Case Studies

There are now an abundance of case studies on the This is Concrete website, www.thisisconcrete.co.uk 

• Innovate Green Office, Leeds
  The prestigious new headquarters for the Home Office, provides 74,544 m2 office space for approximately 3,000 staff with associated sports, restaurant, library facilities and basement car parking.
• The Shard
  Consisting of 87 levels and 310 metres high, the Shard did not wait for its foundations before it started to push skywards.
• Strata
  Not content with grabbing the headlines as being the highest residential development in central London, Strata SE1 caps this with having three wind turbines constructed within the fabric of the building.
• Montgomery School
  A new primary school in Exeter aims to be the UK's first zero-carbon school
• Park Hill, Sheffield
  Park Hill, the residential development that dominates the skyline of Sheffield, is undergoing a major refurbishment.
• Darwin Centre Phase II
  Winner of the Institution of Structural Engineers’ Award for Arts or Entertainment Structures, Danish architect CF Moller’s stunning-sprayed concrete pod protects the Natural History Museum’s 20 million dry insect and plant specimens, provides a working area for research scientists and enables the public to interact with the scientists and the collection.
• Maggies Centre
  Maggie's Centre, London, a cancer care centre designed by Richard Rogers' practice Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners, is winner of the 2009 RIBA Stirling Prize.
• Chessington College, Kingston-upon-Thames
  A precast concrete structural frame was chosen for the teaching block at Chessington Community College, a 'one-school pathfinder' project for the Royal Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames.
• Institute of Arable Crops Research
  The Institute of Arable Crops Research carry out world leading research into plant-based agriculture, with the objective of achieving improvements in rural and agricultural economies across the world that are financially, economically and socially sustainable.
• Jubilee Library, Brighton
  Constructing a building with the sustainability credentials of Brighton's feted Jubilee Library need not be complicated. Even more importantly, such a landmark building need not be expensive either. Paul Russell investigates.

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