The architects of Boulder, Colo.'s new Fire Station #3 set out to design a 100-year building that would exceed the city's lofty energy conservation goals and serve as a prototype for future fire stations. What they didn't know then was that the project would end up receiving acclaim as a prototype for the concept of circular design and construction. Instead of demolishing a building at the end of its useful life, the building is carefully deconstructed and the materials are reused in new construction, avoiding landfills and reducing embodied carbon.

The 28,300-sq.-ft fire station was in schematic design when the city's project manager approached Denver's Davis Partnership Architects with the idea of reusing structural steel members salvaged during the deconstruction of the 30-year-old decommissioned Boulder Community Hospital in the new fire station. "They said, 'We have this hospital we've been taking down and we have this ordinance that says we have to reuse a certain percentage of those materials. We'd like to use as much of the structural steel as possible on the fire station,'" said Joe Lear, a principal with Davis. "So we started planning to incorporate it into the design."

AISC has named its newest educator award in honor of a past president and board member who advanced the institute’s efforts to promote steel education.

The H. Louis Gurthet Teaching Faculty Award, announced in August without a namesake, celebrates the contributions and legacy of Lou Gurthet, who served as AISC’s president from 1996 to 2005 and on AISC’s Board of Directors from 1990 to 1996. It honors a teaching-focused faculty member (such as a professor of practice, lecturer, instructor, or adjunct professor) in a university civil engineering, architectural engineering, architecture, construction engineering, or construction management department.

A draft of the next edition of the AISC Code of Standard Practice for Steel Buildings and Bridges (AISC 303) is now available for public review and comment.

The next edition of AISC 303 will supersede the 2022 version and is anticipated to be finalized in 2027.

This draft introduces the term “character of work” and integrates the term throughout the standard. It also proposes updates to clarify the responsibilities for the design of member reinforcement.

Hollie Noveletsky, a former member of the AISC Board of Directors and president/CEO of Novel Iron Works in Greenland, N.H., is making her second run for the Republican nomination for the 1st Congressional District of New Hampshire (for more information, visit her campaign website).

A strong advocate of Buy America initiatives, her platform emphasizes the importance of job growth and strengthening American industry. As a passionate advocate, Noveletsky was instrumental in the 2022 enactment of New Hampshire’s Buy America legislation.