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SteelDay 2012: Have You Seen What We Do?

he structural steel industry’s largest networking and educational event returns on September 28, with various celebrations happening in the New England region. Have you seen what the structural steel industry can do? SteelDay is your opportunity to see how it’s done and learn about the processes through personal experience. September 28 marks the fourth annual SteelDay, when steel fabricators, mills, service centers, galvanizers, HSS producers, bender-rollers, and others across the nation will open their facilities, jobsites, and offices, offering tours and inviting AEC professionals and the public to explore the structural steel supply chain live and in person. Sponsored by the American Institute of Steel Construction, its members and partners, SteelDay is your chance to discover how design becomes project reality. “It’s a great opportunity for designers and others to see first-hand how the structural steel industry is building high-performance

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A worker demonstrates welding techniques for SteelDay attendees at Capone Iron Corporation.

and sustainable projects,” explained Roger E. Ferch, P.E., AISC’s president.

From special events in major cities like Boston, New York and Washington, D.C., to shop tours in small towns, SteelDay allows you to connect with design and construction professionals in your area and see the industry’s latest technologies and steelmaking processes in action. SteelDay also spurs conversations on project collaboration and job prospects, interactions that may not have happened without this unique platform. “It provides great networking between many disciplines and trades of steel construction,” said David A. Morand, P.E., of Gale Associates, Inc., Weymouth, Mass. Discover the Steel Supply Chain in Massachusetts and Vermont. Visit a steel fabricator and learn how structural steel is prepared for a building or bridge using off-site, controlled conditions, which ensure a consistently highquality product while reducing errors and costly fixes at the job site. Join Capone Iron Corporation, AISC member and AISC certified fabricator, at

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Moor to Chair NBIMS-US Committee

hicago - Chris Moor, director of industry initiatives for the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) has been selected Chris Moor as the new chair of the project committee tasked with developing Version 3 (V3) of the National BIM Standard for the United States (NBIMS-US). A project of the National Institute of Building Sciences buildingSMART alliance (bSa), NBIMS-US is a consensus document that serves to stanContinued on page 4

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SFNE Efforts Benefit N.E. Steel and Construction

by Catherine Flaherty The Steel Fabricators of New England (SFNE) is an association of structural steel and miscellaneous metal fabricators and allied companies that serve the building and bridge construction markets in New England. The mission of SFNE is to promote the use of fabricated structural steel and miscellaneous metals in buildings, bridges, and similar structures through education, legislative advocacy, and networking activities. Catherine Flaherty SFNE committees are involved in educational and legislative activities for the benefit of the steel industry and construction industry at large. In keeping with SFNE’s primary goal to represent the steel fabrication industry and improve and equip the construction industry to serve the needs of the region with structural steel, the association developed the Steel Advocacy Project, which brought together a coalition of steel industry companies working together to help improve the way that funds are allocated for infrastructure projects. The coalition retained the services of consultant Regan Communications Group (RCG) to help rebuild the steel industry’s relationship with the New England region’s transportation leaders, and much progress has been made since then. Doors have been opened and new relationships formed. The

effort resulted in a new partnership with the Short Span Steel Bridges Alliance (SSSBA), the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), the National Steel Bridge Alliance (NSBA), and the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI). These strategic alliances are certain to help the region’s steel fabricators in their efforts to partner with industry and at the same time increase steel’s share of future publicly funded building projects and bridgework. SFNE has also been working on a Buy American public awareness campaign. Utilizing the Voter Voice System, almost 1,000 letters were sent to members of the New England Congressional delegation last year. The goal of the letter-writing campaign was to bring attention to the fact that New England-based steel companies continue to be adversely affected by current trade inequalities. Currently the SFNE Board of Directors is looking at new ways to effect a trade remedy and relief under US trade laws. Each year, SFNE also conducts an annual steel design conference at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). The conference is co-sponsored by the AISC and the New England Steel Detailers Association (NESDA). This year, the conference offered a slate of sessions of interest and benefit to engineers, architects, detailers, and fabricators. These sessions included the I-93 FAST14, the most recent success for MassDOT’s Accelerated Bridge Program; the Girder-Slab System Technology; Codes, Standards and Rating Systems: Sustainability 2012 and Beyond; as well as a program that was designed to help engineers, fabrica-

