St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church Steel Tracery

Hamilton, ON

Client

Hamilton Diocese

Architect

ATA Architects

Structural Consultant

Mantecon Partners

St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church is a new church for the Hamilton Diocese. The overall architectural composition and form of the church strives to be simple and timeless. Walters was awarded the structural steel scope of roughly 746 tons with Feature Walters completing the Tracery.

Our Role

Feature Walters will create three window tracery frames for the St. Catherine Church, located on the East, West and South sides of the buildings. These frames are constructed from curved HSS (Hollow Structural Steel) in an AESS (Architecturally Exposed Structural Steel) 2 finished, used to support the aluminum framing and glazing.

Our scope on this feature art installation includes 17 tons total, AESS 2. The project includes almost all welded connections, prime painted in the shop.

Facts & Figures

Each tracery has:

28 single nodes
20 double nodes
10 single field splice nodes
1358 inches of shop weld
520 inches of field weld
Approx. 500 ft of HSS 10 ft x 3 ft

Overcoming Challenges

These frames are approximately 40 ft by 50 ft, and with this large size the they need to be spliced to accommodate shipping requirements. This connection needs to be designed carefully in order to maintain the geometry of the frame as well as consider how it will affect the AESS finish.

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