Congratulations to our winner, Nep Viajar, a civil/structural engineer with Fluor Corp. in Houston!

The AU 2014 Conference is coming up December 2-4 in Las Vegas. If you’re planning to be there, be sure to attend the “Future Trends in Steel Construction” session, presented by Luke Faulkner, AISC’s director of technology integration.

Dignitaries and workers gathered earlier this month at the construction site of the San Francisco Transbay Transit Center to celebrate the emergence of the first piece of structural steel visible above ground.

A new book titled, “A Whole New Engineer: The Coming Revolution in Engineering Education,” aims to inspire a revolution in engineering education.

Structural engineering firm Leslie E. Robertson Associates (LERA) was awarded the top prize in the 2014 CANstruction NYC Design/Build Competition. Their “Hungry to the Core” design was honored as the Juror’s Favorite, marking the third year in a row the firm has won the award.

The Steel Solutions Center is offering two new Steel Tools: the Structural Steel Detailing Tool and CraneBeam 2010. Both are available for free at www.steelTOOLs.org. 

Canam Steel Corporation (an AISC Member and AISC Certified fabricator), a subsidiary of Canam Group Inc., was awarded a contract of more than $200 million for products and services required for a new multi-purpose stadium in Atlanta, which will be the new home of the Falcons NFL football team.

The latest Architecture Billings Index (ABI) points to a heightened level of demand for design services, with all geographic regions and building project sectors showing positive conditions, according to the American Institute of Architects (AIA).

AISC is hosting a live webinar this Thursday, November 13, titled “Weld Inspection - What Matters and What Doesn’t.”

Nearly four decades after the first Washington Metro lines began operating in 1976, the first phase of the $6.8 billion Silver Line extension opened this past summer.

After reviewing and incorporating public comments, AISC has released the Program Requirements for AISC Certified Erectors of Structural Steel for the Erector Quality Management System (QMS) Certification Program. This is the governing program document and references the Standard for Structural Steel Erectors.

AISC member Lindapter has developed the Type AAF Girder Clamp, a new High Slip Resistance (HSR) clamp for connecting steel sections.

Chia-Ming Uang, Ph.D., professor of structural engineering at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) is the 2015 recipient of the prestigious T.R. Higgins Lectureship Award, presented annually by AISC.

One World Trade Center officially opens today, marking a major milestone in the history of New York City.

Congratulations to Tim Foy, E.I.T., structural engineer at Weidlinger Associates Inc., Boston, our Halloween Steel Structure Trivia winner!

The communities of Milton, Ky., and Madison, Ind., turned out on Tuesday as Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear and Indiana Governor Mike Pence, joined by other dignitaries, led a public dedication and ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Milton-Madison Bridge.

Architectural and engineering firms, structural steel companies, general contractors and owners are encouraged to enter their steel-framed building projects in the 2015 Innovative Design in Engineering and Architecture with Structural Steel (IDEAS²) Awards competition, conducted annually by AISC. These prestigious awards recognize outstanding achievement in engineering and architecture on structural steel projects across the country.

AISC’s Steel Solutions Center provides a free document titled “Innovative Structural Steel Systems,” highlighting the latest and greatest innovative steel systems.

Entries are being accepted through December 31 for the T.C. Graham Prize, an inaugural global contest sponsored by the Association for Iron & Steel Technology (AIST) that encourages new ideas for innovative steel applications. The winning entrant will receive $20,000.

Forty-five feet above ground, a steel and wood bridge connects MetroNational's new Treehouse to its headquarters building in Houston’s Memorial City.

Washington’s piecemeal approach to investing in the nation’s decaying transportation infrastructure costs the U.S. 900,000 jobs – more than 97,000 in manufacturing – and makes our country less competitive than its top trading partners, according to a new report by the Duke University’s Center on Globalization, Governance & Competitiveness (CGGC).

Casco Bay Steel Structures, Inc. (an AISC/NSBA Member and AISC Certified Fabricator) has won the inaugural Business of the Year Award from the city of South Portland, Maine.

SME Steel (an AISC Member and AISC Certified Fabricator) is reopening its Pocatello, Idaho, plant.

AISC is hosting a live webinar this Thursday, October 23, titled “Where Did That Force Come From? Combining Diaphragm and Frame Forces.”

Steel construction is underway at Rogers Place, a $480-million multi-use arena in the heart of downtown Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

AISC is pleased to announce the election of Patrick F. Leonard, P.E., vice president of the Commercial Division at Oregon Iron Works, LLC, Clackamas, Ore., (an AISC Member and AISC Certified Fabricator) to its Board of Directors.

