Manufacturing desk
Green steel, advanced materials, prefabrication and the industrial processes upstream of every site — the manufacturing shifts that change what builders buy and how they prove what they built.
Green steel is shipping: hydrogen direct reduction moves from pilot plant to purchase order
SSAB delivered the world’s first fossil-free steel to Volvo in 2021; Stegra’s hydrogen steel plant is rising in northern Sweden. For construction — steel’s biggest customer — the embodied-carbon maths is about to change.
2 August 2026 · 7 min read
Mass timber’s high-rise proof: what 25 storeys of wood in Milwaukee actually demonstrated
Ascent — 86.6 metres, the world’s tallest timber-concrete hybrid when it opened in 2022 — settled the fire and code arguments in the hardest jurisdiction. The manufacturing story behind it matters as much as the tower.
2 August 2026 · 6 min read
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