TORONTO – Rogers Sportsnet’s new studio won the Award of Excellence in the engineering category at the 18th annual Steel Design Awards sponsored by the Ontario region of the Canadian Institute of Steel Construction.
The award was for the new studio’s column-removal project, which involved designing and installing a pair of 30,000-ton steel trusses that spanned 18 metres, and removing a central column at the ground-floor of the Isabella Tower, a 12-storey structure on the Rogers campus.
Sportsnet and Halsall Associates Limited, the consultants and structural engineers behind the project, received the award.
“The column removal was truly an architectural feat,” said Frank Bruno, vice-president of Engineering and Television at Rogers Sportsnet. “The award is well-deserved and speaks to the hundreds of hours of hard work put in by countless individuals at Rogers Communications, Sportsnet and Halsall Associates.”
Submissions for the award were evaluated based on their ingenuity and innovation in the use of structural steel or plate-work and had to have been completed between October 1, 2006 and April 1, 2009.
