Photo by Jeff Yoders/ENR Purdue University’s Amit Verma shares the latest testing results on Fast Floor at NASCC 2026. New research and development of structural steel construction methods was the primary focus of the North American Steel Construction conference, held April 22 to 24 in Atlanta. But the nearly 7,000 attendees of the annual American Institute of Steel Construction event also found that advances in artificial intelligence came up again and again in sessions with fabricators, design engineers and architects. Fast Floor, the steel floor system designed for the Speed Core building core system, now is nearing the end of its testing phase, said institute President Charlie Carter. “What we are testing now as a second phase is the connection of a beam to a girder with the same sort of drop-in connection, which is a little bit different than it would be to a column,” he said.…