2016 Prequalified Moment Connections Standard Draft Available for Public Review

(Chicago, IL) - The current draft of the 2016 AISC Prequalified Connections for Special and Intermediate Steel Moment Frames for Seismic Applications is available for public review starting March 27, 2015 until May 11, 2015 on the AISC website. This is an update of the 2010 version of the standard and its 2011 and 2014 supplements.

The draft prequalified moment connections standard and a comment form are available for download at https://www.aisc.org/publicreview. Photocopies are available for a $35 copying and mailing fee; please contact 312.670.5411 for further information.

Please submit comments using the comment form provided online to Keith Grubb, Manager of Technical Information, at [email protected]. The deadline for submitting comments is May 11, 2015.

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For more information contact:

Dani Friedland
Director of Communications
773.636.8535
[email protected]

American Institute of Steel Construction

The American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), a not-for-profit technical institute supported by the steel industry, partners with the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) community to develop safe and efficient steel specifications and codes while driving innovation to make steel the most sustainable, economic, and resilient structural material. For more than a century, AISC has been a reliable resource for information and advice on the design and construction of domestically fabricated structural steel buildings and bridges.