Steel Construction and Products
Calling all emerging architects. Don’t miss out on your chance to enter the $20,000 Forge Prize....
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Inpro’s Fireline 140 fire barrier and Owens Corning’s Foamglas cellular glass insulation are amon...
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Building Design+Construction readers and editors select their top building products for...
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Jin Young Song, AIA, Assistant Professor at University at Buffalo, and Founder of DIOINNO Architecture PLLC, demonstrates his SIMS (Snap-Interlock Module System) design concept, which took the $20,000 Grand Prize in the 2019 Forge Prize competition. Photo courtesy AISC
This annual steel design competition will recognize three Finalists ($10,000 each) and one Grand...
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The Heights & Areas Calculator, developed by the International Code Council, the American Wood Council, and WoodWorks, is based on provisions in the 2006 to 2015 editions of the International Building Code.
A free app that calculates the maximum allowable heights and areas for buildings of various occup...
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New AISC "Designing with Structural Steel - A Guide for Architects"
A "baker's dozen" of structural steel projects have earned recognition in the 2019 Innovative Des...
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In downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, a steel and glass tower gives rise to a dramatic cantile...
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Independent studies suggest the construction industry could lose nearly 30,000 jobs as a result o...
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A blend of custom designed elements along with standard rolled sections worked together to complete the architectural expression of the daylit terminal and the open and airy concourse. Photo credit: Tim Griffith
The facility boasts a new landside Central Terminal and the new 19-gate airside Concourse B, whic...
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AESS steel columns at Lee Hall III, Clemson University, designed by Thomas Phifer and Partners with McMillan Pazdan Smith Architecture and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Photo: Courtesy SOM / Scott Frances Photography
Advances in R&D are fostering new forms of structural and aesthetic steel.
Lamar Station Classroom for Urban Farming, Lakewood, Colo. Photo: Jesse Kuroiwa
The annual awards program, sponsored by the American Institute of Steel Construction, honors the...
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The American Institute of Steel Construction contends that the steel industry is a “world leader”...
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Steel also has certain advantageous traits in terms of economics and sustainability, says Michael...
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Rendering courtesy of Forbes Massie/ Heatherwick Studio
The installation is designed by British architect Thomas Heatherwick and will be the centerpiece...
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The Rutgers University School of Business won a National Award for Projects $15 million to $75 million in the 2016 IDEAS2 awards
Held annually by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), the IDEAS2 award...
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Winter Construction is part of the Star family, and their new 8300 sf brewery and tasting room is...
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Not having a complete understanding of what the steel line is can affect the building process, ca...
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Photo: Alan Lam/Creative Commons.
Updates 2007 edition; includes five comprehensive design examples.
Rendering © Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
The hat truss-supported office tower was topped off in January, rising 25 stories above the Salt...
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The updated version of the 2016 AISC Code of Standard Practice is now available.
American Institute of Steel Construction seeks input on standard update.
The University of Oregon's Hatfield-Dowlin Football Performance Center earned a Merit Award for the design and structure of the facility. Image: Jeremy Bittermann
Calatrava's soaring Innovation Science and Technology Building at Florida Polytechnic University...
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One challenge required onsite bending of CFA panels for the curved portion of the facility. Photo courtesy of Metl-Span.
The goal from the beginning was to construct an energy efficient building with insulated metal pa...
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Construction input prices were down in January, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Prices for other materials were also down on both a monthly and yearly basis.
The decline in oil and petroleum prices finally showed up in the produce price index data, accord...
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Photo: Thester11 via Wikimedia Commons
Research at Case Western Reserve University has found that buildings that rock during an earthqua...
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Two instructors and a doctoral student of the Graduate Institute of Ferrous Technology at Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea, make up the team behind the discovery. Photo: Graduate Institute of Ferrous Technology/Wikimedia Commons
The new alloy makes steel as strong as titanium.
Few colleges or universities have embraced prefabrication more wholeheartedly than Valparaiso (In...
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Demountable structural steel assemblies would be a greener way to make use of steel in the constr...
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