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.