January 10, 2025

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CHICAGO - Registration is now open for a one-of-a-kind event for any architect who designs in steel--anyone who’s looking for ingenious solutions to tough challenges, need-to-know designs, and the innovations that will define a greener, safer, more beautiful future.

Architecture in Steel, incorporated into NASCC: The Steel Conference, takes place April 2 in Louisville, Ky., and architects can save more than $500 off the regular registration price.

Architecture in Steel combines insightful education sessions--and up to 12 hours of AIA continuing education credit--with networking that’s just not possible anywhere else.

“Architects know the engineers they work with. They may know the general contractor. But they’ve probably never met a steel fabricator or steel erector, and they’ve never been able to talk with all of those people in one place,” said American Institute of Steel Construction Director of Architecture Nima Balasubramanian, AIA, NOMA.

AISC’s Steel Conference is the only place those industries come together, and those conversations give architects a holistic understanding of the whole process--from brainstorming through construction. It’s real-world information that applies to projects of all sizes and scopes.”

This year, the Steel Conference (which continues through April 4) features more than 70 sessions of interest to architects, including:

• Architecturally Exposed Structural Steel: Best Practices for Clear Communication
• Designing with Steel: 45 Proven Cost-Saving Strategies for Architects
• Building Sustainably with Steel: A Holistic Approach to Life Cycle Assessment
• Resilient and Sustainable Structures
• 3D printed Pedestrian Steel Bridge
• Ethics in Negotiation: Crafting a Path of Integrity in the Art of Negotiation
• Pursuit of Net-Zero: Design Strategies to Leverage Structural Steel to Reduce Embodied Carbon
• A Landmark Case Study on Steel Reuse: the Boulder Community Hospital
• Embodied Carbon of Construction Materials: What's In the Numbers
• Who is Responsible for That? (Or What the AISC Code of Standard Practice has to Say)

AISC is offering a special rate for architects: just $80 for access to all 270+ educational sessions, networking receptions, lunches, exhibition spaces packed with more than 300 innovations, and an exclusive distillery tour (it’s Louisville, after all!). Email architects@aisc.org to take advantage of this offer.