Insights

Notes on steel and African growth.

Short essays for owners, engineers, and partners. Also available as an RSS feed.

Steel for the African city

African city-building this century will be decided by reinforcing bar, structural sections, and whether mill lots can be trusted.

Mills, merchants, fabricators, and contractors can keep more steel value on the continent instead of shipping it away as finished goods.

Salt air, harmattan dust, tropical rain, and Sahel heat are not edge cases. They are the design climate of this continent.