Jim Malley Wins AISC Best EJ Paper Competition
April 18, 2008 - San Francisco, California - The American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) announced Jim Malley as the winner of the Best EJ Paper of 2007 competition. His paper “The 2005 AISC Seismic Provisions for Structural Steel Buildings” was published in the first quarter 2007 issue of the AISC Engineering Journal. This paper was selected from the list of papers published in that Journal during 2007. Readers had the opportunity to send in their preferences by completing a survey posted on the AISC web site early this year. The award was presented during the 2008 NASCC: The Steel Conference, held in Nashville, Tennessee, April 2-5, 2008.
Jim Malley is a renowned expert in steel construction. His portfolio includes structural design, seismic evaluation, and seismic strengthening of existing buildings. Jim will soon ascend to the presidency of the National Council of Structural Engineers Associations in 2009 and serves as chair of the AISC’s International Seismic Steel Joint Action Group, accountable for sharing technical information and design developments on steel buildings subjected to earthquakes.
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.