The Steel Encounters team wound up designing 9,700 sf of arched chord trusses and joists to match the exact profiles the architect wanted. “It was definitely more of a challenge doing it this way,” ...

Many renovated buildings replace wood and masonry structural elements with steel. The replacement of heavy wooden roof and floor joists with the lighter steel open-web bar-truss joists is a common ...

Q.The carpenter that built my deck used joist hangers to hold up the joists along the house and at the end of the deck. Are these steel joist hangers approved, and will they stand the test of time?

The Steel Joist Institute is now accepting entries for its 2009 Design Awards. The winning entries will be announced in November 2009 and the company with the winning project in each category will be ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- A construction worker was killed Tuesday when a steel joist intended for the green roof at the Barclays Center fell off and hit him. The worker, whose name has not been ...