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

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

This event focuses 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,  Alex McMullin and Harry Jenner from Sir Robert McAlpine and David McLeod of Toureen discuss how collaboration was undertaken and successfully seen through to a completed concrete frame on site.