Career Path Planning is an important exercise that all firms should employ to better understand and document the strengths, weaknesses, and seniority of individual staff members and the depth of talent within the firm on a holistic level. This allows the firm to identify future recruiting needs as well as strengths and weaknesses within the current staff.
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Structural steel is already the gold standard for rapid erection. But what if we could make it even faster? The American Institute of Steel Construction is offering $5,000 for up to three great ideas to revolutionize steel floor beam connections. Your back-of-the-napkin, so-crazy-it-just-might-work concept could become the next revolutionary, non-proprietary connection system!
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Nucor Corporation (NYSE: NUE) announced today the launch of Econiq™, a line of net-zero carbon steel products. Building the green economy and the necessary infrastructure requires clean, advanced steel products. By introducing Econiq, Nucor is providing confidence for steel consumers to know they are purchasing the lowest greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions steel product available. A first of its kind at scale for the United States steel industry, Econiq will be available across Nucor’s steelmaking product lines, the broadest and most diversified offerings in the U.S. market.
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The NCSEA Structural Engineering Summit has a long history of bringing the structural engineering community together to network, learn, and celebrate the successes of our profession. It would have been difficult for the Summit to deliver on that purpose in October as originally planned. As a result, NCSEA has postponed the Summit – both the live event in New York and the virtual event – to February of 2022.
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Thank you, SEI Futures Fund Donors, for investing in the future of structural engineering! Your gifts make possible these strategic initiatives totaling more than $250,000, approved by the Futures Fund Board for FY2022:
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The International Code Council, the world’s largest developer of model building codes and standards, today announced the publication of a new educational resource on electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure and building codes titled Electric Vehicles and Building Codes: A Strategy for Greenhouse Gas Reductions. This is the first in a series of resources set to be published with the aim of supporting communities in achieving greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction goals in a safe and efficient manner.
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MAPEI’s Planiseal CR1 has been awarded SCS Indoor Advantage Gold certification by SCS Global Services, an independent, ISO-accredited, third-party certification body, which employs testing by an industry-independent laboratory. “Contractors tell us that they love working with Planiseal CR1 because it is simple to use and non-hazardous,” explained Harold Hays, MAPEI’s Technical Services Manager for Waterproofing. “Now those results have been validated by an independent, third-party objective organization.”
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