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TECHNICAL RESOURCES Detailing Resources Available for Download People and Firms AISC’s ePubs detailing resources have been AISC members can now download • , Inc., has signed updated to include the very first detailer the contents of these golden-oldie CDs a definitive agreement with training CD collection. AISC and NISD from the ePubs page: www.aisc.org/ the shareholders of Graitec jointly created a series of 12 detailer train- epubs. (This page features free con- (an AISC member) to acquire ing CDs in 2000. These CDs contained tent—such AISC’s latest standards and certain technology assets, instructional videos and PDFs of example specifications—as well as members- including Graitec’s Advance drawings covering the basics of the struc- only content.) Steel and Advance Concrete tural steel industry as well as 2D detailing. product lines and associated employees. • Trimble has acquired AISC NASCC member CSC, Ltd., from ISIS Facility and Site Tours at NASCC Equity Partners LLP. CSC’s products include software In addition to the more than 100 techni- for the adaptive reuse of two existing solutions for the analysis and cal sessions, extensive product showcase . design of steel and concrete and plentiful networking opportunities The construction site tour and pre- buildings. The company will that will take place at NASCC: The sentation will focus primarily on the de- become part of the Trimble Steel Conference in Toronto, March sign and construction of the delta frames, Buildings’ Structures Division. 26-28, this year’s conference also offers which feature the massive 17.5-ton cast EVRAZ North America free tours of a local ironworker training steel nodes. Also to be discussed is the • (an facility and a highly anticipated adap- “table-top” steel platform, which was de- AISC member) announced Jerry Reed tive reuse project in Toronto’s Down- signed to integrate with the reinforced as the company’s town West. concrete tower above. The delta frames new executive vice president Ironworkers have a knack for build- are primary elements of the gravity and of long products, a position ing soaring towers and spanning lateral force resisting systems for the formerly held by president Conrad Winkler thousands of feet. But how does an iron- . Due to the extreme magnitude and CEO . worker go from an apprentice to a full- of loading, the delta frame members and Reed originally joined fledged journeyman? Join Iron Workers cast nodes are concrete filled for com- EVRAZ in 2011 as senior Local 721, Toronto, the Ironworker Man- posite action. vice president of business agement Progressive Action Cooperative Both tours are scheduled for the development for North Trust (IMPACT) and AISC on a tour of morning of March 26, the first day of the America, and for the past the Ironworkers Training Facility to get a conference. The ironworker training year has served as chief behind-the-scenes look at how ironwork- facility tour will take place from 8:30 commercial ers become “cowboys of the sky,” hoist- a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and includes a boxed and business ing steel beams, tying rebar, welding and lunch. The construction site tour will development much more. be held from 8:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. officer for EVRAZ Or, you can tour the Queen Richmond There is no charge to take these tours. Highveld Centre West. To accommodate an incred- However, registration is required and Steel and ibly tight sight, the project called for an capacity is limited, so be sure to sign up Vanadium 11-story reinforced concrete office tower early via your conference registration in to be perched atop of three, 70-ft-tall form to secure your spot! To register for South Africa. architecturally exposed structural steel NASCC and to view the advance program, • Tom Harrison, (AESS) “delta frames.” This also allowed go to www.aisc.org/nascc. S.E., P.E., AIA, LEED AP, has accepted the position of chief structural engineer at Holabird & Root. He has spent 25 years Correction in the industry, cofounded the In the November 2013 article “Special Delivery” (p. 30), The Herrick American Society of Civil Corporation was incorrectly listed as the for the Sutter Heath Engineers (ASCE) Sustainability Eden Medical Center project in Castro Valley, Calif. The detailer was actually Committee and has served as Candraft Detailing, Inc. (an AISC member), which won North American chairman on ASCE’s Committee and Global Awards for the project. on Aesthetics in Design.

