The Australian Steel Institute (ASI) is the nation’s peak industry body representing the complete local steel supply chain from the mills right through to end users in building/construction, heavy engineering and manufacturing, all told one of the nation’s largest industry sectors employing around 100,000 Australians.
The ASI provides industry advocacy, marketing and technical leadership to promote responsible use of Australian-made steel in building/construction, resources and manufacturing industries. Most recently, it has underwritten the development of the nation’s first independently certified compliance scheme covering structural steelwork.
The ASI’s advocacy work encompasses policy engagement with national and state governments through formal briefings and correspondence with top officials and ministers, written submissions to major inquiries and close consultation with other industry bodies. ASI state managers regularly represent members’ interests to proponents of major projects, especially where the local industry has been unfairly bypassed. It is also active in promoting safe practice though a national awards program and stewardship of the steel industry’s logistics safety code of practice.
It markets steel as a building and construction material of choice to trades and the professional design community through case study presentation events, printed and online industry directories, promoting achievements through its biennial Steel Excellence Awards and documenting exemplary practice with feature articles in its national news magazine, Steel Australia and other trade media.
Its technical program takes in regular seminar series and specialist one-off workshops, ‘technote’ engineering updates, representation on relevant Standards Australia review committees, guest lectures by ASI managers as part of university level engineering courses and Steel Construction journal for members exploring specific technical issues.
The ASI also created independently assessed compliance programs covering steel sheds and environmental sustainability and most recently launched Australian’s National Structural Steelwork Compliance Scheme to which steel fabricators are progressively being certified.
It is headquartered in Sydney with state offices in Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane.
For more information go to: steel.org.au
