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2005 2006 ACSA AISC Aquatic Center Student Design Competition The American Institute of Steel Construction, headquartered in Chicago, is a nonprofit technical institute and trade association established in 1921 to serve the structural steel design community and construction industry in the United States. AISC's mission is to make structural steel the material of choice by being the leader in structural steel-related technical and market-building activities, including specification and code development, research, education, technical assistance, quality certification, standardization, and market development. AISC has a long tradition of more than 80 years of service to the steel construction industry providing timely and reliable information.

The requirements of the Rules apply to steel vessels of all welded construction. Riveted construction, where used, is to comply with the applicable parts dealing with riveting in the 1969 edition of the Rules.

The corporation embarked on a shipbuilding program larger than the world had ever known. By the time the United States entered the war there was considerable activity in the existing yards; 431 steel merchant vessels, totaling 3.068,431 deadweight tons, were under construction on July 11, 1917, the day the president requisitioned all steel merchantmen.