Structural steel design generates a lot of excitement. Six Lakehead University engineering students found it as the first all-women team to win a bridge-building competition. Artist John McEwen found it when he married art and function to create Calgary’s new Ram’s Horn sculpture. Architectural students find it exploring case studies of recent major Canadian steel projects found on the new Steel Structures Education Foundation (SSEF) CD. On this CD they learn how these great steel projects were conceived, designed, fabricated and erected. The designers of new multi-storey office buildings found it in the advantages of steel as the material of choice for the high-tech requirements of the owners. This issue of Advantage Steel documents this excitement and will hopefully excite you as to the benefits of steel construction.
Michael I. Gilmor, P.Eng. editor