When you hear of a 101,000 square foot, steel reinforced data center built in nine days, you’d think it unfeasible. 
Then when you hear about a 10 story steel tower built in three days, you’d have to think “impossible.” These two extraordinary feats have one thing in common: ConXtech, a Hayward-based technology company that manufactures prefabricated steel space frame systems.
Then when you hear about a 10 story steel tower built in three days, you’d have to think “impossible.” These two extraordinary feats have one thing in common: ConXtech, a Hayward-based technology company that manufactures prefabricated steel space frame systems.Their modular systems are comprised of wide flange beams, HSS (or box columns,) and ConXR or ConXL connectors, allowing for mass-customization and configuration. With a ConX system, architects can select the structural grid early on in the design process, saving time that otherwise would have been spent designing around certain structural constraints. 
Dimensional accuracy also enables various architectural elements such as curtain systems, stairs, and balconies to be attached to the framework. ConX systems also allow for seismically sound, higher buildings as a result of their unique moment connection with bolted collar systems. ConXtech’s cost effective systems have already been employed for projects at Burning Man (where five people assembled a ten story building in five days in the middle of the desert), Stanford Law School, and the Coronado U.S. Naval Base.
What makes ConX systems so green is their decreased overall tonnage, collapse resistance, and energy and material efficiency. I guess this just goes to show that with maximum efficiency, anything is possible.
Cool, huh?
-Caroline
