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International Project Highlight from Duisburg 🏗️: The low‑carbon future in Duisburg is being built on steel beams. Or rather, it is taking shape, construction started in early 2024 and is still in full swing on one of the world’s largest decarbonization projects.   After all, Germany’s steel industry produces not only raw materials but also a significant amount of emissions: around 30 percent of the country’s total industrial emissions come from it.   To reduce this figure, our client thyssenkrupp Steel is using hydrogen instead of coal as a reducing agent. With the new direct reduction plant, up to 3.5 million tonnes of CO₂ can be saved each year, equivalent to around seven percent of the total emissions of the German steel industry. The project site itself is also impressive in scale: covering an area roughly the size of 40 football fields, the new facility is being built near the power plant in Duisburg‑Walsum.   Across all trades, Drees & Sommer is supporting the project with planning and consulting services. In building design, our experts contribute to technical discussions and ensure quality assurance for plans and documentation, so that even during the construction phase, a transformation project of this scale already conserves resources.   By the way: because the required green hydrogen is still scarce, the new plant will initially operate using natural gas. Even so, it will already cut emissions by more than 5️⃣0️⃣ percent. One thing is certain: in the future, steel will be anything but inflexible. 🌱 Copyright: © thyssenkrupp Steel   #Decarbonization #Transformation #GreenHydrogen #Industry