December 2011

Following these 17 tips will help engineers experience architecturally exposed structural steel as a pleasant interactive process—not just a challenge.

Whether “architecturally exposed” or just “exposed to view,” here are some thoughts—big and small—about the collaborative role structural engineers play in creating beautiful steel structures.

For those who understand cast steel, it offers an interesting and useful structural option; here is what you need to know to take advantage of this alternative.

Complex connections in the structure’s 3D, triangular trusses were simplified by the expeditious use of custom-designed cast connections.

How Massachusetts’ I-93 Fast 14 accelerated bridge construction project used unitized construction to raise the bar for efficiency.

For more than a century this imposing 19th century steel arch bridge has linked Manhattan Heights with Washington Heights in the Bronx.

Begun in 2009 as a robust, grass rootslevel effort, SteelDay has grown into a pre-eminent national event, earning its annual mark on the calendars of industry professionals throughout the U.S.

The outlook for 2012 construction activity is far less robust than we were hoping for.

Don’t neglect this often-overlooked area, or you may come up short.

In addition to a distinguished career in structural engineering, Mike West also has served as an elected public official for more than a dozen years.