FEATURES

28   Stoked for Steel
By Patrick Engel
AISC’s 15th annual SteelDays offers enticing options for exploring the dynamic U.S. structural steel industry.

32   City Center Connector
By Travis Butz, PE, and John Shanks, PE
An affordable, efficient, and minimally disruptive steel bridge is a new link between a downtown area with three stadiums and a busy bike trail.

38   Bridge Brilliance
By Ben Szymanski, PE, and Jessica Venuti, PE
An interstate exit bridge widening project showed off fit-up creativity and included a clever geometry control system.

44   Press Forward
By Russ Renner, SE, PE
The durability and speed of tub girders made them the best choice to replace a concrete short-span bridge in Illinois.

50   Critical Crossing
By Patrick Engel
NSBA and Bridges to Prosperity teamed up for a third trip to rural Rwanda to build a steel bridge that will save lives.

56   Workforce Development Win
By Patrick Engel
The Fabricator Education Training Program is AISC’s most ambitious and thorough effort yet toward improving talent recruitment and retention.

COLUMNS

SteelWise
16   Bridge Resource Central
By Brandon Chavel, PE, PhD
Creating efficient and economical steel bridges is easy with NSBA’s extensive collection of free online resources.

Field Notes
20   Fluent in Bridges
Interview by Geoff Weisenberger
Heather Gilmer studied linguistics before finding her way to her original engineering passion: bridges. Combining them has led to 20-plus years in fabrication quality management and specification writing.

Business Issues
24   Attesting to AI
By Daniel Kamau, PEng, and Grayson Ingram, PhD
Fabricators discuss how implementing AI has improved productivity and share their experiences working with steel-specific AI.