This year’s national SteelDay is scheduled for September 30, but construction of the new Marriott Marquis Chicago hotel is moving so quickly that the opportunity to see its steel framing can’t wait! So on Friday, August 12, you’re invited to attend a lunch presentation and tour of the project site.
Abstracts are being accepted through this Friday, August 5, for the 2017 SSRC Annual Stability Conference, which will be held March 21-24 in conjunction with NASCC: The Steel Conference at the Henry B. Gonzales Convention Center in San Antonio.
The Steel Market Development Institute, a business unit of the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), and AISC have partnered together with several industry organizations and academic institutions to establish the Steel Diaphragm Innovation Initiative (SDII), a multi-year effort to advance the seismic performance of steel floor and roof diaphragms utilized in structural steel buildings through better understanding of diaphragm-structure interaction, innovative design approaches, and new 3D modeling tools that provide enhanced capabilities to designers.
AISC is offering a four-part webinar series, “Basic Steel Design,” beginning this Thursday, August 4.
Congratulations to our winners! They are: Jeff Rodeheaver, detailing manager, and Matt Baldwin, project manager, both with SWF Industrial, Inc., Wrightsville, Pa., and Nep Viajar, a civil/structural engineer with Fluor Corp., Houston.
The Steel Market Development Institute (SMDI), a business unit of the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), has compiled a comprehensive list of industry-wide environmental product declarations (EPDs) for steel building products. These EPDs summarize the results of a life cycle assessment (LCA) for specific steel products in the construction industry to describe their potential environmental impacts.
Five of the leading American steel trade associations today released a report documenting that rapid growth of China’s steel industry has been fueled by government subsidies and other market-distorting policies. The report was released by the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), the Steel Manufacturers Association (SMA), the Committee on Pipe and Tube Imports (CPTI), the Specialty Steel Industry of North America (SSINA) and the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC).
Arthur P. Arndt, former vice president for AISC member/certified erector American Bridge Company, passed away last month in Dublin, Ohio, at the age of 91.
Recent drone and aerial footage shows the progress being made for the East End Crossing of the Ohio River Bridges Project between Kentucky and Indiana.
The Steel Erectors Association of America (SEAA) has announced the winners of its annual Project of the Year competition. Projects are recognized for their complexity, and companies are awarded for overcoming challenges while maintaining safe work standards.
AISC member/certified fabricator High Steel Structures, Lancaster, Pa., hosted a five-day camp last week at the Lancaster Science Factory for kids in grades 4 through 8 to explore bridge design and construction.
If you work for an AISC-member fabricator and have recently moved into or anticipate moving into a senior management position during the next few years, the Future Leaders Ideas Lab is the event for you!
The new Ramp ES is one of six flyover bridge structures currently being constructed at the I-55 and Lake Shore Drive (LSD) Interchange in Chicago as part of a $135 million improvement project.
CRU Group, a privately owned business intelligence company, has slated their North American Steel Conference for October 3-5 in downtown Chicago. AISC Vice President John Cross is scheduled to speak at the event, which provides access to leading steel market and price information and outlooks for U.S. steel and raw materials.
Vulcraft/Verco Group, a division of AISC-member Nucor Corporation, is accepting entries for its fourth annual NuHeights Design Awards competition. The program recognizes excellence and quality in steel building design and construction.
Join AISC’s “Drawing and Specification Requirements for Seismic Design” webinar next Thursday, July 21, beginning at 12:30 p.m. (CT).
AISC-member Alro Steel has opened an 80,000-sq.-ft service center facility in Tulsa, Okla. The building replaces a 9,000-sq.-ft facility that Alro operated in Tulsa since 1999. The larger footprint will allow Alro to process additional grades and sizes of steel.
The final steel beam was lifted last month to the top of SunTrust Park, completing a topping out ceremony that Atlanta Braves chairman and CEO Terry McGuirk called a “major milestone” in the building of the ballpark as the Braves prepare to move into their new home for the start of the 2017 MLB season.
Charles J. Carter, SE, PE, PhD, has been named the new president of the American Institute of Steel Construction. Previously, Carter was Vice President and Chief Structural Engineer for AISC.
The third-quarter 2016 issue of AISC’s Engineering Journal is now available at www.aisc.org/ej. You can view, download and print the current digital edition.
Former Nucor CEO Dan DiMicco is now an adviser to Donald Trump’s campaign.
Arizona State's new law school in downtown Phoenix continues the legacy of the Supreme Court justice who cut her legal teeth there.
University faculty are invited to apply for the 2017 AISC Milek Fellowship, a four-year fellowship awarding $50,000 per year (for a total of $200,000) to a promising university faculty member to conduct structural steel research. In addition, the awarded faculty member will be recognized in MSC and receive complimentary registration to NASCC: The Steel Conference for the four years following their selection as a Milek Fellow.
AISC presented members of the project team of the Emerson College Los Angeles Center with the 2016 IDEAS2 Award for excellence in steel-frame building design during ceremonies last week at the building. In recognition of its particular accomplishments in structural engineering, the project has been selected to receive the Presidential Award of Excellence in Engineering, the only project in the competition to be so honored.
The Steel Joist Institute (SJI) has launched a Webinars On Demand program, allowing users free access to recorded videos of the organization’s monthly webinar series.
Congratulations to our winners! They are: Jeff Rodeheaver, detailing manager with SWF Industrial, Inc., Wrightsville, Pa.; and Nep Viajar, a civil/structural engineer with Fluor Corp., Houston.
