The Canadian Institute of Steel Construction (CISC) has recognized the top three winners of its Architectural Student Design awards. Montreal architect Atelier Paul Laurendeau, who organized the competition and the panel of judges — engineers Todd Collister, director engineering and business development at Supreme Group, Michel Comeau at Campbell Comeau Engineering Limited in Halifax and Bechara [...]
Steel for Lunch is an industry-led seminar series for students preparing to enter professional practice. These presentations, workshops, and training opportunities build community between industry and academia while ensuring that students are up-to-date on relevant techniques, topics, and practices used by industry leaders. Click here to browse the event calendar for a topics of interest [...]
Excellence in steel construction is shared goal for our industry. We know that steel is the obvious choice for an economic, flexible, creative, and sustainable infrastructure. In order to see steel continue be the material of choice for construction – and to let others know as well - we must pay attention to how we support [...]
$1.9 million in total investment to benefit in high-school welding programs across Canada Twenty-two high-schools across Canada will benefit from over $1.9 million to improve and enhance their welding programs. The funding, made possible by the CWB Welding Foundation’s Capital Equipment and Consumables Fund and co-investment from other partners, will allow high schools to complete [...]
A laboratory research program carried out at the University of Waterloo featured the testing of three large-scale steel-concrete composite beam specimens with embedded bolt shear connectors. A detailed assessment of the connector performance was made, facilitating a comparison with similar beams with welded stud connectors previously tested in the same laboratory. It is proposed that the [...]
This paper examines the reliability of welded stud shear connectors for steel-concrete composite bridge girders. A finite element model of a simply-supported bridge was created featuring link connector elements representing the shear studs. The study considered the probabilistic characteristics of the welded studs and truck loading. The example bridge was designed according to the CSA S6 [...]
By Pedram Mortazavi, Eden Lee, Oh-Sung Kwon, Constantin Christopoulos, University of Toronto and Justin Binder, Michael Gray, Cast Connex Corporation Steel Eccentrically Braced Frames (EBFs) have been proposed as Lateral Load Resisting Systems (LLRS) for seismic applications since the early 1970s [1-2]. They provide an attractive alternative to more commonly used LLRS in steel structures such [...]
The 2020 CISC Educators Forum biennial event was held in Winnipeg, MB, on February 28-29, 2020. The CISC brought together academics teaching steel design to undergraduate students in faculties of engineering and architecture at universities across Canada. Thanks to the generous travel support from local CISC Regional Committees and CISC Member, Gerdau. The theme of this [...]
“Success requires that we consistently work to achieve our goals through integrated initiatives that place priority on moving the steel construction industry forward simultaneously on multiple fronts.” Michael Holleran, P.Eng. Though iron has been around for centuries, its usage of structural steel in construction is relatively modern. As the production methods improved around the Industrial Revolution, [...]
Civil Engineering students are challenged to an intercollegiate competition that supplements their education with comprehensive, student-driven project experience from conception and design through fabrication, erection, and testing, culminating in a steel structure that meets client specifications and optimizes performance and economy. Hercule École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS) [...]