Tagged: steel

The problem with reinforced concrete - Guest Work

Guest Work • Jun 20, 2016 •

• building,
• concrete,
• construction,
• design,
• rebar,
• steel

By Guy Keulemans, UNSW Australia By itself, concrete is a very durable construction material. The magnificent Pantheon in Rome, the world’s largest unreinforced concrete dome, is in excellent condition after nearly 1,900 years. And yet many concrete structures from last century – bridges, highways and buildings – are crumbling. Many concrete structures built this century will be … Read More

Did NZ Steel make windfall arbitrage profits from the ETS? - Hot Topic

Simon Johnson • Apr 28, 2016 •

• carbon credits,
• climate change,
• Environment and Ecology,
• golbal warming,
• steel

In the wake of the Morgan Foundations hard-hitting report “Climate Cheats”, Simon Johnson (aka Mr February) asks if New Zealand Steel received millions of emission units for free under the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme industrial allocation provisions and yet still bought millions of the dubious international Russian units (ERUs) to make windfall arbitrage profits. The Morgan Foundation’s latest report … Read More