Congratulations to our October trivia winner, Nep Viajar, a civil/structural engineer with Fluor Corp. in Houston!
Today marks the golden anniversary of St. Louis’ Gateway Arch!
A total of $40,000 in scholarships will be awarded to freshman or sophomore students who are enrolled in a two-year or four-year college and are relatives of an AISC Member company employee.
A massive steel spine is curving through downtown Chicago, which will support the Navy Pier Flyover, an elevated pedestrian path that will extend from south of the Chicago River Bridge to Jane Addams Park just west of Navy Pier.
The Steel Tube Institute (STI) is hosting a webinar, “HSS-to-HSS and HSS Bracing Connections,” next Thursday, November 5, from 11 a.m. to noon (CT).
Tomorrow marks 95 years of service for Chicago’s Franklin Street Bridge!
Learn how you can take action to urge Congress to enact a long-term transportation bill.
Organizers of the Pacific Structural Steel Conference (PSSC) are now accepting abstracts for papers to be presented at the 2016 conference in Shanghai, China, from October 26-28. Abstracts will be accepted until January 15, 2016.
There’s still time to sign up for AISC’s free, half-day workshop on “Maximizing the Value of Your Model” this Thursday, October 22, in Houston.
Installation of the Light Column — the central feature of San Francisco’s new 1.5 million-sq.-ft Transbay Transit Center — is complete.
The current draft of the 2016 AISC Code of Standard Practice (AISC 303-16) is now available for public review until November 15, 2015; this is an update of the 2010 version of the Code.
Maria Garlock, P.E., Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University, is the 2016 recipient of the prestigious T.R. Higgins Lectureship Award, which is presented annually by AISC.
AISC and the Steel Joist Institute (SJI) are hosting a two-part webinar series, “Evaluation and Modification of Open Web Steel Joists and Joist Girders.” Part one in the series will take place next Wednesday, October 21, from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. (CT).
Atorod Azizinamini, P.E., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Florida International University’s College of Engineering and Computing, has been named a 2015 White House Transportation Champion of Change.
Construction of New York’s new Tappan Zee Bridge has reached the halfway mark. The twin-span bridge’s eight towers are rising toward their ultimate height of more than 100 ft, and big blue steel is becoming more visible as workers continue to install about 130 steel girder assemblies over the Hudson River.
The Fastener Training Institute is hosting a 90-minute webinar titled “Structural Bolting – Including New Specifications and Changes” next Friday, October 16, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (PT).
3-2-1...Liftoff! A 200-ft, 20-story steel tower is rising at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Crew Access Tower will give astronauts and support teams access to board rockets to be launched for flight tests and missions to the International Space Station.
If you’re a steel bridge professional interested in exchanging ideas with others in the industry, you should consider attending the next AASHTO/NSBA Steel Bridge Collaboration meeting, to be held in Denver, November 18-20 at the Crowne Plaza Denver Downtown.
The fourth quarter 2015 issue of AISC’s Engineering Journal is now available at www.aisc.org/ej. You can view, download and print the current digital edition.
An 11-story cube of shimmering glass will soon float over the streets of downtown Los Angeles—and it isn’t a Hollywood special effect.
Thousands of people gained special access to today’s innovations and accomplishments of the U.S. structural steel industry in celebration of the seventh annual SteelDay on September 25, hosted by AISC and its members and partners. If you weren’t able to join in the festivities, you can still take advantage of SteelDay’s online offerings made available by AISC.