The new SOS Children’s Villages Roosevelt Square community center located in Chicago, Illinois is an 11,000-square-foot space completed in October 2020.
The cold-formed steel (CFS) engineer for the project, the Brookfield, Wis. office of raSmith, designed the exterior CFS framing that supports the metal panel veneer. raSmith is a member of the Steel Framing Industry Association (SFIA).
The CFS framing system includes bypass framing attached to the CLT roof with deflection clips and hard clips, exterior openings and, most notably, support framing for the continuous sloping curtain walls. A small amount of interior framing for the main entry vestibule was also part of raSmith’s project scope.
Read more about the SOS Children’s Village CFS project.