The Steel Institute of New York

12/02/2024

New Continuing Education:

Fit for Purpose, and Perhaps for a Paradigm Shift

01/11/2023

It's not too late to register for the 2023 Design Challenge to redesign an office tower for residential use! Prize: $15,000
https://metalsinconstruction.org/2023-design-brief/

05/07/2021

https://watch.eventive.org/adffvirtual/play/6033f444889c6e006a4a611f

Reserve your pass now to view Gateways to New York, a story about the great Swiss structural engineer Othmar H. Amman, who emigrated to New York in 1904 and redefined the art of bridge building in America.

02/12/2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/11/nyregion/leslie-robertson-dead.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage&fbclid=IwAR2KHjixv_MaFXIECBXMKY1CMvDAhsdwIjrMN0D87hEoYpKDMagDc4CB7mo

He remained proud of the towers, which stood long enough for thousands to escape on 9/11, but carried with him “a troubled heart.”

01/15/2021

Read about the complex coordination required to build Midtown's tallest-ever office tower, One Vanderbilt—

Visually aggressive and environmentally progressive, the new office tower overlooking Grand Central Terminal—a model of sustainable transit-oriented development, constructed under budget and ahead of schedule—looks beyond the COVID era to a day when East Midtown will thrum and thrive again. Writ...

12/04/2020

https://calendar.aiany.org/2020/12/11/book-talk-the-structure-of-skyscrapers-in-america-1871-1900/

*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program; please continue to register.*

11/02/2020

Our 2021 competition is live! Learn more about this year's theme, "Gaining Urban Space: Solving NY’s Affordable Housing Shortage":

The Metals in Construction magazine 2021 Design Challenge is a competition to generate ideas for creating an environment suitable for affordable rental housing over a portion of NYC’s Sunnyside Yard si...

07/16/2019

Read about how cities are adding valuable space by erecting steel platforms over rail yards in our most recent CE course for Architectural Record

Land-strapped cities are starting to erect massive steel overbuilds on top of rail yards to spur much-needed urban development

02/08/2019

The Urban Pathways Conference has been approved for AIA/CES 3.0 LU|HSW -- get your tickets now:

Urban environments are becoming overly reliant on automobiles. But the use of landscaped, elevated thoroughfares that encourage foot travel instead can reduce congestion and improve the overall experience of urban life. Across the world, cities have transformed underused roadways and abandoned railr...

01/25/2019