Today, AISC's membership represents more than 35,000 fabricators, service centers, producers, engineers, architects, developers, and product suppliers in the structural steel industry, as well as educators and the students who will literally build our future. 

Everything AISC does is intended to increase the use of domestically fabricated structural steel, and we couldn't do it without our members.

Members support many of the crucial services AISC provides to the industry as a whole, such as technical and conceptual assistance from our engineering staff at the Steel Solutions Center. Members empower us to make a difference in tomorrow's building codes, project specifications, and federal regulations and keep America's fabricated structural steel industry on the cutting edge.

CURRENT AISC PROJECTS SUPPORTED BY MEMBERSHIP DUES:

• National representation of our industry on governmental and environmental issues, including the promotion of steel's benefits in LEED projects and support for Buy America provisions, both for structures and infrastructure

• Targeted efforts to increase the use of structural steel in 15 key markets, with AISC Structural Steel Specialists on the ground to build relationships and educate architects, engineers, and other decision-makers on the benefits of using steel in their projects

• Research programs intended to improve steel codes and specifications, reduce the cost of steel construction, and improve the performance of steel buildings and bridges

• Development of the Steel Construction Manual, Code of Standard Practice, more than 30 design guides, and other technical resources to make it easier and more appealing for engineers to design with steel

• Development of EPD documents, which are critical for every fabricator involved in projects with green requirements

• National Steel Bridge Alliance initiatives, such as working with state DOTs and AASHTO to develop governing design manuals that ensure economical design and detailing practices, supported by NSBA regional staff strategically located to develop relationships and serve as technical assistants, steel bridge educators and, at times, facilitators between the design community and the fabrication community

• University education programs, which engage and educate nearly 10,000 future designers every year on the benefits of structural steel through discounted prices on manuals, complimentary passes to NASCC: The Steel Conference, scholarships, and the annual Student Steel Bridge Competition, in which more than 1,000 engineering students compete to design, fabricate, and build 1:10 scale bridges

• Award programs that recognize the people and projects that exemplify the innovation that’s going on every day in our industry

• SteelDay, a national celebration of American steel and the people who make it

• Modern Steel Construction, AISC's flagship magazine that showcases the best of our industry, and Engineering Journal, which features the latest research from leading institutions and great minds