Concrete in Practice series

The Concrete Centre is pleased to launch a new series of online events: Concrete in Practice. The aim of the series is to share learning and progress being made using concrete today. The first set of projects featured in the series are focused on decarbonisation of concrete in practice.

What differentiates this set of case study-based events is that all the projects featured are still in progress. The intention is to capture and share the insights, experiences and advancements being made on site or in factories today, to help facilitate and accelerate the use of lower carbon concrete.  

The aim is for each event to include presentions by members of the project’s design and construction team, providing a description of the challenges and solutions for the design, specification and construction when achieving carbon reductions in contemporary concrete projects.

Events will take place live, online, and will provide ample opportunity for attendees to ask questions. Each event will be recorded providing a valuable resource for attending on demand. Events will count towards CPD for construction professionals and are free to attend.

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Concrete in Practice: Decarbonisation at One North Quay, London

Recorded: Tuesday 10 June

Webinars within the Concrete in Practice series aim to share learning and progress being made using concrete today, with project team presentations from buildings currently on-site.

This first event in the series focused on learning from One North Quay, an under-construction skyscraper laboratory (the first in Britain) which is working towards achieving ambitious embodied carbon budgets.

Steve Brown and Simon Banfield from Ramboll reflected on how sustainability ambitions are being realised at One North Quay. The project is due to save ~20,000 tCO2e; and the presentation discusses how an innovative approach to the construction stages of the project through initiatives such as early collaboration across the design team and effective measurement and reporting can serve this and future projects in reducing carbon. View recording now.

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Concrete in Practice: Reducing carbon emissions at Bristol’s Temple Quarter

Recorded: Monday 15 September

This event focused on how early collaboration in the design stage and engagement with supply chain partners is enabling Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus to achieve a 25% reduction in embodied carbon. 

The design team held collaborative sessions which looked to reduce the embodied carbon intensity of the works whilst limiting cost, programme and quality implications. The team worked closely together to improve material efficiency, and optimise the total cementitious content of each mix design and substituting Portland cement for GGBS, where feasible. 

All proposed concrete mixes were assessed against the Lower Carbon Concrete Group’s (LCCG) benchmark rating scheme with the project team aiming to score as much ‘B’ rated (or better) concrete as possible.

Ian Fiebelkorn, from Buro Happold and Alex McMullin, from Sir Robert McAlpine will discuss how collaboration was undertaken and successfully seen through to a completed concrete frame on site. View recording now.

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