InfraStructures - August 2011 - NASCC Proceedings Available

NASCC Proceedings Available

While there is no substitution for attending NASCC: The Steel Conference in person, AISC offers the next best thing. As a benefit for attendees and members, audio is taped and synchronized with the speakers' PowerPoint presentations. The recorded sessions are then posted online at www.aisc.org/2011nascconline.

Why does AISC do this? The Steel Conference is a bit different from other conferences. While most conferences issue a call for papers, consider abstracts, and then select those who will present a paper, The Steel Conference takes a different approach. The planning committee selects topics and then seeks out the top experts on those topics. As a result, we do not require our presenters to produce papers. Instead, our proceedings are an actual documentation of the material presented at the conference. AISC then makes much of this material available at no charge as part of its mission to disseminate information that makes it easier to design and build with structural steel.

Next year, for the first time ever, The Steel Conference is co-locating with the World Steel Bridge Symposium in Dallas April 18-21, 2012. Find out more about the 2012 NASCC at www.aisc.org/nascc.

Source: American Institute of Steel Construction