Attending the recent steel design conference were (l-r): John Cross,V.P. of market development, AISC; Stratton Newbert, P.E., associate, Buro Happold structural engineers; Bill McEleney, director, National Steel Bridge Alliance; Bill Pascoli, N E senior regional engineer, AISC. tors, and detailers work together more efficiently. The SFNE Education Committee is already working on the agenda for the 2013 annual steel design conference, which will be held at WPI on Wednesday, June 5. Moving forward, SFNE will host a New Technologies Dinner Meeting on October 18. The event will be held at the Doubletree Hotel in Westborough, Mass., from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. The program is designed to provide members and colleagues with information about the latest technical innovations and systems that can be used in the steel fabrication business. As we move into what we all hope will be an economic recovery, fabricators will come to rely more on technology for efficiencies and productivity, particularly since most will be working with a leaner workforce. A panel discussion will provide attendees with a variety of new ideas, systems, and technologies that will help move a company profitably into the future. The panel will include: Moderator: Craig Van Sant, president and CEO, Atlantic Machin-

ery Sales; Stephen Farrow, vice president, Peddinghaus Corporation; Ian Coats, product manager, Tekla, Inc.; Kris Sikes, vice president sales and marketing, Controlled Automation; and Paul Sullivan, RSM, Ficep Corporation. To prepare fabricators for the “new normal” when the economy recovers, SFNE’s December 6 dinner meeting also will positioning one’s business to embark upon new projects even though there will be fewer architects and industry personnel to draw upon for support. Gregg Schoppman, principal with FMI, management consultants and investment bankers for the construction industry, will deliver the keynote address. The annual SFNE Golf Tournament will provide the industry’s next networking opportunity on September 11 at Wedgewood Pines Country Club in Stow, Mass. Catherine Flaherty, CAE, is executive director of the Steel Fabricators of New England, North Attleboro, Mass.

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Photo by Barry Kaplan/TFI Photo SteelDay attendees learn about the structural steel fabrication process first-hand during a tour of Capone Iron Corporation’s plant. Continued from page one their facility in Rowley, Mass., and observe how structural steel and miscellaneous iron fabrication is processed. A tour through the facility will give you a snapshot view of the daily processes and equipment used in steel fabrication along CIC’s production lines. CIC personnel will be available throughout the tour to answer any questions. Additionally, several industry vendors will be displaying products, including welding supplies, fasteners, coatings, and safety apparatus. Balram Chamaria with LeMessurier Consultants, Inc., Cambridge, Mass., attended last year’s SteelDay event at Capone Iron and commented, “It provided a platform and an opportunity to understand what goes behind those mighty and elegant steel structures.” If you’ll be near northern Vermont, consider visiting Reliance Steel, Inc., also an AISC member and AISC certified fabricator, at their open house in Colchester. You’ll be able to view equipment demonstrations and even try your hand at various aspects of steel fabrication. Several vendor partners will also be there to showcase their products and demonstrate processes, and you’ll have a chance to win various prizes throughout the day. A Day for All In addition to connecting the design and construction community with lo-

cal structural steel experts across the US, SteelDay has given rise to special events in major cities, engaging local dignitaries and government officials who recognize the steel industry’s contributions to the nation’s architecture and economy, its continuing progress, and the dedication of everyone involved. If you’ll be in our nation’s capital on SteelDay, sign up to attend a tour of the Ironworkers International headquarters and museum in Washington, DC. Or, if you’ll be in the Big Apple on SteelDay Eve (September 27), sign up to attend a luncheon and panel presentation by movers and shakers on New York’s construction scene. Hosted by AISC at the McGraw-Hill building in Midtown Manhattan, the panel discussion will focus on steel plate shear walls and how they can be incorporated into your next project. Complimentary copies of AISC’s Steel Design Guide 20: Steel Plate Shear Walls, will be given to all registered attendees. Have you seen what we do? Whether you spend SteelDay touring a steel facility or attending an educational presentation, this unique opportunity will allow you unprecedented access to the vibrant steel industry in the US. For more information visit www. SteelDay.org or sign up for an event near you directly at www.aisc.org/steeldayevents.

