Surface Design Show 7th - 9th Feb, Business Design Centre, London

The Surface Design Show is the must-attend event for architects, interior designers and specifiers looking for innovative surface solutions for the built environment.

The Concrete Centre will be hosting two seminars as part of the ‘Fringe Thinking’ programme. These are:

Form, finish, texture and colour, on Wednesday 8 February at 1.00pm in the Working Portraits Theatre. Roger Meyer, Patel Taylor Architects, will present on bespoke cladding and creation of unique facades for the Athletes Village, London. Elaine Toogood, The Concrete Centre, will speak on achieving a variety of forms, finishes, textures and colours with concrete.

Low carbon concrete, on Thursday 9 February at 1.00pm in the Working Portraits Theatre. John Orr, Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, University of Bath, will present on fabric formwork - inspiring, extraordinary forms using materially-efficient concrete structure. Elaine Toogood, The Concrete Centre, will speak on low carbon concrete and exploring the sustainability of concrete with guidance on low carbon specification.

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Surface Design Show

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The Concrete Centre is the central development organisation for the UK concrete industry. Our aim is to enable all those involved in the design, use and performance of concrete to realise the full potential of concrete.

The Concrete Centre is part of the Mineral Products Association, the trade association for the aggregates, asphalt, cement, concrete, lime, mortar and silica sand industries.