Nearly two decades ago, David Zalesne left a successful legal career in Philadelphia to revive a steel fabrication shop in South Carolina--and he’s never looked back.
AISC sat down with Zalesne, president of Owen Steel Company and the 2023 recipient of the Robert P. Stupp Award for Leadership Excellence, to talk about his remarkable career in the steel fabrication industry.
Check out our full interview at aisc.org/fieldnotes to learn about what brought Zalesne into the steel fabrication industry, why he loves it, and his forecast for the future of American cities.