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dardize the way practitioners use BIM to more easily pass information from one phase of the building process to another. The NBIMS-US Project Committee oversees the standard’s development. “I enthusiastically support the Nominating Committee’s selection,” commented AISC Chairman William B. (Brad) Bourne III of Universal Steel, Inc., Lithonia, Ga. “They could not have chosen a more knowledgeable, energetic, and experienced leader than Chris Moor to lead the development of their vision for NBIMS-US V3. We wish Chris the best of luck and stand behind him with all that AISC can offer.” Moor has been a long-time advocate for open standards and improving interoperability. He has worked with 3D technology and BIM since 1994 and leads AISC’s efforts on technology integration and interoperability, which include exploring, implementing, and promoting new technologies that support and enhance the entire structural steel supply chain. AISC is committed to maintaining the structural steel industry’s leadership in interoperability and ensuring data related to structural steel can be exchanged throughout the supply chain and with other disciplines and trades. (Learn more at www.aisc.org/integration.) “Involvement in bSa and NBIMSUS is an investment in the future of the whole construction industry,” said Moor.

“I am looking forward to the challenge ahead, and am proud and humbled to be a part of the NBIMS-US effort.” A member of the NBIMS-US Project Committee and a director on the buildingSMART alliance Board of Direction, Moor was heavily involved in the development of NBIMS-US Version 2. He is also a member of the DesignBuild Institute of America BIM Committee; co-chairman of the American Iron and Steel Institute BIM Committee; secretary of AISC’s Technology Integration Committee; member of the Level of Development Special Interest Working Group (an Associated General Contractors of America/BIMForum/American Institute of Architects effort); and serves as the AISC lead for a Fiatech project addressing interoperability for steel within the process industry. He was previously the managing director of Tekla Corporation’s UK subsidiary. The NBIMS-US Project Committee will next elect a vice chairman and secretary and call for committee members to join the various working committees and subgroups to develop V3. Individuals and organizational representatives can participate on the committee, but first they must become members of the National Institute of Building Sciences and its buildingSMART alliance. To get involved in the process, visit www. buildingsmartalliance.org/support/ members.

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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

oston - When the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum opened at the turn of the 20th century, the 15th century Venetian-style palace housing, it welcomed a mere 2,000 visitors per year. Now, more than 200,000 visitors annually enter the museum doors. Gardner may no longer reside in the palace apartment, but plenty of preservation, restoration, and administrative specialists were shoehorned into the aging building. A tiny café and a bookstore also were wedged into the space. And the museum’s glorious tapestry room was being used as a makeshift performance space. According to Gardner’s will, the palace galleries could not be changed, but the contemporary demands on the museum clearly needed relief if it were to survive into the new century and beyond. To provide such relief, the museum enlisted Renzo Piano Building Workshop as architect and Boston’s Buro Happold as the structural engineer and mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineer for a $114 million expansion, which was completed in November of last year with its grand opening in January. The expansion, which is situated in the museum’s rear gardens, houses museum-related facilities, administrative offices and back-of-house functions, a greenhouse, two apartments, a special exhibition space, and a 300-seat performance hall. The greenhouse, entry lobby, and palace link are highly transparent structures with large areas of glass and minimalist detailing. Because of the architect’s extensive use of façade glazing and the desire for an elegant expression, bulky light- and viewblocking structural elements were highly discouraged. To accommodate this desired design aesthetic, Buro Happold created a structural solution that integrated the gravity and lateral systems into the mullions, precluding the need for redundant columns and beams to carry the weight of the superstructure and exterior wall. As a safeguard, the systems were conceived and vetted at an early stage and carefully coordinated with the façade contractor during design and construction to ensure the constructability of the structure. The structural engineer specified

