Last week, fabricators, the AEC community, and steel fans connected all across the United States to celebrate the strength and vitality of the structural steel industry. Get a glimpse of what your industry peers did at events outside your area--and even relive the fun of an event you attended--with these snapshots of some of our favorite moments from SteelDays 2023!

Tim Bradshaw of Owen Steel Company leads a tour through 3151 Market Street, a new life science building going up in West Philadelphia.

Before diving into hands-on welding demonstrations, an ironworker at Iron Workers Local 7 in South Boston shows participants the type of weld they will be performing.

Twenty four students participated in the annual student welding competition held at Puma Steel. Thanks to the event's very generous donors, $31,500 in scholarships were awarded that day! The scholarships will support the students as they attend welding programs at community colleges in Wyoming.

On their tour of Basden Steel’s Miscellaneous Steel Shop in Burleson, Texas, local career and technical education (CTE) high school students got to witness a variety of cutting-edge fabrication technologies. Here, a welder works on round bars for an architectural hand railing infill application.

Alex Azero of Severud Associates gives New York AEC professionals an inside look at how the project team behind the IDEAS² Award-winning Moynihan Train Hall transformed a century-old post office mail sorting room into the main concourse of a modern transportation hub.

University of Texas students participate in an erection demonstration at the Ironworkers Local 84 training center in Houston.

A University of California San Diego student (left) fist-bumps an Ironworkers Local 229 apprentice (right) after performing a particularly impressive weld at a hands-on ironworker training event.