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):
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