architecturally exposed structural steel (AESS) throughout these structures to control tolerances and appearance. The same specification also was used for the main stair, exterior emergency egress walkways, skylight trusses, and music hall balconies – places where the exposed minimalist structural systems are a key design element. Slender plates and rolled sections were prevalent in the design, with rod hangers in select locations to reduce structural depth. Matching the appearance of the many different AESS elements was further complicated by the variety of design and procurement methods. The integrated structural façades and exterior walkways utilized a design-assist process with the curtain wall fabricator. The more typical design approach delegated for miscellaneous metal and stairs

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Architecturally exposed structural steel is prominent on the exterior, as well as the interior, of the museum expansion. was supplemented by fully floating boxes. Discrete points on the steel designed sections and con- cantilevers support the three-story concrete nection forces by Buro Hap- box of the music hall. A detailed strut-andtie model was created to test its stability and pold. The scope of each redundancy. In the music hall, three levels of balof the sub-contractors was carefully coordinated and conies wrap the circumference of the 300supervised by the general seat venue. The balconies feature a customcontractor, Shawmut De- designed acoustic precast panel hung from sign and Construction, Bos- an AESS steel frame. The space was origiton, to ensure an aesthetic nally conceived with post-supported balconies, but the design evolved into a hanging unity. The two primary rod solution resulting in a slender structure spaces in the addition are the that completely eliminated the need for colspecial exhibition gallery umns in the performance space. Initially, the team was concerned that and the music hall, which is comprised of a series of the large duct requirement for the music three “floating boxes.” The hall smoke evacuation would have overboxes are supported by whelmed the space. The structural engineer W36 upturned structural resolved this issue by combining structural steel cantilevered over 8-in. and mechanical systems into concrete cast columns, which are, in turn, box girders on the roof. In addition to proinset from the exterior wall. viding long-span roof support and a smoke The columns of the float- exhaust plenum, the beams double as suping boxes are supported by port structure for the three levels of balcoslender concrete basement nies. In the end, according to the museum, columns and subjected to overturning forces. Lack- the new building is a distinctive architecing the adequate space for tural addition that relieves pressure on the anchor bolts, the basement historic palace’s spaces and features materiThe music hall’s “floating boxes” are supported by column reinforcement was als that respectfully complement the existstructural steel columns. tightly coordinated to pass ing site and neighborhood. The Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum up through the ground floor and welded to the column baseplates. The resulting weld is a Certificate of Recognition winner in the condition was not pre-qualified and required American Institute’s 2012 IDEAS2 Awards submission to the American Institute of competition. This article was contributed by Buro Happold, Boston. For more on archiSteel Construction. The upturned steel frame and a distri- tecturally exposed structural steel (AESS) bution route for the MEP systems were hid- go to www.aisc.org/aess. den within the raised acoustic flooring of the

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Hybrid Parking Solution Packs Powerful One-Two Punch

by Alan H. Simon ften when I am seated in front of new clients discussing their parking garage projects, I find myself defining a consultant’s value in terms of multiples of fee. How can I deliver the most efficient and affordable program that meets each client’s unique challenge? The answer lies in critical thinking that leads to optimal solutions. One such solution for parking is the hybrid system: a combinaAlan Simon tion of structural steel and precast concrete that achieves both savings in construction and maintenance costs. This approach to parking also results in greater speed of construction; simple and lighter foundations; enhanced durability; more options for cladding, design, and aesthetics; and real sus-

tainability with highly recyclable content. It is the building component of steel, with its many structural properties, that delivers all of these benefits and often makes the hybrid solution the right one for parking clients. Steel that is exposed to view is much more easily maintained than is rebar buried in concrete that has lost its ability to protect steel when its environment has been changed by the intrusion of chemicals. Because of the need for fast construction, precast concrete has a greater potential for high strength and higher durability than does cast-in-place. Performance and innovation One of the earliest hybrid garage projects with which I was involved as a member of the former Boston engineering firm of Zaldastani Associates, Inc. (ZAI) is in East Cambridge, Mass. Located one block from the Middlesex County Court House and CambridgeSide Galleria, the 600-vehicle garage has received decades of heavy use. Despite continual traffic, the garage is in pristine condition and is one of the best

