Simpson Strong-Tie is sponsoring The Tech Challenge 2015, an annual team design challenge for children in grades 4-12 presented by The Tech Museum of Innovation.
Simpson Strong-Tie recently hosted two day-long field trips for 60 middle- and high-school girls in the Santa Clara County Unified School District’s GAINS program.
Simpson Strong-Tie announced that Roger Dankel will be the president of North America Sales and Ricardo Arevalo will be chief operating officer (COO) effective July 1.
The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon was held Oct. 3-13 in Irvine, Calif. Local Simpson Strong-Tie facilities provided product donations to several collegiate teams competing in the decathlon to design, build and operate cost-effective solar-powered houses.
As Colorado begins work on recovering from the recent catastrophic flooding that struck several counties, including Boulder, Larimer, Jefferson and Weld County, Simpson Strong-Tie announced it will make a $10,000 donation to assist in the relief response and recovery efforts throughout the area.
Simpson Strong-Tie has recently added many free web and mobile apps and online calculators, giving customers quick access to product information and tools that result in time and cost savings.
As part of the NEES-Soft project led by Colorado State University, Simpson Strong-Tie and other industry collaborators successfully completed earthquake testing of a Simpson Strong-Tie Strong Frame® special moment frame seismic retrofit of a four-story building during several days of testing from July 24 to August 5 at the University of California San Diego.