University faculty are invited to apply for the 2017 AISC Milek Fellowship, a four-year fellowship awarding $50,000 per year (for a total of $200,000) to a promising university faculty member to conduct structural steel research. In addition, the awarded faculty member will be recognized in MSC and receive complimentary registration to NASCC: The Steel Conference for the four years following their selection as a Milek Fellow.

AISC presented members of the project team of the Emerson College Los Angeles Center with the 2016 IDEAS² Award for excellence in steel-frame building design during ceremonies last week at the building. In recognition of its particular accomplishments in structural engineering, the project has been selected to receive the Presidential Award of Excellence in Engineering, the only project in the competition to be so honored. 

The Steel Joist Institute (SJI) has launched a Webinars On Demand program, allowing users free access to recorded videos of the organization’s monthly webinar series.

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

The second edition of AISC’s Design Guide 11: Floor Vibrations Due To Human Activity is now available. 

A time-lapse video illustrates the first five years of construction of a 1,976-ft steel arch bridge over the Willamette River near Portland, Ore. The project replaces the 90-year-old Sellwood Bridge with a span that is wider and more seismically sound.

Construction of the U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis is substantially complete and the building is ready for business. Finished six weeks ahead of schedule, the new stadium and home of the Minnesota Vikings features a bold design and new fan-friendly elements and technology, including a structural steel roof clad with a transparent ethylene-tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) system that will provide fans with an outdoor feel in a climate-controlled environment. 

AISC presented members of the project team of the National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion with the 2016 IDEAS² Award for excellence in steel-frame building design during ceremonies last week at the pavilion. The project was lauded for its engineering and architectural achievements in its use of structural steel.  

The New NY Bridge project continues to move forward (and upward) in building the twin-span replacement for the 3-mi.-long Tappan Zee Bridge across the Hudson River.

Explore New York’s Empire State Building in a whole new way with the Empire State Building Observatory Experience App, which guides visitors through the icon's extraordinary exhibits and views with in-depth information on the steel-framed tower's history. 

When ironworkers working on a St. Louis medical campus renewal project noticed they had little admirers waving at them from the windows of the existing children’s hospital next door, they came together to routinely wave to the kids and write a special message for one young girl in particular who caught their attention. 

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has honored Matthew R. Eatherton, Ph.D., P.E., S.E., Xiang Ma, Helmut Krawinkler, Ph.D., Gregory G. Deierlein, P.E., and Jerome F. Hajjar, Ph.D., P.E., with the 2016 Moisseiff Award for their paper, Quasi-Static Cyclic Behavior of Controlled Rocking Steel Frames, published in the November 2014 Journal of Structural Engineering. 

A team of civil engineering students from École de technologie supérieure (ETS), Montreal, Canada, are the overall winners of the 2016 ASCE/AISC National Student Steel Bridge Competition (NSSBC), hosted by Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, May 27-28. 

In Sturgeon Bay, Wis., a grassroots music festival called Steel Bridge Songfest benefits the local music scene and supports the preservation of the city’s historic Michigan Street Bridge (also known as the Sturgeon Bay Bridge), a veteran’s memorial dating back to 1931 that locals lovingly refer to as the Steel Bridge. 

Autodesk (an AISC Member) is accepting entries through June 30 for its 2016 AEC Excellence Awards. First introduced in 2012 to recognize innovative use of BIM in infrastructure projects, this year’s competition also includes building and construction categories.

Ten schools have been awarded with 2016 Spark Something Great educational grants from Hypertherm (an AISC Member). Now in its second year, the program aims to ensure the next generation of welders and metal fabricators know how to properly cut and gouge with plasma by making the newest generation of cutting equipment and standardized instruction available to schools.

Bridge industry professionals are invited to attend AASHTO’s 2016 Bridges and Structures Annual Meeting, which will be held in Minneapolis June 26-30.

Are you properly specifying materials? Find out by joining AISC's free webinar on Thursday, June 16. 

Steel Conference attendees had the opportunity to experience a day in the life of an ironworker at the Ironworkers Local Union 808 facility in Orlando, Fla. 

More than a million images make up a time-lapse video of the construction of the World Trade Center Transportation Hub, also known as the Oculus, in New York City. The two-minute movie capturing the five years of work on site was released by EarthCam last week in honor of the project’s ribbon cutting ceremony on May 26. 

Architectural and engineering firms, structural steel companies, general contractors and owners are encouraged to enter their steel-framed building projects in the 2017 Innovative Design in Engineering and Architecture with Structural Steel (IDEAS2) Awards competition. Entries are now being accepted at www.aisc.org/ideas2 through August 26, 2016.