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Canada’s voice for the steel construction industry, providing leadership in sustainable design and construction, efficiency, quality and innovation.

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Live Webinars and Events

  • Innovative Systems Used to Improve Seismic Performance in Steel Buildings

    October 27, 2021 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
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  • Handsworth Secondary School – A Class Act in North Vancouver, BC

    Thursday October 21, 2021 @ 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
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  • The Canadian Steel Conference

    September 27-29, 2022
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CISC Steel Store

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Courses

For additional information on CISC’s courses, view our cutting-edge course catalogue to help you excel in your career today!

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Seismic
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Budgeting Steel Structures

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Featured Project

The Upper Fort Garry Heritage Wall – Upper Fort Garry, Winnipeg

Upper Fort Garry was the first major building construction on the prairies and the anchor of the thriving commerce of western Canada. The Fort stood for sixty years, when it was almost demolished (the original gateway is still standing).

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Membership

Join the CISC and connect with a rich set of resources, tools and expertise designed to advance your business all while collaborating with top industry leaders.

Courses

CISC Courses offer a wide variety of self-paced and live online webinars for steel professionals, practising engineers and architects. Through a combination of training and assessments, CISC Courses are designed to provide the right competencies to develop advanced skills and knowledge in every steel profession.

Publications

Steel publications & apps. CISC publishes leading publications on structural steel design. Know how to do more and get more returns with leading publications on steel design in construction, written and published by the CISC.

Certification

CISC quality certification programs offer owners, engineers, specifiers and construction teams the framework to partner with steel fabricators that have a demonstrated track record of consistently delivering the highest quality standards on their projects.

Accreditation

The CISC offers two accreditation programs that are unique to the steel construction industry. These accreditations distinguish an elite network of industry professionals who have reinforced their expertise in steel fabrication and installation.

Foundation

CISC uses scholarships, competitions, research funding, centres of excellence and educator support programs at Canadian schools of Engineering and Architecture to engage and help prepare the next generation of decision makers.

Why Steel?

High Performance

The versatility of steel gives architects and engineers the freedom to achieve their most ambitious visions, and provides contractors with a highly engineered, high-quality building material.

Lower Costs

There is evidence in the field and through third party case studies and comparative cost studies that steel building systems offer significant cost benefits over competitive building materials when the total cost of construction is considered.

Most Sustainable

Steel’s inherent green attributes, performance features, and its cradle-to-cradle life cycle make it one of the most sustainable construction materials on the planet.

Unparalleled Safety

Steel is a non-combustible material and consequently does not burn, provide an ignition source or add fuel load that would enable a fire to spread or grow into a catastrophic event.

Testimonials

The “CISC Steel Structures Certification” is a market differentiator in a crowded field of competitors. The certification provides our clients with the comfort of third party validation, certifying that we are knowledgeable and experienced in the building of structures and that we follow the relevant codes and standards in the execution of our work.
Walter Koppelaar, CEO & Chairman, Walters Group Inc.
As a CISC certified bridge fabricator, it sets us apart as specialists with the in-depth knowledge, experience and equipment required to fabricate steel bridges to the relevant codes and standards. Our customers are delighted the CISC has taken the lead in creating a world-class certification programme specific to the fabrication of steel bridges in Canada. It provides them the confidence they demand that their bridges will be fabricated by experts to the highest quality standards.
Paul King, MS, P.Eng., VP Engineering, Rapid-Span Group
I appreciate the effort that CISC takes to vet and certify high quality Members. When we put out a tender to the market, we specify the companies that are CISC certified when we can. It gives me peace of mind knowing that when we entrust a project to a Quality Certified CISC Member, we can expect a high level of consistency and quality where safety is paramount.
Terry Wilk, M.Eng., P.Eng., Principal, Stantec Consulting Ltd.