story, 3.5 million square foot skyscraper that is the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere. Lateral stability for this 44,000 ton skyscraper is provided...
Rush University Medical Center Addition
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
The New York Times Building is a 52-story, 1.54 million square foot skyscraper that is the fifth tallest building in New York City. Lateral stability for this 22,000 ton skyscraper...
Coresite LA3 Generators
The Coresite LA3 Generators are multiple diesel-powered electric generators that supply emergency power for a data center in Los Angeles, California. Due to limited space on the site, the generators...
Dry Screen Building
This project, located in Convent, LA, consisted of a building to support and house ore processing equipment. The equipment included the tail end of a conveyor, a vibratory feeder, an...
Florida Polytechnic University
The Applied Research Center at Florida Polytechnic University will include laboratories, student space, conference rooms, and offices. The two-story building includes a unique geometric design with a large section of...
Nucor New Electric Arc Furnace
Providing engineering for platform modifications, foundations, and slag walls in an existing structure involves challenges that require a high level of experience and problem-solving ability. CSD excels at these kinds...
GE MR Cooling Tower Upgrades
GE Healthcare in Waukesha, WI was in need of replacement and upsizing of their cooling towers, which serve as part of the manufacturing process for their magnetic resonance products. CSD’s...
Klein Dickert
Klien Dickert needed a design partner they could trust for their new 62,000 square foot manufacturing and office building in Pewaukee, WI, so they turned to their long-term partner and...
LGA Airfield Headhouse
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...
Texas Rangers Ballpark Complex
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...
Museum of Fine Arts Houston
The new Kinder Building at the Museum of Fine Arts – Houston will house art pieces created after 1900. The interior space mimics a canopy of clouds under a curved...
UTOC Hangar
The UTOC Hangar is a tall long span truss structure to accommodate airplanes. The stability of long span members is dependent on secondary members and infill members that were not...
Nucor JFE Galvanizing Line
The Nucor JFE Galvanizing Line supplies steel to automakers in Mexico. CSD’s partnership and relationship with Nucor made our team the logical choice to provide building structure design for this...
Exploria Soccer Stadium
Home to the Orlando City SC of Major League Soccer, Exploria Stadium is a soccer stadium located in downtown Orlando, FL. Due to special considerations for this project, the client...
Commercial/Industrial
CSD is an innovator in stair design, providing structural engineering design of ladders for various commercial, industrial, retail, restaurant, educational, and public buildings across the nation. CSD works with the...
Industrial Structure
The CSD team prides itself on solving problems for our clients with exceptional service. Our partnership with Nucor Steel has provided us with fruitful opportunities to exemplify that service. Nucor...
Entertainment Venue
As Specialty Structural Engineer on a project involving spiral stairs, monumental stairs, and steel rails in a Las Vegas casino entertainment venue, CSD drew upon our knowledge and ingenuity to...
Commercial Building
CSD provides delegated structural engineering design of egress stairs and associated rails for various commercial, retail, restaurant, educational, and public buildings throughout the United States. We work with the steel...
Duke Energy – Edwardsport IGCC Project
The new Duke Energy Edwardsport IGCC project is an integrated gasification combined cycle power plant that replaces smaller and older units already at the plant. The project includes large equipment,...
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