Modern Steel Construction (October 2024)
Headlines:
● Bridge Resource Central (By Brandon Chavel): Creating efficient and economical steel bridges is easy with NSBA’s extensive collection of free online resources.
● Fluent in Bridges (Interview By Geoff Weisenberger): Heather Gilmer studied linguistics before finding her way to her original engineering passion: bridges. Combining them has led to 20-plus years in fabrication quality management and specification writing.
● Attesting to AI (By Daniel Kamau, Grayson Ingram): Fabricators discuss how implementing AI has improved productivity and share their experiences working with steel-specific AI.
● Stoked for Steel (By Patrick Engel): AISC’s 15th annual SteelDays offers enticing options for exploring the dynamic U.S. structural steel industry.
● City Center Connector (By Travis Butz, John Shanks): An affordable, efficient, and minimally disruptive steel bridge is a new link between a downtown area with three stadiums and a busy bike trail.
● Bridge Brilliance (By Ben Szymanski, Jessica Venuti): An interstate exit bridge widening project showed off fit-up creativity and included a clever geometry control system.
● Press Forward (By Russ Renner): The durability and speed of tub girders made them the best choice to replace a concrete short-span bridge in Illinois.
● Critical Crossing (By Patrick Engel): NSBA and Bridges to Prosperity teamed up for a third trip to rural Rwanda to build a steel bridge that will save lives.
● Workforce Development Win (By Patrick Engel): The Fabricator Education Training Program is AISC’s most ambitious and thorough effort yet toward improving talent recruitment and retention.
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