After spending 10 years on active duty in the U.S. Army, living on bases everywhere from Missouri and Colorado to Japan and South Korea, Zachary Shinkle zeroed in on a new mission: coming home. Shinkle, 30, was born and raised in Louisville and has spent the last year and a half building new pieces of its skyline as a press operator at Padgett, Inc.

"I dipped my toes into a program that helps you transition from military to civilian," Shinkle says. "I picked a class on sheet metal fabrication, and it gave me a love for welding. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Just knowing that I can take a blueprint, do the math, use my brain, and build something--I take pride in what I do. I take pride in what I make."

Five organizations representing the American steel industry today wrote to President Trump to reiterate their strong support for the Section 232 steel tariffs and the program’s expanded coverage and to urge retention of the steel tariffs during ongoing bilateral negotiations on other tariffs.

The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), Steel Manufacturers Association (SMA), Committee on Pipe and Tube Imports (CPTI), Specialty Steel Industry of North America (SSINA) and American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) this morning sent a joint letter to the president applauding “bold action to increase the tariffs to 50 percent” and requesting that the administration not grant special arrangements “to foreign countries that would eliminate or reduce steel Section 232 tariff coverage” as negotiations on the administration’s proposed reciprocal tariffs continue.

While it seems obvious that a new Iron Workers Local training center would be built with steel, the actual reason was more practical. The project’s architect, Gensler, and the structural engineer, Nayyar & Nayyar International, chose steel because it was the best choice to meet the project's design requirements.

The 12,000-sq.-ft. facility opened in June 2024 as the new training center home for Iron Workers Local 63 in Broadview, Ill., about 12 miles west of Chicago. The building is nicknamed "Glass Box" and showcases steel to anyone who steps inside or looks through the glass exterior. Its concave shape is an architectural nod to the shape of a perfect weld bead.

A draft of the next edition of the AISC Code of Standard Practice for Structural Stainless Steel Buildings (AISC 313) is now available for public review and comment.

The next edition of AISC 313 will supersede the 2021 edition.

Architect Daniel Libeskind once said, "Architecture is not based on concrete and steel and the elements of the soil--it's based on wonder." A visit to Boston's The Hub on Causeway, a monumental mixed-use district built atop a major underground multi-modal transit station and four levels of underground parking and abutting a critical roadway artery, sparks just that: wonder.

In the case of The Hub, co-developers BXP and Delaware North and the design team of Gensler architects and LeMessurier structural engineers transformed a long-vacant site, once home to the historic Boston Garden arena, into a vibrant live-work-play environment and the new grand entrance to the TD Garden arena.

How does a design team approach such a large and complex project? "Like you did when you drafted by hand, you realize the vision one line at a time," said Todd Staples, AIA, CPHC, northeast regional realization leader for Gensler.