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At just 12,000 sq ft, a glass structure is rising in suburban Broadview, outside Chicago, where future occupants will be repeatedly raising up glass curtain walls inside the building. The training ...

It looks like it could be sitting on the campus of any number of major universities across the country, but this sleek, glass-lined educational building is far from the conventional teaching space: It ...

ST. LOUIS — More construction cones and cranes are popping up around the City of St. Louis. The lead trainer with Iron Workers Union 396 Construction Training School in west St. Louis says companies ...

Two of the three union ironworkers who died on the job last year had used fall protection equipment that failed because it was not applied correctly, said Eric Dean, general president of the ...

WHEELING, W.Va. — An historic allocation from the Appalachian Regional Commission will provide funds for a number of projects across West Virginia. The Ironworkers Union is among the many ...

Kenny Smigle, business agent for Ironworkers Local 549, announced plans Wednesday for a $3.5 million expansion at the union’s training facility in Center Wheeling. (Photo by Eric Ayres) WHEELING — ...

The ironworkers who helped build Chicago’s iconic skyline and brought the design of “The Bean” to life are getting a new training facility in Broadview. Ironworkers Local 63, a union which represents ...

From launch towers at Cape Canaveral to roller coasters at Central Florida’s theme parks, skilled ironworkers have been building some of the region’s most iconic structures for decades.