American Institute of Steel Construction

The American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), headquartered in Chicago, is a not-for-profit technical institute and trade association established in 1921 to serve the structural steel design community and construction industry in the United States. AISC’s mission is to make structural steel the material of choice by being the leader in structural-steel-related technical and market-building activities, including: specification and code development, research, education, technical assistance, quality certification, standardization, and market development. AISC has a long tradition of service to the steel construction industry providing timely and reliable information.

History

In the early 1900s there were a number of independently operated structural steel fabricator groups that were concerned with improving the disorganized climate in which they operated. They individually sought some means to establish a code of practice and ethics for the industry, and to promote the usage of steel for building and bridge construction. However, there was no defining event or organization that could establish a unified message.