The Liddiard Talk - The High-Stakes Problem of Steel Pollution
Add to calThe Mine, IOM3 - The Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining, 297 Euston Road, London NW1 3AD
Speaker - Sir Harry Bhadesia
Steel underpins modern life, from infrastructure and transport to food production, yet our global consumption has reached an unsustainable scale, driving irreversible environmental pollution.
In this lecture, Professor Harry Bhadeshia will present a realistic pathway to significantly reduce steel usage within the next four years, without compromising quality of life or imposing damaging constraints on industry.
Drawing on real construction projects, engineering principles, and recent events including the collision of ships in March 2025, the talk will explore how smarter design approaches such as slim floor construction and tuned mass dampers can deliver dramatic materials savings. The lecture also examines what may be the largest unintended experiment ever conducted, now validating a long standing hypothesis.
The talk concludes with an unexpected link between steel efficiency and a remarkable feat of human endurance, connecting structural engineering to an ascent of the Taipei 101 skyscraper, and revealing why this story matters for the future of sustainable design
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