📖 Modern Steel Construction (October 2025)


Headlines:

● Resources for a Seismic Boost (By Patrick Engel): Five helpful resources you might not know about in the 4th Edition AISC Seismic Design Manual from the people who developed it.

● Trained in Train Bridges (Interview By Geoff Weisenberger): Jaclyn Whelan has focused on railway bridges for her entire engineering career and recently led a task group that developed a vital new resource for designing them.

● A Buffet(t) of Business Wisdom (By John Schuepbach): These six business practices and lessons from Warren Buffett are applicable to any company, including steel fabricators.

● Perfect Blend (By Mark Stevenson): A hybrid steel-CLT structural system conquers complicated connection considerations in a new vocational training center.

● Tailored-Fit Arch (By Thomas Murphy, Daniel McCaffrey, Nohemy Galindez, Frank Artmont, Walter Wimer, and Bradley Dillman): A steel arch bridge in a state park meets aesthetic considerations and is built to withstand all conditions.

● Above and Beyond (By Patrick Engel): Four students built a steel bridge over a creek in Costa Rica for their senior design project, easing a community’s travels and learning beyond the classroom.

● Ever-Evolving Efficiency (By Patrick Engel): Fabricators design shop floor layouts with efficient material flow as the top priority, and one company’s bold efficiency moves have boosted its entire operation.

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📖 Modern Steel Construction (November 2025)


Headlines:

● Mindful of Movement (By Brad Davis):
Recreational and sports facility design comes with many vibration challenges. These tips, equations, and tables cover many of them.

● A Taste for Teaching (Interview By Geoff Weisenberger):
A chance to fill in as an adjunct professor pulled Matt Reiter toward a full-time academic career. Five years in, he teaches various design classes and is developing guiding principles for an engineering buzzword.

● Drilling Down on Documentation (By Bailey Lackey):
These documentation tips will help quality assurance remain a priority and point of pride for steel fabricators and erectors as their workforce evolves.

● Steel on Schedule (By Todd R. Campbell and Chris Gottschall):
Close coordination between project team members maximized structural steel’s cost and construction speed advantages.

● Hot Off the Printer (By Justin Binder, Amanda Dodge, Dave Eckmann, Eloy Rodriguez, and Ryan Sherman):
The main attraction at AISC’s NASCC: The Steel Conference booth last spring displayed the intriguing potential of 3D-printed steel.

● Beyond Books (By AISC & ACSA Collaboration):
The 2025 Student Design Steel Competition challenged architecture students to create a building that reimagines and expands the purpose of a structure found in most cities.

PDF of Modern Steel Construction (November 2025):
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