The American Institute of Steel Construction continues to drill downstream in the supply chain to ramp up e-commerce in the structural-steel sector. Though still pushing for the sharing of steel building information models between the engineer of record and the fabricator, AISC is greasing the wheels of digital automation by issuing a call for steel suppliers and producers to jump on the bandwagon of its electronic steel purchasing initiative.
"We need to advance this," said Matthew J. Gomez, national manager for construction solutions with supplier Gerdau and chairman of the AISC technical group working on the e-purchasing initiative, at AISC's 2015 North American Steel Construction Conference, held on March 25-28 in Nashville.