Buildings & Crane Runways

The rapid growth of the private space industry in recent years has created opportunities for CSD to bring our expert services to the design of unique industrial structures. This particular...

CSD’s longstanding relationship with Steel Dynamics proved to be a valuable asset for this massive construction project just north of Corpus Christi, Texas. At $1.9B, the project was the largest...

CSD provided design of a 117,000 square foot Melt Shop addition to support five overhead cranes up to 500-ton capacity, two wall traveling jib cranes, and three maintenance monorail hoists....

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...

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 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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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”....

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...

CSD provided design of the building structure – an 1,800-foot long two-aisle building with 12 overhead cranes ranging from 10 metric tons to 50 metric tons, and eave heights ranging...