Interested parties have until May 16 to comment on the final draft of the 2016 Code of Standard Practice for Structural Steel Buildings and Bridges, which the American Institute of Steel Construction Inc. plans to release this fall. In a first, the practice code, named AISC 303-16, will be an American National Standard.
“The ANSI-certified code is intended to protect structural engineers, owners, fabricators and erectors” during disputes over steel contracts, said David B. Ratterman, AISC’s outside counsel and a member of Stites & Harbison PLLC, at AISC’s North American Steel Construction Conference, held April 13-15, in Orlando. AISC 303-16 “cannot be changed without a rigorous consensus process,” he added.