Sustainability Series: Design and specification interventions to save carbon using concrete (Week 2)

Recorded:Thursday 02 October 2025
Presented by:Emily Halliwell, The Concrete Centre; Joe Roach, Thornton Tomasetti; Jack Burvill, Laing O'Rourke
CPD:1 hours

 
High levels of GGBS and a lean ribbed-slab structure have helped to reduced embodied carbon by 30% at Tatehindle’s admirably restrained HQ for the Salvation Army. Image: Jack Hobhouse.

There are many opportunities to make carbon savings throughout the design and specification of a concrete frame and this webinar highlights key interventions that can reduce carbon. Speakers share their experiences of working with project teams and clients to achieve carbon reductions through specification and design interventions on a wide range of schemes.