SUPPLY CHAIN CONCERNS VIRGIN STEEL

Steel is a problematic material in this building. As we can see to the right, the ITUC for Steel shows a large number of source countries with a Freedom of Association score of 4.0. But what is more concerning is the considerable number of countries to the right of that in the chart with a Freedom of Association score of 5.0. Countries such as Thailand, South Korea, India, Pakistan, Guatemala, UAE, Egypt, and more are all possible nations that the steel could have been sourced from with a very high ITUC score. In terms of the GSI, there are some countries that the steel could have been sourced from with very high +5 GSI scores such as Greece, Malaysia, Belarus, Turkey, Thailand, and Pakistan. Steel for this project is a material of concern because the raw material sources are unknown and could partly be from these countries with very high GSI scores.