AISI reaccredited as an American National Standards Developer

Washington, D.C. — The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) has been reaccredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) under its recently revised operating procedures for documenting consensus on AISI-sponsored American National Standards. The revised procedures, which are posted here, replace the previous version that was approved in March 2014.

Jay Larson, P.E., F.ASCE, managing director, AISI Construction Technical Program, said, “AISI is committed to fairness, transparency and performance in our efforts to ensure steel’s competitiveness in the marketplace. We appreciate the ongoing support that ANSI provides by establishing its essential requirements for due process and in reaccrediting AISI as a developer of American National Standards for the design and construction of cold-formed steel.”

AISI has been involved in the support of research and the development and maintenance of cold-formed steel codes, standards and specifications for 85 years. It sought ANSI accreditation and was approved as a developer of American National Standards in 1999. AISI serves as Secretariat for two standards-developing committees:

1) the Committee on Specifications, which covers the broad range of cold-formed steel structural member behavior and design for building construction, and

2) the Committee on Framing Standards, which focuses on light-frame steel construction system behavior and design. These two committees facilitate a volunteer force of over 200 active participants through numerous subcommittees and task groups to develop and maintain a suite of nearly 30 design, installation and test standards, design guides and manuals.

The mission of AISI’s Codes and Standards team is to ensure that codes and standards for steel construction reflect state-of-the-art industry practices, are technically sound, permit the proper and safe use of steel, promote the recognition of concepts favorable to steel, and ensure that stakeholders have steel as a material of choice.

AISI’s codes and standards work is conducted under the Construction Market Council of the Steel Market Development Institute (SMDI), a business unit of AISI, which oversees the industry’s investment in advancing the competitive use of steel by meeting the demands of the marketplace. For more information on SMDI’s Construction Market program, visit www.buildusingsteel.org. Follow SMDI Construction on Twitter @BuildUsingSteel.