Mayor Emanuel, along with World Business Chicago, Chicago Federation of Labor and local business leaders, yesterday announced 1,000 Jobs for Chicagoland Manufacturing, an initiative in the Mayor’s 2015 Budget that will place workers in 1,000 open manufacturing jobs over the next year. The announcement was made at JMC Steel Group’s Chicago Atlas Tube plant (an AISC Member).

Composer and musician Joseph Bertolozzi’s public art project ‘Bridge Music,’ is a sound-art installation featuring New York’s Mid-Hudson Bridge as the instrument itself.

A supplement to the AISC Specification for Safety-Related Steel Structures for Nuclear Facilities (ANSI/AISC N690-12) is available for public review from October 10 to November 7, 2014. This is the second public review of this document, and includes only revisions made since the last public review held earlier this year.

Toronto’s Queen Richmond Centre West office tower continues to rise and defy gravity; with steel.

The Denver Union Station Transit Improvement Project has been bestowed with the Design Build Institute of America’s (DBIA) highest honor: Design-Build Project of the Year.

SteelDay isn’t quite over yet!

AISC and Saunders Construction, headquartered in Centennial, Colo., are hosting a special “SteelDay in October” presentation and site tour of downtown Denver’s new Triangle Building on October 16.

The Steel Joist Institute is hosting its final webinar of the year, titled “Bridging for Open Web Steel Joists.” It is being offered twice this fall: Thursday, October 16, 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (ET) and Thursday, November 13, 1 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. (ET).

The fourth quarter 2014 issue of Engineering Journal is now available in PDF format at www.aisc.org/ej. You can view, print and share the current digital edition.

837 Washington Street is a symbol of the ever-changing and ever-modernizing Meatpacking District in Manhattan.

The inaugural Great Chicago Fire Festival will light up the Loop tomorrow night with a spectacle of fire celebrating the city’s spirit of grit and renewal following the Great Fire of 1871.

Thousands of people attended dozens of free events around the country on September 19 in celebration of the structural steel industry’s sixth annual SteelDay, hosted by AISC and its members and partners.

Research and Markets, an international market research and market data source, has announced the availability of “Global Structural Steel Industry Report 2014,” an in-depth study on the current state of the global structural steel industry, published by QYresearch.

After the Society of Women Engineers was mentioned by John Oliver last week on his HBO talk show “Last Week Tonight,” the Chicago-based organization has received an impressive increase in donations and website visits, reports the Chicago Tribune.

Congratulations to our September Steel Structure Trivia winners!

Engineers around the world are mourning the loss of Dan Cuoco, former president and CEO of international engineering firm Thornton Tomasetti. He passed away on Sunday at the age of 68.

A free new document titled “Skewed and Curved Steel I-Girder Bridge Fit,” developed by the NSBA Technical Subcommittee, provides designers with guidance on determining the appropriate fit for skewed and curved steel I-girder bridges.

Ritner Steel, Inc. in Carlisle, Penn. (an AISC member/AISC certified fabricator), has received official certification from the Women’s Business Enterprise Council PA-DE-sNJ.

Le-Wu Lu, who gained international renown for his research into the strength and behavior of building structures during a Lehigh University career that spanned six decades, died July 27 at the age of 81.

Today marks the structural steel industry’s sixth annual SteelDay! And dozens of events are taking place throughout the country to celebrate. Since its inception, SteelDay has drawn in tens of thousands of design and construction professionals and students who take the day to see the industry at work by visiting structural steel facilities and job sites, attending presentations and joining networking events.

Fourteen sculptures were entered into this year’s SteelDay Sculpture Competition for a chance to be one of five finalists to have their creation on display at the 2015 NASCC: The Steel Conference, March 25-27 in Nashville, Tenn. There, the ultimate winner will be chosen by attendees. Congratulations to the five finalists headed to NASCC!

The Association of Women in the Metal Industries (AWMI) Chicago chapter is set to host the 31st Annual Industry Dinner and Awards Banquet tonight at the Palmer House Hilton in downtown Chicago. Charles “Chuck” Schmitt, president of AISC member SSAB Americas, will provide insight on the technical advancements of high-strength steels.

AISC member FabSuite, LLC has released the SteelXML schema (allowing for a fully electronic RFQ exchange) for public beta testing.

The National Steel Bridge Alliance (NSBA) welcomes Matt Shergalis as its new marketing manager. In this position, he is responsible for providing strategic leadership in NSBA’s efforts to build market share for steel bridges in the U.S. 

A student-professor team at George Mason University’s Volgenau School of Engineering proves that do-it-yourself 3D printing is a thing of the present.