December 2004

All Shook Up
By Hillary A. Lichtenstein
What if merely tapping your foot was enough to make your entire office floor vibrate? It happened in a 30-year-old office building in Voorhees, NJ. (110 KB)

La Macarena
By Mauricio Gutiérrez Villa
This South American bullfighting arena was renovated to include a partially retractable structural steel roof system. (115 KB)

Simply Serene
By Seth Wolfe, P.E., and Matthys Levy, P.E.
Structural steel creates a clean-lined folded plate roof for an idyllic residence in beautiful Aspen, CO. (148 KB)

Star Attraction
By Chris Chaseling
In Sydney, Australia, the new Latitude at World Square building steals the show. (198 KB) For the orignal paper from the 2004 North American Steel Construction Conference/Pacific Structural Steel Conference, AISC ePubs subscribers can click here. (2.5 MB Adobe Acrobat PDF file)

Steel Products

SteelWise: Anchor Rods
By Dan Swiatek and Emily Whitbeck with contributions from
Many common anchor rod problems are easier to avoid than you think! (112 KB)