CHICAGO - The American Institute of Steel Construction is introducing a new conference that is designed for today’s hectic pace of life.

The Flash Steel Conference will take place October 20-22.

The virtual event features 20 half-hour sessions whose impact far exceeds the time commitment. Participants can earn up to 10 PDHs.

The time slots may be small, but the names are big. Participants can expect presentations on:

• Nice splices, from the visible connections in AESS (presented by AISC Special Achievement Award winner Terri Meyer Boake) to a round-up of Steel Solutions Center FAQs


• Beam stability bracing, with AISC T.R. Higgins Lectureship Award winner Bo Dowswell


• Delegated connection design with AISC Lifetime Achievement Award winner Carol Drucker


• What Jon Magnusson has learned over several decades of groundbreaking building design


• What welding guru and AISC Robert P. Stupp Award for Leadership Excellence winner Duane Miller thinks engineers and detailers should know about welded connections


• A dispatch from the future, with AISC Special Achievement Award winner Amit Varma

 

The whole schedule is online at aisc.org/flash.

The Flash Steel Conference features byte-sized registration fees for both individuals and groups.

Individual:

• Member: $250


• Non-member: $500


• Student/faculty: $200

We also offer a group rate for colleagues who work in the same office or location. (This includes colleagues from the same office who are currently working remotely.)

• Member: $650


• Non-member: $975


• Student/faculty: $500

 

About the American Institute of Steel Construction

The American Institute of Steel Construction, headquartered in Chicago, is a non-partisan, not-for-profit technical institute and trade association established in 1921 to serve the structural steel design community and construction industry. AISC's mission is to make structural steel the material of choice by being the leader in structural steel-related technical and market-building activities, including specification and code development, research, education, technical assistance, quality certification, standardization, market development, and advocacy. AISC has a long tradition of service to the steel construction industry of providing timely and reliable information.