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examples of the durability and ease of maintenance afforded by a hybrid system where steel elements are exposed rather than embedded in concrete. The East Cambridge garage also displays a unique look with its combination of brick façade and steel frame. Cladding, design, and aesthetics often matter, especially in campus settings or any development where the garage must be integrated into its surroundings. Our team took on many large-scale garages on corporate campuses, including the Becton Dickinson project located in Franklin Lakes, NJ. Designed and built for a multinational corporate client and involving the renowned architecture firm of Kallmann, McKinnell and Wood, it was critical that the garage be in keeping with the look of the well-planned corporate campus while at the same time being an economical and durable structure. The steel and precast approach enabled the team to meet these criteria. The hybrid system evolves In early 1990s, the portfolio of hybrid parking garages grew nationally as more clients and end users benefited from the advantages of steel and precast under a designbuild delivery format. The increase in popularity of the design-build methodology cut across all areas of our industry, especially impacting garage design and construction since the precast industry was one of the first to embrace design-build. The design-build hybrid garage deliverable was quickly adopted as an alternative to precast and repeatedly, in the field, proved to be a more durable and cost effective solution that was better suited for accommodating a variety of exterior treatments and cladding.

Bottom line, the greater industry acceptance and application of design-build amplified the benefits that clients receive from the steel and precast approach. These projects included seven AT&T garages in Middletown, NJ, and Warren, NJ. The firm’s hybrid design-build system proved so successful that an integrated parking garage design-build company was eventually established. Market demand then led to the foundation of Hybrid Parking Solutions, LLC, a company that focused on the design and construction of parking structures for private development. The company eventually transitioned into the parking and professional engineering firm that I founded with my design team. Simon Design Engineering, Wellesley, Mass., serves major clients nationally with both parking as well as general structural engineering needs. The current and continued market desire for the deliverable of steel and precast as a system and a 25-year-plus working relationship with AISC member Berlin Steel Construction Co., Inc. has resulted in the formation of Hybrid Parking Garages, Kensington, Conn. The company’s most recent project is St. Anne’s Hospital garage completed this summer in Fall River, Mass., for Steward Health Care in association with Suffolk Construction. Looking to the future, the hybrid system will continue to reduce the extent of field welding and will feature comprehensive advancements in value-added design, as well as patent-pending and other innovations that seek to continually improve and solidify the hybrid approach. Alan Simon is a principal at Simon Design Engineering, LLC, Wellesley, Mass. and Hybrid Parking Garages.

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8:00 am EST, 5 hours and Site Tour of the Residence Inn by Marriott Hotel project at 121 Brookline Avenue Breakfast Presentation

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Location: 121 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215 Breakfast Presentation and Site Tour of the New England’s Largest Inventory of Steel Decking STEELDAY EVENT: BREAKFAST PRESENTATION AND SITE TOUR OF THE NT: BREAKFAST PRESENTATION AND SITE TOUR OF THE Website: Residencewww.steelday.org Inn by Marriott Hotel Project RESIDENCE INN BY MARRIOTT HOTEL PROJECT AT 121 BROOKLINE AVENUE Date:

09/28/2012

Time/Length:

8:00 am EST, 5 hours

Location: 121 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215 N BY MARRIOTT HOTEL PROJECT AT 121 BROOKLINE AVENUE Food: Plated breakfast ASIC will host a breakfast presen-provided from building team members

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8:00 am EST, 5 hours 121 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215

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