The New NY Bridge over the Hudson River north of New York City is now fully drivable — several months before its official opening.

The Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) has released the second edition of its Tall Building Initiative Guidelines for Performance-Based Seismic Design of Tall Buildings. 

AISC is offering a three-part webinar series, “Welded Connections,” presented by well-known welding guru Duane Miller. The webinars will take place on June 29, July 6 and July 13 beginning at 1:30 p.m. ET. Each webinar is 1 hour and 40 minutes long.

AISC is pleased to announce three senior leadership promotions: Danielle Kleinhans, PE, PhD, to vice president of bridges and managing director of the National Steel Bridge Alliance (NSBA); John Cross, PE, to vice president of special projects; and Tabitha Stine, SE, PE, to vice president of market development.

University faculty are invited to apply for the 2018 AISC Milek Fellowship, a four-year fellowship given to a promising university faculty member to conduct structural steel research.

The Minnesota Vikings celebrated a major construction milestone on their new headquarters -- the Twin Cities Orthopedics Performance Center -- as the last piece of structural steel was installed last month. 

AISC is pleased to announce the appointment of two new members to its Board of Directors: Leon Topalian, executive vice president of Nucor Corporation; and Glenn R. Tabolt, PE, president of STS Steel, Inc., Schenectady, N.Y. 

AISC presented members of the project team of the Terminal East Infill at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Austin, Texas, with the 2017 IDEAS2 Award for excellence in steel-frame building design during ceremonies held at the terminal this morning.

The Steel Joist Institute (SJI) is offering a webinar, “Diaphragm Design That Makes Sense: How to Design and Specify Steel Deck by Representatives of the SDI” next Wednesday, June 21, from 3 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. (ET), followed by a 15-minute Q&A session.

AISC presented members of the project team of the Weber County Library Headquarters Branch in Roy, Utah, with the 2017 IDEAS² Award for excellence in steel-frame building design during ceremonies held at the library yesterday.

The student steel bridge team from École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS) in Montreal, Canada, were named champions of the 2017 ASCE/AISC National Student Steel Bridge Competition (NSSBC), hosted by Oregon State University in Corvallis, Ore., May 26-27. This is the second consecutive year ÉTS has won first place overall in this national intercollegiate competition that showcases excellence in civil engineering, innovation and teamwork.

AISC recently learned that OSHA intends to propose extending the July 1, 2017 date by which certain employers are required to electronically submit the information from their completed 2016 Form 300A. As a result, records will not be made public until they are submitted electronically. 

Soaring hollow steel writes a new chapter in the history of an architecturally significant high school in suburban Chicago, demonstrating a new take on the original Gothic style. 

The deadline to submit abstracts for the 2018 World Steel Bridge Symposium (WSBS) has been extended to next Friday, June 9. 

There’s still time to sign up for The Steel Tube Institute’s (STI) webinar, “HSS Connections: Splices, Bases & Braces,” taking place tomorrow from 11 a.m. to noon CT. 

Nominations are now being accepted 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 (or papers) is considered an outstanding contribution to engineering literature on fabricated structural steel. 

Congratulations to our winners! They are: Miguel Ángel Dodes Traian, engineering manager at ENAS; Jeff Rodeheaver, detailing manager at SWF Industrial, Inc., Wrightsville, Pa.; and Nep Viajar, a civil/structural engineer at Fluor Corp., Houston.  

AISC yesterday testified to the U.S. Commerce Department that foreign fabricated steel is eroding the competitiveness of U.S. steel fabrication, and imposing trade remedies is essential to preserve the capacity of U.S. steel fabricators to serve critical national defense and security needs.

The Steel Erectors Association of America (SEAA) has announced the winners of its annual Project of the Year awards for steel erection projects that topped out in 2016. 

Classes begin Monday, June 5, for AISC’s new Night School course “Fundamentals of Stability.” The course comprises eight, 90-minute live webinar sessions, which all take place on Monday evenings at 7 p.m. ET.

The American Galvanizers Association (AGA) has announced the winners of the 2017 Excellence in Hot-Dip Galvanizing Awards. 

AISC is seeking proposals for research projects that address the topics of eccentric column stiffeners, and bolts and welds in combination. 

Last night, AISC hosted 35 members (and 25 members remotely) of the Structural Engineers Association of Illinois’ Women in Structural Engineering group (SEAOI-WISE) for a networking reception and a webinar on gender equity and employee engagement in the structural engineering profession, presented by the Structural Engineering Engagement and Equity (SE3) Committee of the Structural Engineers Association of Northern California (SEAONC).  

On May 9, AISC sent a letter to President Trump, thanking him for his support of the domestic steel industry. 

