The 1.3-million-sq-ft Fenway Center project is on track to become one of the first new air-rights projects to take shape on Boston's skyline in decades. One of the most crucial components of the high-rise complex-the 90,000-sq-ft deck over the Massachusetts Turnpike next to Fenway Park-has been designed with help of Qnect, a firm whose cloud-based connection design software is gaining traction. The Hadley, Mass.-based firm is working with the project's consulting engineer LeMessurier, according to Jef Sharp, CEO of Qnect. The cloud-based software crunches all the numbers for dimensions and load, automatically placing all the structural steel connections, and then delivers this detailing into the Tekla Structures model used by the engineer. Qnect recendy completed its work on the deck over the Turnpike, which is "ready to fabricate," and the firm's work on the tower portion is "well underway," Sharp says.
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