Modern Steel Construction (January 2025) Headlines: ● Considerations for Cladding Connections (By Colleen Stuber Zukanovic And Ezra Arif Edwin): The exterior cladding on a steel building requires meticulous connection design to the main structure. Consider these cladding tips in the design phase. ● Steins Sell Steel (Interview By Geoff Weisenberger): Gary Stein has guided the steel distribution company his father founded from a one-location operation into a market leader. ● A Letter to / from the Mid-Level Engineer (By Aaron Kostrzewa): An experienced engineer offers advice: learning experiences don’t stop after a short time on the job. ● Macy’s Makeover (By John Brunner, Tom Soell and Hillary Nicholas): Turning a department store into an office building presented several atypical hurdles ultimately overcome with steel solutions. ● Steeling Time (By Josh Olund): Steel played a pivotal role in MaineDOT’s fast-tracked design, construction, and opening of a vital U.S.-Canada crossing. ● At Ease (By Terry Mcmillian): Thorough preparation in advance of a certification audit is the best way for fabricators and erectors to reduce nervousness about it. ● Cross-Country Celebration (By Patrick Engel): SteelDays, AISC’s annual event highlighting the domestic steel industry, united all corners of the AEC field for an inside look at various links in the steel supply chain. ● Speed Studies (By Devin Huber And Caitlin Colsia): Research projects were a crucial part of AISC’s Need for Speed initiative—and several of them made significant impacts on faster steel construction. ● Embodied Carbon by the Numbers (By John Cross): Determining embodied carbon of construction materials involves few finite values and ample critical thinking. PDF of Modern Steel Construction (January 2025): https://t.center/ISSS83/18472 @ISSS83