
CoreBrace is a Utah-based fabricator dedicated to buckling restrained braces for seismic protection of steel building frames.
CoreBrace is a Utah fabricator devoted solely to buckling restrained braces. It is headquartered at 5789 West Wells Park Road in West Jordan, Utah, and operates an AISC-certified manufacturing facility in Pocatello, Idaho.
Its braces have passed more than 100 full-scale tests, and its customers include structural engineers, steel fabricators, and general contractors. CoreBrace braces support stadiums, airports, hospitals, data centers, and civic buildings in projects across the United States and around the world.
CoreBrace designs custom buckling restrained braces around a steel core set inside a grout-filled steel tube. The assembly carries equal load in tension and compression, so frames stay stable through large seismic drifts.
Braces ship with bolted, welded, or pinned end connections and square, rectangular, or round casings. The reCOREder monitor tracks brace condition after an earthquake in new and existing buildings, and the detailing links directly into SDS2, Tekla, and Revit workflows.
Industry analysts size the buckling restrained brace market near 1.4 billion dollars in 2026, growing toward about 3.13 billion by 2035 at roughly 9 percent a year. A second estimate puts the market near 1.82 billion in 2025 rising toward 3.47 billion by 2034 at about 7.4 percent annually.
Demand tracks seismic steel construction, with CoreBrace braces installed at Salt Lake City airport, the San Francisco airport tower, SoFi Stadium, Louis Armstrong airport, hospitals, and data centers. Mass-timber frames and seismic retrofits open adjacent demand for the same damping technology.
CoreBrace competes through single-purpose focus on buckling restrained braces, built in its AISC-certified plant in the United States. More than 100 full-scale tests and patented strain-control details back its connection breadth, including single-diagonal layouts.
That testing depth lets designers use fewer and smaller braces per frame. The reCOREder post-earthquake monitor and direct SDS2, Tekla, and Revit integrations extend the same focus into inspection and detailing speed.