The Steel Joist Institute is accepting entries until February 10, 2017 for its annual Design Awards.

To assist engineers in learning how to use the relatively new direct analysis method of design, AISC is offering a webinar, “The Direct Analysis Method - Application and Examples,” next Thursday, December 8. 

Vincent J. DeSimone, founder and chairman of New York–based DeSimone Consulting Engineers, passed away November 16 following a battle with cancer. He was 78 years old. 

AISC presented members of the project team of the Nu Skin Innovation Center, Provo, Utah, with the 2016 IDEAS² Award for excellence in steel-frame building design during ceremonies held at the center last Thursday. 

30 Hudson Yards — a 90-story, steel-framed skyscraper slated to be the anchor of the new Hudson Yards mixed-use development in New York — is on the rise. 

New revisions to UL Design No. D982 will allow fire protection costs to be cut nearly in half compared with old unrestrained applications. While UL D982 originally only applied to composite construction with normal-weight concrete, these limitations have been discarded as a result of testing that UL performed for AISI and AISC. 

AISC presented members of the project team of the Mariposa Land Port of Entry border crossing, Nogales, Ariz., with the 2016 IDEAS² Award for excellence in steel-frame building design during a ceremony on Tuesday at Jones Studio architects’ new office in Tempe, Ariz. 

Students enrolled in the introduction to engineering class in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology have designed and constructed their own miniature bridges, which are currently on display for the public through November 16, then will be tested for strength.

Yesterday marked 100 years of service for Chicago’s Lake Street Bridge — the world’s first double-deck, double-leaf bascule bridge.

The new home of the Minnesota Vikings ushers in a new age of NFL stadiums with its steel-supported ETFE roof and giant operable wall panels.

AISC is accepting applications through December 1 for its David B. Ratterman Fast Start Scholarship program for the 2017-18 academic year. For the sixth straight year, the program will provide financial aid to college students whose parents are employed by an AISC member company. A total of $40,000 will be awarded.

The press-break tub girder system (PBTG) — a new technology for short-span steel bridge applications — developed by the Short Span Steel Bridge Alliance (SSSBA) in conjunction with West Virginia University and Marshall University, has evolved from a research project to a viable solution for short-span bridges. 

The 2016 version of the AISC standard, Prequalified Connections for Special and Intermediate Steel Moment Frames for Seismic Applications (ANSI/AISC 358-16) is now available for free downloading on the AISC website at www.aisc.org/aisc358.