CHICAGO - A concept that would use structural steel to reinvent the gas station experience for the EV age has won the American Institute of Steel Construction’s 2023 Forge Prize. LVL (Level) Studio collaborators Jeffrey Lee, Christopher Taurasi, and Lexi…
Code Update: The 2022 AISC Specification for Structural Steel Buildings
The latest edition of the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) flagship standard, the “2022 Specification for Structural Steel Buildings…
Cristopher Montalvo Receives Inaugural Reidar Bjorhovde Outstanding Young Professional Award
CHICAGO - The AISC Education Foundation is pleased to announce that Cristopher Montalvo will receive the first-ever Reidar Bjorhovde Outstanding Young…
FHWA Administrator Shailen Bhatt to Keynote NASCC: The Steel Conference
CHICAGO – The new bipartisan Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act (IIJA) is expected to increase infrastructure investment by nearly 40% – and this year’s NASCC: The Steel Conference keynoter will tell us what the Federal Highway Administration's…
130+ AISC Members Receive Safety Awards
CHICAGO – The American Institute of Steel Construction is pleased to honor more than 130 structural steel fabricators and erectors for their outstanding safety records in 2022. "The dedicated people who work in fabrication shops and on jobsites across the…
AISC Releases Design Guide about Revolutionary SpeedCore System
CHICAGO - The American Institute of Steel Construction has added a new design guide to its library, and it’s all about speed! Design Guide 38, SpeedCore Systems for Steel Structures gives designers everything they need to take advantage of the nonproprietary…
AISC Releases New Version of Specification for Structural Steel Buildings (ANSI/AISC 360-22)
CHICAGO - The latest version of the American Institute of Steel Construction’s flagship standard, the Specification for Structural Steel Buildings (ANSI/AISC 360-22), is now available at aisc.org/2022spec. This document supersedes ANSI/AISC 360-16, and it…
10 Stunning Projects Win Structural Steel Industry Design Awards
CHICAGO - The jury has spoken, and 10 projects across the country have won 2023 Innovative Design in Engineering and Architecture with Structural Steel (IDEAS²) Awards! These awards, presented annually by the American Institute of Steel Construction,…
NSBA/Modjeski and Masters Release Guide to Uncoated Weathering Steel: the Ultimate Economical, Low-Maintenance, Sustainable, Fast Bridge Material
CHICAGO - Since the 1960s, Departments of Transportation around the country have taken advantage of a remarkably sustainable, efficient, economical building material: uncoated weathering steel, or UWS. The new Uncoated Weathering Steel Reference Guide, developed…
AISC Releases Buy Clean Guidance to Help Legislators Maximize Structural Steel’s Unmatched Sustainability
CHICAGO - Hot-rolled structural steel is the greenest structural material on the market, thanks to its unsurpassed recycled content and ability to be recycled into new steel, over and over again, with no loss of properties. It's an obvious choice for the Buy…