A 123,000-sq.-ft multibuilding residential project is rising in downtown San Francisco, and more than 30 architects toured the construction site last week in an event hosted by AISC, AIA San Francisco and members of the project’s team.

Mark W. Trimble, PE, has joined AISC as its new vice president of certification. He’ll be managing the AISC Certification program, which certifies more than 1,400 fabricators, erectors and manufacturers of buildings, bridges, bridge components and hydraulic structures.

AISC has created two new web pages for educators and students. 

The Atlanta Braves and EarthCam have released a time-lapse video documenting the two-year construction of SunTrust Park. The 90-second video shows each stage of construction of the new ballpark, which hosted the Braves’ home opener last month.

A look at AISC’s annual list of winning projects that display Innovative Design in Engineering and Architecture with Structural Steel.

AISC is offering a webinar, “Design of Underhung Hoist and Crane Girders,” on Thursday, May 18, from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. CT.

A new book, The Structure of Design: An Engineer’s Extraordinary Life in Architecture, is a firsthand account of Leslie Earl Robertson’s storied career in structural engineering—which has generated some of the most innovative and formally daring buildings of the modern era—as well as his extensive collaborations with several titans of the practice.

Congratulations to our winners! They are: Jeff Rodeheaver, detailing manager at SWF Industrial, Inc., Wrightsville, Pa., and Nep Viajar, a civil/structural engineer at Fluor Corp., Houston.

The fifth annual Infrastructure Week will take place nationwide May 15-19. Businesses, labor organizations, elected officials and others will host more than 60 events across the country to raise awareness about the critical role of infrastructure in the U.S. economy and to advocate for more infrastructure investment from the government and private sector.

The 2017 AIA Convention and Expo is taking place tomorrow through Saturday in Orlando, Fla. Will you be there? If so, you can discover the sustainability and resiliency of structural steel by visiting AISC’s booth (#2733). And on Friday, AISC will be presenting on resilient structures in session EX405 in CE Theater D (booth #1019) in the expo hall from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.

The 11th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering is accepting paper abstracts for the conference to be held June 25-29, 2018 in downtown Los Angeles. 

Looking for efficient ways to take advantage of the various design aids in the AISC Steel Construction Manual? AISC is offering a webinar, “Secrets of the Manual,” this Thursday, April 27. 

The 2017 AISC Specification for Safety-Related Steel Structures for Nuclear Facilities is available for public review until May 22. 

Building designers now have a valuable resource for the design of castellated and cellular beams in AISC’s Design Guide 31: Castellated and Cellular Beam Design.

NSBA has released a new document, “Bolted Field Splices for Steel Bridge Flexural Members,” and a new version of its NSBA Splice design tool. 

Florida International University is hosting a free webinar, “PennDOT’s Rapid Bridge Replacement Project Utilizing Folded Steel Plate Girder Bridge,” this Thursday, April 20 at 1 p.m. ET.

The Salesforce Tower -- San Francisco’s tallest building and the second-tallest west of Chicago (behind the steel-framed Wilshire Grand in Los Angeles) -- topped out last week. 

The Steel Erectors Association of America (SEAA) recently announced that its network of Ironworker Training Units has expanded from coast to coast with the addition of Orland, Calif.-based Rackley Company, Inc. (an AISC member and certified erector).

The National Institute of Building Sciences’ Building Seismic Safety Council (BSSC) is hosting a free webinar, “Design of Seismic Force-Resisting Systems in Steel-Framed Buildings,” on Friday, April 21 from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. ET. 

The National Steel Bridge Alliance (NSBA) invites anyone involved in steel bridge research, design or construction to submit an abstract for consideration to present at the 2018 World Steel Bridge Symposium (WSBS), which will be held in conjunction with NASCC: The Steel Conference, April 11-13 in Baltimore. 

A recent article in the New York Daily News details how buying foreign steel, often from China and usually subisidized by the Chinese government, is hurting the U.S. steel industry, reducing American jobs, and ultimately reducing the amount of taxes the government collects. 

The winning sculpture in AISC’s sixth annual Steel Sculpture Competition is “Man of Steel,” designed and fabricated by Victor Velazquez, an employee with Universal Steel of North Carolina (an AISC member and certified fabricator). 

The second quarter 2017 issue of AISC’s Engineering Journal is now available at www.aisc.org/ej. You can view, download and print the current digital edition.

April is National Welding Month, an annual event organized by the American Welding Society (AWS) to celebrate the welding industry through education, mentorship and recognition.  

AISC has issued new requirements for its Certified Building Fabricator Program and its new Hydraulic Steel Structures Program, which are now available at www.aisc.org/certification.

Have you visited Google’s homepage today? The doodle celebrates what would’ve been the 88th birthday of Fazlur Rahman Khan, the structural engineer and architect who was famous for pioneering tubular design in high-rise buildings.