SFIA elected two new officers and appointed four directors to its board during the 2025 Annual Meeting in Charlotte, N.C., reflecting the association’s continued focus on advancing the cold-formed steel framing industry.
SFIA elected two new officers and appointed four directors to its board during the 2025 Annual Meeting in Charlotte, N.C., reflecting the association’s continued focus on advancing the cold-formed steel framing industry.
Gary Prinz, Ph.D., P.E., professor and director of the Grady E. Harvell Civil Engineering Research and Education Center at the University of Arkansas, was recently selected as the recipient of the 2024 Robert J. Dexter Memorial Award Lecture by the Steel Bridge Task Force of the American Iron and Steel Institute and presented his research — which is focused on fracture, fatigue and the service life of steel bridge structures — at a task force meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Renee Ann Conrad Cieslikowski, 70, of Lake Wylie, South Carolina, passed away peacefully this October in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her husband, Mark, by her side. Many Walls & Ceilings readers knew her through her lengthy tenure at National Gypsum as its marketing manager before her retirement several years ago.
Trent Cotney marvels at the American College of Building Arts in Charleston, a hands-on college which sees its students reach exceptional heights within the building community.
On Oct. 7, IIBEC sent a letter to the mayor and city council of Wilmington, North Carolina, recommending that they consider establishing a building façade inspection program in light of two recent building failures.