In 1953, Gatti was asked to estimate a detailing price for a bid to reconstruct the Third Avenue swing span over the Harlem River in New York City. "Being 20 years old and capable of doing anything, including scaling tall buildings, I responded with, 'Of course,'" he recalled in a 2006 essay in Modern Steel Construction. After it won the bid, that company asked him to start a bridge detailing department--a field that was, by Gatti's own admission, absolutely foreign to him at the time. 

"When you are thrown in the middle of a lake, you learn to swim quickly or drown," he said. "I avoided drowning by hiring some capable steel detailers and learning from them as fast as I could."

The American Institute of Steel Construction is seeking nominations for the prestigious T.R. Higgins Lectureship Award, which recognizes an innovative lecturer/author whose outstanding technical writing constitutes a ground-breaking addition to engineering literature on fabricated structural steel.

In addition to taking home a $15,000 cash prize, the T.R. Higgins Lectureship Award winner will present a keynote address at the 2023 NASCC: The Steel Conference in Charlotte, N.C., April 12 to 14. The winner will also present his/her work, upon request, at various prestigious professional events throughout the year.

AISC Seismic Provisions for Structural Steel Buildings (AISC 341) apply to the design, fabrication, and erection of structural steel and composite steel and concrete seismic force-resisting systems. Table D1.1a is available for public comment from May 13 to June 12, 2022.