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STRUCTURE
Three Benefits of the Composite Steel Joist
Lighter, shallower, and cheaper: composite steel joist floor systems can save costs, save materials, and optimize space. These cost-saving reasons for designing a composite steel joist floor system are described in depth, as well as how to best coordinate with your provider.
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modern steel construction
Fielding Modifications with Ease
While the structural engineer of record (SER) is ultimately responsible for joist field modification details, it is typically the joist manufacturer that provides the proposed modification details for SER review and approval. Direct communication is crucial to a successful modification.
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aisc engineering Journal
Experimental Investigation of Steel Joist Design for Ductile Strength Limit State
The purpose of this research is to investigate a ductile design methodology for steel joists where the primary strength limit state is characterized by tension-member yielding and large inelastic deformation, followed by a secondary strength limit state of compression-member buckling.
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metal construction news
Three Ways to Uplift Metal Design
When a metal building project requires the integration of steel joist or deck, it is often an opportunity to capitalize on the cost-performance advantages of these alternative structural elements. Here are three ways to do that
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modern steel construction
Flex-Joist™: Not Just Any Joist
When a metal building project requires the integration of steel joist or deck, it is often an opportunity to capitalize on the cost-performance advantages of these alternative structural elements. Here are three ways to do that.
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construction today
Looking Up in a Downturn: Nationwide Growth

New Millennium expands its capacity across the country, growing when competitors have not.
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Progress Report: BIM Adoption from a Supplier’s Point of View

What’s new about BIM is that it supports vastly improved collaboration toward project efficiency. We are getting involved early in the design process, communicating more effectively and sharing more information than ever.
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BIM at work: Experiences in BIM-based Steel joist design

In a true BIM approach, where joist design collaboration occurs early in the development process, the BIM team does not seek final documentation approval until they have completed the digital design and detailing of the steel joists within the as-built structural 3D steel model.
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Experts Discuss Goals and Pitfalls of BIM and Interoperability

Gary Wyatt, business line manager, structural engineering, AEC at Autodesk, Inc., says that the rapid adoption of BIM is helping project teams and owners alike discover opportunities throughout a project’s design and construction phases.
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BIM on Target

By using BIM for the design of its new store, big-box retailer Target has been able to model the entire structural steel package, including joists, in 3D, chopping the timeline for shop drawings from as much as 10 weeks down to an ‘unheard of’ three-and-a-half weeks.
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Building Information Modeling: Adopting Digital Design at the Supplier End

While much has been published in support of the top-down merits of building information modeling (BIM), the lack of digital design adoption at the supplier end will remain an impediment to the approach.
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Collaborative Steel Joist Design

Early teamwork can bring a chain reaction of cost reductions to most steel projects, benefiting the owner, developer and entire project team.
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Raising Expectations: New Design Freedom for Architects and Engineers

By expanding the engineering specifications for gable, bowstring, scissor, and arch type steel joists, New Millennium allows architects to more readily achieve their most creative roofline designs using steel joists rather than alternative structural materials.
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Rethinking Project Delivery

New Millennium’s survey of architects, engineers, contractors, building owners, and developers found that 87% of respondents ranked “on-time delivery” of key building components like steel as crucial to the success of construction projects.
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