October 7 Webinar | Leveraging Steel Castings in HSS Structures: Innovating for Design and Constructability

Description

Mastering HSS Connections Series 2026
Title: Leveraging Steel Castings in HSS Structures: Innovating for Design and Constructability
Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2026
Time: 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. CT
Format: Live Webinar
Level: Intermediate, Technical, Engineer, Fabricator

This presentation explores the transformative role of steel castings in Hollow Structural Section (HSS) structures, focusing on the geometric freedom of casting design to improve structural performance, enhance architectural freedom, and innovate constructability methods. Attendees will learn how precision-engineered cast steel components can integrate with HSS structures to simplify complex connections, improve fabrication, and explore new possibilities in architectural and structural solutions.

By exploring real-world case studies, this course introduces creative approaches using steel castings that pioneer HSS constructability unmatched by conventional methods. Project examples will also consider the tolerance and performance benefits of using castings in complex connection geometries and demanding structural designs. This presentation provides valuable strategies for engineers, architects, fabricators and contractors to innovate HSS structures with steel castings to achieve efficiency, performance and innovation.

Learning Objectives

• Understand the structural and architectural advantages of steel castings in HSS systems.
• Identify key applications where steel castings simplify fabrication, improve constructability, and enhance performance in HSS structures.
• Review case studies which demonstrate successful implementation in real-world HSS projects.
• Recognize opportunities for steel casting use in critical structures and connections.

Speaker – Suzy Rajamoney – Cast Connex
Suzy Rajamoney, P.E., S.E., is the South-Central technical sales specialist for Cast Connex. She received her Bachelors in Civil Engineering with a focus in Structural Engineering from North Dakota State University. Before joining Cast Connex, Suzy was a consulting structural engineer at HKS, where she gained experience in design and construction. Notable projects in Suzy’s portfolio prior to Cast Connex include The Epic in Grand Prairie, TX, Struder Family Children’s Hospital in Pensacola, FL, Charles & Virginia Hickman Hospital in Adrian, MI, and Texas Health Harris Methodist Surgery Tower in Fort Worth, TX. Suzy is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Texas and a licenced structural engineer in the state of Oklahoma. Suzy currently resides in Dallas, where she provides support to architects and engineers who specify Cast Connex products and services.

Professional Development Hours
Each participant can earn 1.0 PDH or 1.0 LU/HSW and receive a certificate of completion from the Steel Tube Institute (STI). To receive a certificate from STI, you must login to the webinar via your unique registration link, attend the webinar in its entirety, and complete both poll questions.

Any participant that holds a PE license in Florida, Maryland, New York and/or North Carolina is required to complete a quiz for your PDH. Architects must complete the quiz for their LU/HSW and send their AIA number to sfontaine@steeltubeinstitute.org to have attendance reported to AIA. The quiz widget is available along the bottom row of the ON24 dashboard.

Registration Types & Fees

• HSS Professional Member
  • Individual: Registration is free with your individual membership.
  • Group: Registration is free with your group membership.
• Non-Member
  • Individual: $95 for individual registration.
  • Group: Only available with an HSS Professional Group Membership.

Individual registration provides a unique link for one login and is eligible for one PDH certificate upon successfully completing the webinar requirements.

Group registration, only available for HSS Professional Group Members, allows multiple attendees to view the webinar in one room or multiple people from the same office to view individually.

• The office contact for the HSS Professional Group Membership will receive a separate email with instructions for group viewing. 
• If viewing in one room, multiple PDH certificates may be issued provided the poll questions are completed by the group leader during the webinar, the group completes quiz together immediately following the webinar, and the attendee list is submitted within 48 hours of the webinar conclusion. All attendees on the list must have attended the webinar for its entirety.
• To view individually, each person will need to register individually.

AIA CES Provider statement
The Steel Tube Institute is a registered provider of AIA-approved continuing education under Provider Number 50111160, expiration 12/31/2026. All registered AIA CES Providers must comply with the AIA Standards for Continuing Education Programs. Any questions or concerns about this provider or this learning program may be sent to AIA CES (cessupport@aia.org or (800) AIA 3837, Option 3).

This learning program is registered with AIA CES for continuing professional education. As such, it does not include content that may be deemed or construed to be an approval or endorsement by the AIA of any material of construction or any method or manner of handling, using, distributing, or dealing in any material or product.

AIA continuing education credit has been reviewed and approved by AIA CES. Learners must complete the entire learning program to receive continuing education credit. AIA continuing education Learning Units earned upon completion of this course will be reported to AIA CES for AIA members. Certificates of Completion for both AIA members and non-AIA members are available upon request.