Modern steel connection design depends much on compliance and accuracy. While maximizing manufacturing and erection efficiency, our steel connection detailing, beam-column steel connection, and steel column-to-column connection services guarantee structurally sound and code-compliant solutions. From conceptual design to final validation, we offer complete solutions that precisely and efficiently handle difficult engineering problems. Our approach minimizes material waste, reduces RFIs, and enhances project timelines, making us a trusted partner for fabricators, contractors, and structural engineers.
At Moldtek, we specialize in overcoming critical challenges in steel connection design to deliver optimal solutions. Our approach ensures accurate, efficient, and cost-effective results tailored for every project:
We ensure strict adherence to international design and safety codes for steel connection designs.
Our precise connection detailing significantly reduces errors, saving valuable time and resources.
Using Tekla, SDS2, and advanced BIM workflows, we ensure fast and accurate project execution.
Moldtek designs steel connections that improve project efficiency and minimize waste, reducing overall costs.
Our expertise simplifies complex connection designs, guaranteeing seamless coordination and compliance with global standards.
Ensuring code compliance and approval in various U.S. and Canadian states.
Reducing material and fabrication costs without compromising safety.
Direct collaboration with structural engineers, fabricators, and erectors.
Accelerated turnaround with high precision to prevent costly revisions.
Thorough validation to eliminate design errors and field issues.
Expertise in designing bolted and welded connections, ensuring structural integrity while optimizing material usage and fabrication efficiency.
Adherence to AISC 360, AWS D1.1, BS 5950, IS 800, and other global standards for safety and performance compliance.
In-depth analysis of load path and stability, considering axial, shear, moment, and torsional forces for robust connection designs.
Advanced detailing using Tekla Structures and SDS2, ensuring accurate shop drawings, erection plans, and seamless BIM integration.
Delegated design expertise in moment connections, bracing systems, base plates, and stiffeners, ensuring structural integrity.
Automated workflows for faster turnaround, delivering precise shop drawings, material lists, and CNC data for fabrication.
We leverage industry-leading software to ensure accuracy, efficiency, and compliance in steel connection design:
Advanced finite element analysis for complex connections.
Automated design per AISC, CSA, and other codes.
Structural analysis and design integration.
3D modeling and detailing for seamless coordination.
Comprehensive structural analysis and optimization.
For concrete anchor design.
Our steel connection detailing and validation services adhere to the latest industry standards, ensuring structural integrity and regulatory approval:
AISC (American Institute of Steel Construction)
AWS (American Welding Society)
IBC (International Building Code)
ASCE 7 (Minimum Design Loads for Buildings & Structures)
CSA S16 (Canadian Standard for Steel Structures)
OSHA & Seismic Design Provisions
With a strong commitment to engineering excellence, our P.E.-stamped designs provide complete assurance of compliance, accuracy, and efficiency in your steel connection design, beam column steel connection, and steel column to column connection solutions.
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) was looking to cue the assembly process for the Range Rover Velar GT EMA L481 model, concentrating on the production of critical body panels—wheelhouse rear quarter, Body Sides Inner (BSI), Body Sides Inner Reinforcement (BSIR), and Body Sides Outer (BSO). Ultimately, the prime goal was to optimize design and manufacturing processes in terms of efficiency, accuracy, and cycle time reduction.
Morrow High School, a public institution in Jonesboro, GA, required a complex steel detailing and connection design solution for its multi-building campus. The project, fabricated by Stein Steel, encompassed a three-level educational building, a gym, multiple locker rooms, and field house plans, including dugouts. With a total steel tonnage of 2,500 and a strict 24-week schedule, the project demanded precision, efficiency, and seamless coordination.
Our scope included all main and miscellaneous steel detailing, connection design, and delegated design. A key challenge was the design and detailing of 16 different staircases, including spiral, circular, grand, social, garage, and dog-leg stairs. Particularly, the circular stairs required intricate detailing due to their short radius and single intermediate supporting member. The spiral stairs added further complexity, featuring rolled HSS with vertical offsets, radial pans, and perforated risers, with an intermediate landing supported by a single tapered cantilever beam.
We efficiently managed 23 detailing sequences, delivering sealed design calculation reports, connection design reports, erection drawings, and shop fabrication drawings. By integrating structural and architectural inputs with advanced analysis, we ensured compliance, stability, and seamless execution. Despite the challenges, our expertise enabled the timely completion of this intricate project within the fabrication release schedule.
The Taylorsville Utah Temple, located in Taylorsville, Utah, presented a distinctive challenge due to its complex geometry and intricate framing conditions. Fabricated by Lundahl, this 850-ton church building required meticulous steel detailing and connection design to ensure precision, stability, and seamless execution within a strict 15-week schedule.
Our scope covered key structural components, including gravity columns, base plates, anchor bolts, steel moment frame columns, cooling tower support steel, floor and roof framing, floor opening frames, embeds, bent plates, safety posts, BRB brace connections, stairs, and railings. One of the primary challenges was coordinating heavy anchor bolts with anchorage frames and navigating the complex roof geometry, which featured multiple hip and valley framing conditions.
By integrating structural and architectural inputs, we conducted in-depth analysis and submitted sealed design calculation reports to validate the integrity of the connections. Our team delivered erection drawings for approval, sealed design calculations, and detailed shop fabrication drawings, ensuring smooth coordination with fabricators and contractors.
Despite the project’s complexity, our expertise in delegated design and detailing allowed for precise execution, ensuring compliance, efficiency, and on-time completion. The result was a structurally sound and aesthetically refined temple that met all engineering and architectural expectations.