Lucent Building

BendTec bent the structural tubing of the vierendeel trusses and the antenna shaped roof and fabricated the support legs for the Lucent Technology Building in Lisle Illinois.

"The building's central core roof is comprised of nine pie-shaped sections and the fillers the connected them.  Each segment, made of pipe tubing, had to fit over two columns and connect to a compression ring in the center"  

"...more than a mile of steel pipe had to be bent for the structural steel support system of the glass rotunda"

"State of the Art Redefined, Lucent projects bring new definition to High-tech design and construction of office buildings", F.W. Dodge Midwest Consctuction. Vol 3 no.9 Sept 2000

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Hayden Planetarium, American Museum of Natural History
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"The new American Museum of Natural History features an 87 foot diameter spheere that appears to be floating within a 100 foot high steel and glass tube."

 "New Planetarium a Soaring Achievement" 
Metals in Construction, Spring 1999

 

"Challenging Steel fabrication and erection at the American Museum of Natural History's new planetarium in New York City."

"A Sphere of Influende"
ENR:, Dec 6 1999

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BendTec Inc.
366 Garfield Ave.
P.O. Box 457
Duluth, Minnesota 55801
Tel: 218 722-0205
Fax: 218 722-6598

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