Former Wiss, Janney Elstner principal tackled structural challenges from material deterioration to brittle fractures and collapses of steel buildings and bridges.
SpeedCore leads the way in the American Institute of Steel Construction's Need for Speed campaign, which also includes SpeedFloor, SpeedConnection and speedier simple bridges.
Using 80-ksi steel in upper perimeter columns—a first in the U.S.—helped the design team reduce the steel by almost 20% at 320 S. Canal, a 51-floor office tower under construction in Chicago’s Loop.
Performance-Based Structural Fire Design—to date the most in-depth guidance in the U.S. for the “proper execution and potential benefits of structural fire protection”—is available free-of-charge for download.
The American Institute of Steel Construction’s virtual steel conference—which replaced AISC’s annual gathering canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic—offered dozens of no-cost online professional development hours to its 9,146 registrants.
A steel structure formerly known as The Claw has been rebranded as the Ecosystem Exploration Craft Observatory, or EECO, now part of an estimated $35-million expansion of a Utah aquarium.
Environmental advocacy group Mighty Earth’s call to action to reduce the carbon footprint of structural-steel production is well intended but naive, say construction and steel-sector firms.