January 8, 2025

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CHICAGO - NASCC: The Steel Conference, the must-attend event for anyone involved in the design or construction of steel buildings and bridges, is coming to Louisville, Ky. in April--and registration is now open! 

“NASCC: The Steel Conference is the only place to talk with the professionals who work on a given project, from the design process to steel erection,” said Scott Melnick, senior vice president of the American Institute of Steel Construction and the conference’s main organizer. “Year after year, participants tell us that they made valuable connections they can’t have made anywhere else--and that attending the Steel Conference helped them do their jobs better.

That’s because we focus on giving actionable information participants can put into practice right away. Rather than issue a general call for papers, we talk to experts to find out what's important now and what’s on the horizon and invite the innovators changing the industry right now to speak at the Steel Conference.”

Those who register today get the best price on the industry’s top education event, featuring more than 250 sessions full of must-have practical information that you can implement as soon as you get home, exhibition spaces packed with more than 300 innovations you need to know about right now, and a chance to network with thousands of the nation’s preeminent designers, fabricators, erectors, and educators! The 2025 NASCC: The Steel Conference takes place from April 2 to 4; nearly 7,000 participants are expected to attend the main conference as well as specialty subconferences.

This year’s agenda

These are just a few of the more than 270 technical sessions at this year’s Steel Conference. Participants can earn up to 20.0 PDHs or 12 hours of AIA continuing professional education credit!

• Legal Lessons Learned with Building Information Modeling (BIM)
• Ethics in Negotiation: Crafting a Path of Integrity in the Art of Negotiation
• A Landmark Case Study on Steel Reuse: the Boulder Community Hospital
• Technology, Machine Learning, and AI in Steel: Current Applications and Future Innovations
• Women in Construction: How to Mentor Them and How They Mentor Others
• AISC Research: Innovations and Applications with Asymmetric Shapes
• Recommendations for Improving the Quality of Structural Engineering Design and Construction Documents
• Connection Design: The Checks Not To Forget!
• Practical Considerations for Shear Connections and the Single Angle Connection
• And much, much more!

The Steel Conference incorporates seven specialty conferences: the World Steel Bridge Symposium, QualityCon, Architecture in Steel, SafetyCon, the SSRC Annual Stability Conference, the NISD Conference on Steel Detailing, and the SEAoK Conference. See aisc.org/nascc for details about what those conferences have to offer this year.

Details

The Steel Conference takes place in Louisville, Ky., April 2 to 4. Registration starts at $415 for members--and the price increases each week, so hurry! You’ll also want to book early to take advantage of special rates at local hotels.

This year there’s a new discount program: Bring a Buddy. Members and non-members can save 10% of base registration if they bring an architect along with them.

AISC offers special rates for multiple registrants from the same firm, architects, recent graduates, educators, public agency employees, and professionals under the age of 30. Student members can attend the Steel Conference for free and may be eligible for help with travel costs.