An infographic by High Steel Structures, LLC (an AISC/NSBA member and AISC certified fabricator) showcases the company’s work on the new Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge, which replaces the Tappan Zee Bridge across the Hudson River north of New York City. The 3.1-mile-long, $3.98 billion crossing is the largest active bridge project in the nation and a testament to the work and capabilities of America’s steel fabricators, mills and constructors.

The National Steel Bridge Alliance (NSBA) is accepting entries for the 2018 Prize Bridge Competition. Held biennially, the competition honors significant and innovative steel bridges constructed in the U.S.

Congratulations to our winners! They are: Derek Hoffman, a detailer/designer with SWF Industrial, Inc., Wrightsville, Pa.; Nep Viajar, a civil/structural engineer at Fluor Corp., Houston; and Miguel A Dodes Traian, an engineering manager at ENAS.

The bipartisan Congressional Steel Caucus announced yesterday that representatives Rick Crawford (R-AR) and Mike Bost (R-IL) will lead the caucus as co-chairmen. Representative Pete Visclosky (D-IN) will continue to serve as vice chairman of the caucus, which was founded in the early 1970s to promote the health of the domestic steel industry and its workforce.

As part of AISC’s mission to facilitate and disseminate useful and factual information on the design and construction of buildings and bridges, the Institute has produced a series of white papers exploring important issues and refuting incorrect or misleading information disseminated by others. 

AISC presented members of the project team of the Antony Gormley Sculpture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), with the 2017 IDEAS2 Award for excellence in structural steel design during a ceremony conducted at the sculpture on Friday.

A new documentary, Bridge Brothers, explores the lives of the men and women who paint America’s bridges and illuminates their important role in preserving these massive structures. 

An article posted to Chicago.Curbed.com this week features a photo of 11 members of the Chicago #1 local ironworkers recreating the iconic 20th century image Lunch atop a Skycraper by posing for lunch on a steel beam dangling hundreds of feet above the “Loop” central business district.

Watch as New York’s Tappan Zee Bridge replacement (officially renamed the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge) takes shape in this new time-lapse video, covering four years of construction in just two minutes and the opening of its first span to traffic in August.

Attention college and university faculty: Registration is open for the 2017-2018 Steel Design Student Competition. 

Kloeckner Metals Corporation, one of the largest producer-independent distributors of steel and metal products in the U.S. (and an AISC member), opened the doors to its newly expanded Greenville, S.C., plant yesterday. The addition encompasses a 50,000-sq.-ft bay with 43-ton cranes and a new, highly automated slitting line for processing advanced high-strength steels and aluminum.

The Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC) desired a headquarters building designed to not only provide office space, but to also serve as an educational tool for sustainable technologies. HARC leadership worked with Walter P Moore and their director of sustainable design, Dirk Kestner, to perform a whole-building life-cycle assessment (LCA) to evaluate multiple structural systems from the very outset of the building design process—and a steel frame with a minimized amount of concrete was proven to reduce carbon emissions.

A 10-ft-tall steel sculpture was erected at Drexel University in Philadelphia on SteelDay, September 15. It joins the more than 170 AISC steel sculptures located on university and college campuses across the country (and even around the world!) that are designed as a teaching tool to give students a visual understanding of steel framing and steel connections. 

Robert J. Connor, a professor with the Purdue University School of Civil Engineering and director of the school's S-BRITE Center, has been selected as the winner of the 2018 AISC T.R. Higgins Lectureship Award.

Modular steel-plate composite (SC) walls are improving overall schedule and quality in safety-related nuclear structures, and building designers now have a comprehensive resource to facilitate their design with AISC’s Design Guide 32: Design of Modular Steel-Plate Composite Walls for Safety-Related Nuclear Facilities. 

The Steel Joist Institute is presenting a webinar, “Evaluation and Modification of Open Web Steel Joists and Joist Girders,” on Wednesday, October 18, from 3 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. (ET), followed by a 15-minute Q&A session.

A new steel-concrete composite high-rise core wall system is revolutionizing the design and construction of tall buildings. 

The structural design team for SFMOMA’s new addition got creative with steel to accommodate tight building foundation and footprint parameters.

The manufacturing industry’s sixth annual national Manufacturing Day is tomorrow, October 6. American manufacturers and partners are hosting more than 2,500 events meant to celebrate modern manufacturing and educate and inspire future generations to pursue careers in manufacturing and engineering.

There’s still time to enter your steel-framed building projects in the 2018 IDEAS² Awards competition! The deadline for entries has been extended to Friday, October 13.

Seventy percent of construction firms report they are having a hard time filling hourly craft positions that represent the bulk of the construction workforce, according to the results of an industry-wide survey released by Autodesk (an AISC member) and the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC).

The fourth 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.