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STEEL TOOLS There’s a Steel App for That This past summer AISC launched a mo- specific your search results become, and it could be modified to include angles, bile app contest, with a prize of $5,000, you can set tolerances for all search criteria. channels and HSS. Additionally, code that tasked entrants with creating an The database from which to select mem- checks per the 2010 AISC Seismic Provi- app that could potentially improve the bers includes current and historic I-shapes, sions could be added. Another modifica- workflow of designers or builders of steel back to 1873, for domestic rolling mills. tion could be a check based on reduced structures. After providing your search criteria sections by allowing the user to modify The winning app? I-Search, a free An- and hitting “Search,” the wide-flange section properties. Applying metric con- droid app (available on Google Play) that section(s) matching your criteria will ap- versions to the data is yet another possi- allows users to determine which wide- pear in a list. You can then analyze one ble modification. The coding for the app flange sections meet their search criteria. of the listed shapes as a column or beam is available for modification at github. Created by winning submitter Struc- with a user-specified applied load by com/structurx/i_search and is licensed turx, I-Search references members listed entering the required information. For under GNU Public License. in the 14th Edition AISC Manual and columns, this includes height, unbraced AISC will post more mobile apps at 2010 AISC Specification. If you’re measur- length in both weak and strong axes and www.steeltools.org as they are discov- ing wide-flange sections in the field, it lets material yield strength. For beams, it in- ered or developed. If you have ideas or you perform quick beam checks. If you cludes main span, top flange unbraced suggestions for new apps, visit www.aisc. have a damaged column, you can use it to length, material yield strength, deflection org/steelapps or email solutions@aisc. determine the column section for analysis limits and loads (dead and live only). You org. To learn more about I-Search, visit checks. It can even help you if you’re sitting check the section as either a column or www.structurx.com. in a design meeting and need to run quick beam, then simply hit “Analyze” and the calculations to estimate member sizes. basic checks are completed. For columns, “Since I am a design engineer by the checks include compactness, elastic profession, most of my ideas come from buckling stress, critical stress and nomi- thinking of things that would help me in nal capacity. For beams, they include what I do,” said Kip Ping of Structurx, shear, moment and deflection checks. who designed the app. “I have had some You also have the option of designing other ideas but was waiting to see how with ASD or LRFD; this option is listed successful our first app was before com- under the defaults along with the toler- mitting time, energy and money to them. ances for the search criteria. In addition, Also, I think apps are better when they the data is presented in basic text that can are simple, and at some point an app can be copied and pasted and disseminated to become too complicated.” other team members. The main startup screen shows a wide- You can download the app at www. flange with four search criteria options: steeltools.org. It’s free and can be modi- flange width and thickness and web depth fied to make improvements and incorpo- and thickness. The search criteria are en- rate new features. For example, I-Struc- tered in grey boxes to conduct your search. ture currently only lists domestically The more information you enter, the more produced wide-flange sections, though

EVENTS Steel Sessions at 2014 Structures Congress Registration is now open for the 2014 ings,” presented by the authors, includes presentations on seismic ASCE/SEI Structures Congress, which provides an overview of these two design of multi-tiered braced frames will be held in Boston, April 3–5, at the new AISC Design Guides. and eccentrically braced frames. Sheraton Boston Hotel and Hynes Con- ➤ “Steel Connection Innovations” ➤ “Composite Construction” fo- vention Center. features recent research and stud- cuses on new analysis and design The technical program features more ies on various connection topics, procedures for steel-concrete than 120 technical sessions, including a such as partially restrained bolted composite shear walls and com- track of steel-related topics: beam-to-column connections, gus- posite frame systems. ➤ “New AISC Design Guides: AISC set plate stability and prediction of AISC is a Gold sponsor of the Con- Design Guide 26, Design of Blast Re- fracture of welded moment con- gress. To register for the Congress or view sistant Structures and Design Guide nections under cyclic loading. a Preliminary Program, visit content. 28, Stability Design of Steel Build- ➤ “Steel Braced Frame Innovations” asce.org/conferences/structures2014.

