Environmental advocacy group Mighty Earth’s call to action to reduce the carbon footprint of structural-steel production is well intended but naive, say construction and steel-sector firms.
We’re wearing out the planet as well as our water, energy and transit systems, according to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s Dec. 3 report, “Environmental Engineering for the 21st Century.”
An independent panel of experts in steel structures, fracture mechanics and metallurgy is reviewing every step taken by the Transbay Joint Powers Authority team investigating the cause of two cracked girders at the Salesforce Transit Center in San Francisco.
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