American Institute of Steel Construction

⚠️ Deadline alert! ⚠️ Your gift to the AISC Education Foundation will go twice as far if you donate by December 31. Donors like you make it possible for the Education Foundation to: 🎓 support future change-makers with over $350,000 in scholarships. 🤝 connect students and educators with industry professionals throughout the year. 📋 fund research opportunities for undergraduates. 🏗️ bring students to see structural steel in the real world. 🌎 and much more! Gifts are 100% tax deductible, and every penny supports students, educators, and education programs. Make a donation today at aisc.org/giving.

Steel and self-expression go hand-in-hand in a new Nashville sculpture designed by artist Blessing Hancock. Loqui, a 32-ft by 32-ft illuminated stainless steel sculpture, is adorned with words and phrases from several hundred people--ages 5 to 85--from the Nashville community. See how many of these expressions you can find when you assemble our puzzle of the week at aisc.org/puzzles! Visit aisc.org/cool-24 to learn more about this project and other fascinating smaller-scale projects featured in Modern Steel Construction’s What’s Cool in Steel.

How can your company access top-tier talent from local career and technical education (CTE) programs? Build relationships! Modern Steel Construction got the scoop on starting and growing relationships from Ohio Gratings, Inc.'s Shaun Eller--an expert who, over the course of four years, has established partnerships with 22 high schools, seven career centers, and four local colleges! Visit https://lnkd.in/d5NgNwXF to start putting Eller’s relationship building advice to work in your business.

Congratulations to the lucky people who won Steel Construction Manuals at November's NCSEA Summit in Las Vegas! As the year comes to a close, we're reflecting on AISC's century as a steward of reliability and looking forward to a new year full of innovations. What breakthroughs has your Manual inspired in 2024?

We would be remiss to close out 2024 without congratulating AISC's own Senior Director of Engineering Tom Schlafly for receiving the 2024 American Welding Society Philip Torchio III Exemplary Committee Member Award! Todd Niemann, P.E. (right), chair of the D1 Committee on Structural Welding, presented the award to Schlafly (left) in recognition of his leadership and contributions to the improvement of the D1 codes. Congratulations on this well-deserved honor, Tom!

Tighten up your structural bolting inspection program with a new resource from the AASHTO/NSBA Steel Bridge Collaboration! The updated G4.2 Guidelines for the Qualification of Structural Bolting Inspectors defines essential factors involved in structural bolting and the qualification of personnel inspecting these operations. It helps owners develop individual training and qualification programs for structural bolting inspectors. Download the guidelines today at aisc.org/gdocs. AASHTO (American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials)

AISC Education Foundation donors gave these students an awesome field trip--and you can help more smiling faces learn outside the classroom! Through December 31, we’re matching every donation to the Education Foundation. Your contributions will give more students the opportunity to attend career-defining industry events. They will allow us to administer more scholarship money to people who will go on to lead the industry. And they will help educators like William Collins, PE, PhD of The University of Kansas bring students to see structural steel in the real world. Double your impact by contributing to the Education Foundation this holiday season. aisc.org/giving

Today’s structural steel industry would be nothing without the people whose passion and expertise drive it forward. AISC is recognizing 12 of these individuals for their extraordinary contributions at NASCC: The Steel Conference next year! AISC’s Lifetime Achievement Award recipients are (top row, left to right) Ken Charles of the Steel Joist Institute and STEEL DECK INSTITUTE; Domenic Coletti, PE of HDR; Rich Henige, PE, SE of LeMessurier Consultants; Judy Liu, PhD of Oregon State University; (second row, left two photos) John O'Quinn of High Steel Structures LLC; and Amit Varma, PhD of Purdue University. AISC is recognizing (second row, right two photos) Karl Barth, PhD of West Virginia University; Dimitrios Lignos, PEng, PhD, M.SSRC of École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL); (third row, left two photos) Mark Waggoner, PE of Walter P Moore; and Jaclyn Raciti Whelan, PE of Conrail with Special Achievement Awards. Andrew Sen, PhD of Marquette University and Andy Ziccarelli, PE, PhD of North Carolina State University (third row, right two photos) are the 2025 Terry Peshia Early Career Faculty Award recipients. We can’t wait to honor this exceptional group at the Steel Conference in Louisville, Ky.! Find out more about each of them at https://lnkd.in/gXH5k-uY.

Ever see a picture and think, “Oh, that would make a *diabolical* jigsaw puzzle?” Well, now you have--and trust us, it is! Structural steel made it possible to integrate a massive new wing with an existing building at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Every floor of the west wing addition to the Alan Magee Scaife Hall is unique, with the structural layout directly matched to the function of the level. The project team wove new trusses, cantilevers, and entire hanging levels into the rest of the medical school building--and framed everything in a way that could adapt to the school’s future needs. Find out more about the future-focused solutions behind Scaife Hall at aisc.org/truss-the-process. While you’re at it, see how fast you can assemble a view of its façade at aisc.org/puzzles.

Looking for inspiration when it comes to workforce development? Work IN Roads can teach you a thing or two! Indiana civil engineers, construction companies, and other industry stakeholders have joined forces to solve a skilled trades shortage and support the state’s transportation infrastructure network. The unique, collaborative approach of Work IN Roads provides a lesson in progress and growth that you could potentially replicate in your own neck of the woods. They shared the info you need to get started at this year’s NASCC: The Steel Conference--and it’s available online! Visit aisc.org/workINroads to find out how to connect with students entering the workforce to provide them with great career options and the community with better infrastructure.