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Earn professional development hours by watching any of our webinar series. Select from topics below, including floor systems, lateral loads, building retrofitting, roof design, special profiles and more.
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Connecting the Load Path: Chords and Collectors in Steel Deck Diaphragms
February
Diaphragms are the key structural elements used to transfer horizontal lateral forces to the vertical lateral resisting systems. This webinar will provide tools to help you understand diaphragm stiffness and how that stiffness relates to the distribution and transfer of those forces to the lateral resisting system. The load path of the diaphragm forces through chords, collectors, and the importance of the diaphragm connections to those elements will be reviewed. Finally, we will introduce online design tools that will help simplify the diaphragm design process.
2026 Live Webinar Series
Check out the 2026 live webinar series line-up. Topics include snow loads, storm shelters, steel joist and deck, special profiles, ponding, hybrid construction, building retrofit, and more.
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Updated Guidance for Safe Handling and Erection of Joists — Inside the New Edition of Technical Digest 9
Handling & Erection
2025 | The Steel Joist Institute’s Technical Digest 9: Handling and Erection of Steel Joists and Joist Girders was recently upda…
Welding In, On and Around Steel Joists (2025)
Welding
2025 | The welding of steel joists has taken many forms over the nearly 100-year history of the industry. Standardization has help…
SDI Tech Notes Live
Steel Deck
2025 | The Steel Deck Institute has a collection of Technical Notes that cover a multitude of topics. Some Tech Notes address freq…
Delegated Design – Friendly Collaboration
Other Specialties
2025 | This webinar will explore the overlapping areas of responsibility in the delegated design of structural steel elements incl…
What the Deck? Correctly Specifying Steel Deck
Steel Deck
2025 | There is more to steel deck than holding up a roof or a slab of concrete. While much of the time a traditional gravity load…
Designing High-Performance Floors With Open Web Steel Joists
Floors
2025 | Open web steel joists are used in high-performance floors to achieve superior design characteristics with less weight, lowe…
Vibration of Floors Supported by Open Web Steel Joists: Overview & Recent Innovations
Vibration
2025 | This session will cover AISC Design Guide 11 and SJI Technical Digest 5 guidance for evaluating vibration serviceability fo…
It’s Joist That Simple: System Design and Structural Reliability
Steel Deck, Structural Systems
2024 | Steel joist and deck can provide additional strength and serviceability to your structure. Several steel industry associati…
Guidance for Building Design Using Steel Joists
Engineering Practice
2024 | This webinar provides guidance to specifying professionals and joist manufacturers using open web steel joists and joist gi…
Connecting the Load Path: Diaphragms Are More Than Just Deck and Fasteners
Floors, Steel Deck
2024 | Open web steel joists and joist girders are often used to support the structure for steel deck and concrete floor diaphragm…
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