The second edition of AISC’s Design Guide 11: Floor Vibrations Due To Human Activity is now available.
A time-lapse video illustrates the first five years of construction of a 1,976-ft steel arch bridge over the Willamette River near Portland, Ore. The project replaces the 90-year-old Sellwood Bridge with a span that is wider and more seismically sound.
Construction of the U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis is substantially complete and the building is ready for business. Finished six weeks ahead of schedule, the new stadium and home of the Minnesota Vikings features a bold design and new fan-friendly elements and technology, including a structural steel roof clad with a transparent ethylene-tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) system that will provide fans with an outdoor feel in a climate-controlled environment.
AISC presented members of the project team of the National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion with the 2016 IDEAS2 Award for excellence in steel-frame building design during ceremonies last week at the pavilion. The project was lauded for its engineering and architectural achievements in its use of structural steel.
The New NY Bridge project continues to move forward (and upward) in building the twin-span replacement for the 3-mi.-long Tappan Zee Bridge across the Hudson River.
Explore New York’s Empire State Building in a whole new way with the Empire State Building Observatory Experience App, which guides visitors through the icon's extraordinary exhibits and views with in-depth information on the steel-framed tower's history.
When ironworkers working on a St. Louis medical campus renewal project noticed they had little admirers waving at them from the windows of the existing children’s hospital next door, they came together to routinely wave to the kids and write a special message for one young girl in particular who caught their attention.
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has honored Matthew R. Eatherton, Ph.D., P.E., S.E., Xiang Ma, Helmut Krawinkler, Ph.D., Gregory G. Deierlein, P.E., and Jerome F. Hajjar, Ph.D., P.E., with the 2016 Moisseiff Award for their paper, Quasi-Static Cyclic Behavior of Controlled Rocking Steel Frames, published in the November 2014 Journal of Structural Engineering.
A team of civil engineering students from École de technologie supérieure (ETS), Montreal, Canada, are the overall winners of the 2016 ASCE/AISC National Student Steel Bridge Competition (NSSBC), hosted by Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, May 27-28.
In Sturgeon Bay, Wis., a grassroots music festival called Steel Bridge Songfest benefits the local music scene and supports the preservation of the city’s historic Michigan Street Bridge (also known as the Sturgeon Bay Bridge), a veteran’s memorial dating back to 1931 that locals lovingly refer to as the Steel Bridge.
Autodesk (an AISC Member) is accepting entries through June 30 for its 2016 AEC Excellence Awards. First introduced in 2012 to recognize innovative use of BIM in infrastructure projects, this year’s competition also includes building and construction categories.
Ten schools have been awarded with 2016 Spark Something Great educational grants from Hypertherm (an AISC Member). Now in its second year, the program aims to ensure the next generation of welders and metal fabricators know how to properly cut and gouge with plasma by making the newest generation of cutting equipment and standardized instruction available to schools.
Bridge industry professionals are invited to attend AASHTO’s 2016 Bridges and Structures Annual Meeting, which will be held in Minneapolis June 26-30.
Are you properly specifying materials? Find out by joining AISC's free webinar on Thursday, June 16.
Steel Conference attendees had the opportunity to experience a day in the life of an ironworker at the Ironworkers Local Union 808 facility in Orlando, Fla.
More than a million images make up a time-lapse video of the construction of the World Trade Center Transportation Hub, also known as the Oculus, in New York City. The two-minute movie capturing the five years of work on site was released by EarthCam last week in honor of the project’s ribbon cutting ceremony on May 26.
Architectural and engineering firms, structural steel companies, general contractors and owners are encouraged to enter their steel-framed building projects in the 2017 Innovative Design in Engineering and Architecture with Structural Steel (IDEAS2) Awards competition. Entries are now being accepted at www.aisc.org/ideas2 through August 26, 2016.
The Steel Tube Institute (STI) is hosting a webinar, “What Your Fabricator Wishes You Knew About HSS” this Thursday, June 2, from 11 a.m. to noon (CT).
The New York Times got it wrong. In the article, “Skyscraper at Trade Center Rises From the Inside Out” (May 25), reporter David W. Dunlap discusses why the contractor for the new 3 World Trade Center building pushed for a concrete core surrounded by steel framing rather than the more typical (for New York) steel core.
Are you ready to make your structural steel vision come to life? Then enter AISC’s sixth annual Steel Sculpture Competition! If you’re an AISC full or associate member, join this year’s competition and create your own innovative steel sculpture for a chance to have your company featured in MSC as well as receive a catered lunch!
Nominations are being accepted through August 1 for the prestigious T.R. Higgins Lectureship Award, which includes a $15,000 cash prize. Presented annually by AISC, the award recognizes a lecturer-author whose technical paper(s) are considered an outstanding contribution to engineering literature on fabricated structural steel.
The Board of Directors of the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) has elected John Ferriola, chairman, president and CEO of Nucor Corporation (an AISC Member), to serve as chairman of the Institute until May 2017.
A volunteer team facilitated by the National Steel Bridge Alliance (NSBA) has completed a steel cable suspension bridge in the hamlet of Lura in Churuquita Grande, Coclé, Panama, as part of a collaborative effort with Bridges to Prosperity (B2P), a nonprofit organization that builds footbridges in isolated communities across the world.
Metro-riding crowds have a new gateway to Universal Studios Hollywood via a signature pedestrian bridge.