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EVENTS FABTECH Shines Optimistic Light on Future of U.S. Manufacturing November’s FABTECH conference and cision Metalforming Association (PMA), was that the sector must do a better job expo set records for the highest number believes there is certainly a manufacturing promoting manufacturing as a career and of attendees, exhibitors and floor space in renaissance in many areas, thanks in part to work with educators and parents to expose the show’s history. Show organizers re- the creation of new technologies. However, the younger generation to today’s modern ported that 40,667 people attended and he is more cautious. Using a baseball anal- technologies, innovations and current op- 1,573 exhibitors displayed their products ogy, he said that since the 2009 recession, portunities available in the industry. and technologies across 650,000 sq. ft manufacturing has “hit a single and is at “Manufacturing is an exciting field of floor space at Chicago’s McCormick first base.” But we need to be careful “not that offers good jobs with good wages and Place—all signs that U.S. manufacturing to get picked off trying to go to second.” benefits making cutting edge products may have a bright future. Manufacturing must still figure out how to using new technologies,” said Oravitz. Featured panelists at the conference’s be globally competitive. The economic session ended with State of the Industry—Executive Out- The session moderator, Alan Beau- Beaulieu asking the audience for a show look Roundtable session agreed that the lieu, president of ITR Economics, com- of hands of those who are optimistic U.S. is in a “manufacturing renaissance.” mented that the manufacturing renais- about the future of manufacturing; more Jeff Oravitz, president and CEO at sance is helped by companies moving than half raised their hands. MetoKote Corporation in Lima, Ohio, production back to the U.S., not because Next year’s FABTECH will take place said the U.S. manufacturing sector re- of patriotism but rather because costs are November 11–13 in Atlanta as well as in- naissance is being driven by a surge in competitive. Oravitz agreed, saying that ternationally. FABTECH Canada will low-cost energy production. He ex- it bodes well for U.S. manufacturing that take place March 18–20 at the Toronto plained that many American companies supply chains are getting shorter and Congress Centre. On April 10–12, the that survived the 2009 downturn ratch- there is a growing emphasis on quality. inaugural FABTECH India, co-located eted up productivity and made them- The panel agreed that one factor that with the India Institute of Welding’s selves more competitive, and he believes can slow the manufacturing renaissance is Weld India Exhibition, will take place in that growth is sustainable as long as the the shortage of skilled labor in the U.S., New Delhi. And FABTECH Mexico will U.S. addresses the skilled labor shortage which was also the main topic of discus- be held on May 6–8 at the Centro Bana- and the country’s infrastructure needs. sion at the conference’s Solutions for a mex in Mexico City. Bill Adler, president of Stripmatic Prod- Qualified Workforce Pipeline panel ses- For more information on FABTECH, ucts in Cleveland and chairman of the Pre- sion. A common theme in both sessions visit www.fabtechexpo.com.

REGIONAL NEWS AISC Has a New Face in the Upper Midwest Matthew D. Brady, P.E., LEED Green in AISC’s Steel Solutions Center, devel- three years as a Steel Solutions Center Associate, has been promoted to Upper oping conceptual solutions for a variety Advisor and is very qualified to take on Midwest Regional Engineer in AISC’s of steel structures including parking ga- the role and challenges this new position Market Development department, replac- rages and multi-story residential, office, brings,” said Tabitha Stine, S.E., P.E., ing Monica Shripka. He represents AISC industrial, educational and healthcare LEED AP, AISC’s director of technical in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, buildings. marketing. “He brings strong interper- Michigan and Wisconsin, educating proj- Prior to joining AISC, Matt worked in sonal skills, a broad background in the ect de- a variety of roles including construction, steel industry, experience with our mem- cision forensics and design, both as a consult- bers and vast technical knowledge to makers ing engineer and an internal designer for educate decision makers on the benefits on the ad- A/E firms. He has worked on the design and expertise in using structural steel. vantages of bridges, buildings and non-building Matt will be a great asset to our field staff of design- structures, many of which involved steel team, and we look forward to him help- ing and design, detailing, fabrication and erec- ing increase the market share of fabricat- building tion. He earned his bachelor’s and mas- ed structural steel in the region.” in struc- ter’s degrees from the University of Illi- You can follow Matt on his AISC tural steel. nois at Urbana-Champaign, and for the “My Region” Upper Midwest page or on Most re- past 10 years he has served in the Illinois Twitter (@UpperMidwestRE). To learn cently, he Army National Guard, including a tour more about AISC’s regional engineers worked as to Afghanistan in 2008–2009. and to see who’s in your region, visit an advisor “Matt has been with AISC for nearly www.aisc.org/myregion. january 2014 news

