Joe Penepent, P.E. (joe.penepent@newmill.com) is a Sales Engineer for New Millennium Building Systems.
Construction projects, big and small, have phases. What happens during the early phases can dictate how smoothly the project will go and how much it will cost in the end. Consulting early with the steel joist supplier can help prevent delays and cost overruns by avoiding commonly made early-phase mistakes. …
Steel joist and deck systems are already an efficient means of construction, but there are ways an engineer can design these systems more efficiently and cost effectively. Techniques include designing support framing to maximize deck strength utilization, selecting seat sizes to accommodate long joist top chord extensions, …