Legal Insights expert Trent Cotney, partner with Adams & Reese, explains that roofing contractors seeking some economic stability may face challenges with new steel tariffs.
In this video, Legal Insights Expert Trent Cotney explores the impact of new steel tariffs and how roofing contractors face immigration enforcement at some unexpected places.
Aluminum and steel tariffs doubled on June 4, spiking prices 54 percent and straining construction budgets. Contractors face rising costs, labor shortages and shrinking margins amid the most aggressive trade stance in decades.
SFIA member Scottsdale Construction Systems provides a complete overview of the advantages of cold-formed steel framing over traditional framing methods in a new guide to modern construction.
SFIA member Scottsdale Construction Systems provides a complete overview of the advantages of CFS framing over traditional framing methods in a new guide to modern construction.
Gary Prinz, Ph.D., P.E., professor and director of the Grady E. Harvell Civil Engineering Research and Education Center at the University of Arkansas, was recently selected as the recipient of the 2024 Robert J. Dexter Memorial Award Lecture by the Steel Bridge Task Force of the American Iron and Steel Institute and presented his research — which is focused on fracture, fatigue and the service life of steel bridge structures — at a task force meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The Steel Bridge Task Force, which is comprised of the American Iron and Steel Institute, the National Steel Bridge Alliance, and the American Association of State and Highway Transportation Officials Steel and Metals Technical Committee, has named David Stoddard, senior steel applications engineer at SSAB Americas, as the recipient of the 2024 Alexander D. Wilson Memorial Award.