BOARD OF DIRECTORS AISC Elects Three New Board Members AISC elected three new members to its general contracting firms. Previously, the Central Fabricators Association, and Board of Directors at its recent Annual he served as a board member for the before that he served for two years as Meeting of the Members of the Institute North American Steel Sheet Piling As- vice president. in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. sociation (NASSPA), participated in O’Quinn has 33 years of experience in Stan Baucum, director of structural the European Committee for Iron and the structural steel fabrication industry. products at Gerdau Long Steel North Steel Standardization in Brussels for the As executive vice president of Hirschfeld America in Midlothian, Texas; Dan Structural Steels - Sheet Piling (ECISS/ Industries’ Division, he’s respon- Kadrmas, president of TrueNorth Steel TC 10SC 4 Standardization) and has sible for all management aspects of four in West Fargo, N.D.; and John O’Quinn, served on the MSCI Plates and Shapes steel fabrication plants in the eastern U.S. executive vice president of Hirschfeld In- Council since 2008. as well as two in San Angelo, Texas, and dustries’ Bridge Division in Greensboro, Kadrmas has served as president of oversees a total of 650 employees. Previ- N.C., will immediately begin serving on TrueNorth Steel since 2005 and has also ously, he served for four years as senior the AISC Board, assisting with the orga- been the president of FTC Transport, vice president of sales and operations for nization’s planning and leadership in the Minnkota Windows and Rommesmo the company’s East Coast Bridge Divi- steel construction industry. Companies; previously, he served as sion; he joined the company in 2006 as its “I am pleased to welcome Stan, Dan chief financial officer for six years for vice president of sales. He has also served and John to the AISC Board,” comment- these companies. He has also served on the Executive Council of the National ed AISC Chair Jeffrey Dave of Dave Steel as president of Cornerstone Holding Steel Bridge Alliance, AISC’s bridge divi- Company, Inc., Asheville, N.C. “This is a Company since 2009 and as a board sion, for the past three years. very experienced group, and their knowl- member since 2006. He recently com- You can view a full list of AISC’s Offi- edge of our industry and experience with pleted his two-year term as president of cers and Board Members at www.aisc.org. the activities of AISC will allow each of them to have an immediate positive im- pact on the Board. I thank them for their commitment of both time and resources while further serving our industry.” Baucum has nearly 30 years of ex- perience in the steel and construction industry. His employment history with long steel production has included posi- tions in quality control, sales and sales management, as well as serving as a director of engineered products. He also worked within the construction industry at one of the country’s largest Baucum Kadrmas O’Quinn

MARKET NEWS One Billion Tons of Steel Recycled over Past Quarter Century More than one billion tons of steel have retail and scrap collections. recognized energy efficiency, coupled been recycled by the North American On the structural side, based on with the recycling rate that is the highest steel industry since 1988, according to construction and demolition industry of any material, proves our commitment the Steel Recycling Institute (SRI), a estimates, about 98% of out-of-service to sustainability and resource conserva- business unit of the American Iron and structural plates and beams are recycled tion,” said Thomas J. Gibson, president Steel Institute (AISI). SRI marked its every year. and CEO of AISI. “For 25 years, steel’s 25th anniversary in 2013 with this mile- The steel industry’s recycling accom- recycling successes have been spear- stone achievement and the release of the plishments are also at the core of other headed by the SRI and we look forward 2012 steel recycling rates. environmental advances by the North to another quarter century, where steel For 2012, the overall recycling rate American steel industry. Since 1990, the leads social, economic and environmen- for steel was 88% with nearly 84 million steel industry has improved its energy ef- tal advances.” tons of steel recycled. This included rates ficiency per ton by 27% and has decreased You can learn more about structural on appliance and construction products, its CO2 emissions per ton by 33%. steel and sustainability on AISC’s website which are based on industry estimates of “The steel industry’s internationally at www.aisc.org/sustainability.

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