Is steel the hardest material to design?

Stirring The Pot by HERA

Aug 31, 202646:24Business

In this episode of Stirring the Pot, Humans of Steel edition, we're having a kōrero (conversation) with Dr Charles Clifton, the civil engineer who started HERA's structural steel division in 1983 and has spent more than...

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