At the 828-meter summit of Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, 3mm-thick self-healing steel membranes withstand the desert sun’s scorching rays. In the depths of Norway’s fjords, 20,000 tons of corrosion-resistant steel frame the world’s first subsea data center. From Xiong’an New Area’s 40-meter-deep smart utili
As night falls, the helical silhouette of Shanghai Tower dissolves into the clouds, while the spire of Dubai’s Burj Khalifa pierces the heavens—humanity is scripting legends of modern engineering with steel as its pen. Super-tall steel structures are no longer mere occupiers of physical space; they